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I\u2019m so excited! No, I haven\u2019t been given permission to return to My Country. But at least I get to go back to other countries in West Africa for a month, leaving in less than a week! I get to spend a week in a big city, getting visas and connecting with other missionaries there that I haven\u2019t seen for a few years. I\u2019m so looking forward to catching up with them! I\u2019ll also meet new missionaries who arrived on the field after my last time there, and then I\u2019ll get to put faces to names.<\/p>\n

Then I plan on going on a People Group Assessment (PGA) trip in other countries in West Africa. Our goal? Visiting villages of the N people group and trying to figure out whether they still speak their language or have abandoned it for a trade language.<\/p>\n

Why is that important? Well, if they still speak their language, it would be important to send missionaries to work with them so that they can hear the amazing news about what Jesus has done for them. (They won\u2019t be celebrating Easter this year.) And if they don\u2019t still speak their language but only speak a trade language, then the new question will be whether or not it looks like the gospel could reach them through Christians who already speak that language, or whether it would still be important to send in missionaries. I\u2019m so glad that those decisions aren\u2019t ones I need to make; our job is to find the information and pass it along to others.<\/p>\n

After the PGA trip, on my way back to the US, I get a multi-day layover in Paris \u2013 a few to be a tourist, and a few to attend a linguistics conference about discourse analysis in West African languages. If you don\u2019t know what that means, don\u2019t worry. It just means that I get to hang out with, learn from, and interact with other nerds who are interested in the same kinds of things I am for a few days!<\/p>\n

As I plan on being gone for a month, I really appreciate your prayers. I\u2019ll be sure to let you know how it went when I get back, though I\u2019ll only be back to this \u201chome\u201d for a week before I\u2019m off on my next adventure that I\u2019ll tell you about later.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m so excited! No, I haven\u2019t been given permission to return to My Country. But at least I get to go back to other countries in West Africa for a month, leaving in less than a week! I get to spend a week in a big city, getting visas and connecting with other missionaries there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448],"class_list":{"0":"post-1427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-ethnos360","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}