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\"Vic<\/a><\/p>\n

First the good news:<\/strong>  Our leadership team has asked me to make a slight change of ministry. I will still be teaching but on a different subject – linguistic analysis. Our normal course at the Missionary Training Center is 1½ years but about 10 % of our student body stay for more advanced training in how to develop an alphabet and study grammar patterns in an unwritten language. I will be teaching a class of about 10 students for 5 hours a day for a full semester. The following semester I will accompany those same students to Oklahoma to coach them while they do a 9-week practicum studying the Cherokee language. For the most part I am excited and looking forward to this new challenge. However, it has been many years since I have studied these principles and have a huge task ahead of me as I prepare to teach.<\/p>\n

Now for the "bad" news:<\/strong> Just over 2 weeks ago I woke up seeing some things in my left eye that shouldn’t have been there. After examining my eye the specialist told me that the retina was torn in 2 places and that I needed laser surgery to prevent detachment. He also told me that I was not allowed to read or drive or do much of anything that required moving my eyes for 2 weeks.  Although the laser work is healing well there is still cloudiness and a large floater in the center of my vision. The doctor says that the cloudiness is common and that it often clears up in a number of weeks. So far it seems to be about the same. Please pray that it will clear up and that I will be patient as I wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some might call it a “good news and bad news” situation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/vic-labutes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/vic-labutes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/vic-labutes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/vic-labutes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/vic-labutes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/vic-labutes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/vic-labutes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/vic-labutes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}