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We just finished up our final semester at NTM’s Missionary Training Center in Missouri, and have made it back to the great state of Texas (and yes, Hudson knows full well by now that TX is God’s country). Depending on when our visas can be processed, we expect to leave sometime between April and NovemberContinue reading “Movin’ Along”

This semester – our last here at NTM’s Missionary Training Center in Missouri – we are taking the Linguistics Course. It’s an intense course involving studying the ins and outs of analyzing obscure, unwritten languages, so that in the village we eventually end up in, we will be able to put the unwritten language intoContinue reading “Last Semester in MO”

Happy Birthday to the Sweetest little boy I know! These past three years have been a priceless treasure, and I am overwhelmed and honored that God has entrusted this precious, precious kid to Jim and me.   Hudson enjoyed celebrating the day with many dear friends. (That is, in addition to the other two b-day parties he hasContinue reading “Three!”

“You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.”  Psalm 56:8  As excited as we were to meet our new little one this Fall, there’s been a sad change of events. I truly believe we will one day meet this precious child, but we will have to waitContinue reading “Heartbreak”

It’s just a few days before we head back to Missouri, and we’re loving all the time with family!       Next week we’ll head back to MO to continue our training at NTM’s Missionary Training Center. If all goes according to plan, we’ll finish our training in the Fall of this year, andContinue reading “Happy New Year in Texas”

We’re enjoying a couple of weeks in Texas during our Christmas break. Here are a few pics from our time in Clyde with Rachel’s family. We’ll soon head to Dallas for the rest of our time here.       Wishing you and yours a very happy New Year!

After two weeks of “Simple Living” (a class/experience here at the Missionary Training Center) here are some pics! I have jokingly accused Jim before of being addicted to the internet, but after two weeks of no internet, for me meaning no email, food network, facebook, cnn, etc,  I can pretty confidently say I was a potContinue reading “Living Not-So-Simply”

One of the things we’re studying right now is genealogies and kinship systems. It may sound boring, but it’s actually quite fascinating to see how different cultures view their kin so vastly differently than we do. Virtually every culture uses one of six different kinship systems. The way a culture views/organizes their kin greatly affectsContinue reading “Kinship”

We just completed a class called Phonemics. No doubt you’ve heard of phonetics, which has to do with the different sounds in a language. Phonemics also involves the different sounds in a language, but it has more to do with the analysis and classification of those sounds. You probably don’t care about all the detailsContinue reading “Phone-what?”