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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?”

After a great time in Texas, we’re happy to be back at NTM’s Missionary Training Center in Missouri for our second year of training here. Our first classes this semester will include Phonemics and Literacy, two of the many classes we have taken or will take that will help equip us to learn an unwrittenContinue reading “Ready to Hit the Books Again”

We had a great year at the NTM Missionary Training Center in Missouri, and are now in Texas for the Summer. We are looking forward to hanging out and catching up with friends and family! We’ll be in College Station for most of June, in Dallas the first couple weeks of July, and in AbileneContinue reading “Summer in Tejas”

What a blessing today was! Sid, representing Clearfork Baptist, drove all the way up to deliver a gift and offer words of encouragement. We are so grateful that the Father has allowed us to be a part of this thing called the Body of Christ.

Often people ask us if we are learning language right now in our training.  The short answer is “No.” The reason we’re not, we usually explain, is that we do not yet know which people group we will end up among, and that wherever we do end up, the language is probably not going to be aContinue reading “Not Your Everyday Grammar Class”

Hudson is eager to help anytime I’m in the kitchen. I absolutely love it…that is, when I have allowed plenty of time for cleanup. 😉 We had lazy morning to make some muffins. Like any responsible cook, Hudson makes sure to test the product.  Watch out, Bobby Flay!

Last night we ushered twenty-eleven out the door by watching a TV special of a guy jumping his motorcycle four hundred feet across a San Diego bay.  Well, I watched.  Rachel gracefully reclined in the cradle of my arm and torso with a glazed look in her eyes.  I admit it was not the mostContinue reading “Year In Review”