{"id":288,"date":"2012-10-10T11:11:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=288"},"modified":"2021-12-06T19:58:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:58:14","slug":"have-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2012\/10\/10\/have-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Patience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patience.\u00a0 It’s hard sometimes, isn’t it?\u00a0 Especially when you know that what you’re having to be patient for is really important!<\/em>\u00a0 But sometimes that’s what God asks us to do.\u00a0 Here are two ways I’m going to have to practice patience before I’ll be able to move into the tribal village to start to translate the Bible into their language:<\/p>\n

1. Recently I had thought that I’d be leaving for My Country at the beginning of January.\u00a0 But now that may\u00a0<\/em>be delayed until the middle of February.\u00a0 The missionaries already over there have to do a lot of work to get ready for my arrival\u00a0and may not be able to get to it until then.\u00a0 I may be able to buy tickets this month and once the tickets are bought I’ll know when I’m leaving.\u00a0 But until then it changes regularly, so who knows.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

2. My first several months will be in the big city.\u00a0 There, I’ll be learning more French, learning the culture (way of life), and connecting with a local African church.\u00a0 But by the time I’m done with all that, my teammates who will be moving into the tribal village with me likely won’t be done yet.\u00a0 So I’ll have to be patient again as I wait for them to catch up.\u00a0 The great part is that I get to do something really fun during that time of waiting.\u00a0 Ok, it’s only fun if you’re me, I think, but I’m excited about it.\u00a0 Here’s what the New Tribes leadership told me about these plans for the 6 months to a year that I may be waiting for teammates:<\/p>\n

“We want to remember your desire to do linguistics and so we feel that it would be very helpful if we were to get a much clearer understanding on the dynamics and needs in the southwest region of My Country. . . . [W]e feel that . . . it would be profitable if you could do some in-depth study of the languages of that area in order to help define a long-term strategy for the various groups there. We are thinking of something along the lines of a thorough survey of each language. . . . We believe that the linguistic training that you received . . . and your personal desire to be involved in language analysis lend themselves to this pressing need for clear, reliable and up-to-date information of what is happening in the region as far as discerning patterns and relatedness of languages, etc is concerned.”<\/p>\n

Basically what that means is that I’ll get to work with the people groups New Tribes believes need missionaries, each for a few weeks.\u00a0 I’ll learn the basics of their language, figure out the basics of how it works, figure out how it compares to other languages, and then get to move on to the next one.\u00a0 Sound fun?\u00a0 Yes!!<\/p>\n

Thanks for being patient with me and watching God’s plan unfold.\u00a0 I’m glad He’s the One in charge.\u00a0 Aren’t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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