This is our last week of missionary training...can't believe we are here already! Even though it feels like we have been in training for a looooong time, it has also flown by. Just 2 more days now (except Nathan and I are doing another intensive training next semester--more on that later).
We had our last ELINC group. ELINC stands for: Equipping through Listening, Interacting, Nurturing and Challenging. It has been our small discipleship group for the past 3 semesters, and we met every week with them. We have shared some very good times with this group (there are 3 people missing from the picture, so this isn't quite everyone). We LOVE these people!
A good friend of ours got married last weekend! It was one of the most beautiful weddings I have ever been to. And my rockstar mom came all the way down to Missouri to watch our kiddos that night!!
Lol...I didn't like the first picture (above) because I thought my arm looked too big :) So on the second one, Nathan kindly covered it up for me. Ha!
Some of my very dear classmates--what a great group of ladies!
And our sweet friend, Deborah. It was so much fun to be there to celebrate with her--we have been in training with Deborah since the beginning, in MI. Congrats Deborah! (and Matt, of course!)
And in the midst of everything, we have been working hard in some great classes. This class is called Semantics and Translation, and it is so fascinating! It is giving us a glimpse of what it might look like to translate the Bible into our tribal language someday. God help us! We will need His help on this for sure--it is such a huge and weighty task. What a responsibility, huh? We are so thankful that we will have consultants to help us check our translation along the way, and we are super thankful that we will have partners helping us. And of course, we are so thankful for God's grace, which we know will be sufficient!
If you want to pray for us, we would appreciate it--we have some tough goodbyes coming up soon :( More on that later, too!
4 comments:
Wow! I can't believe it's your last week!!!
It has flown by. Of course it won't be easy, but I think you will be well prepared.
Grandpa Jim
Love you guys!!
Praying for you as you say your goodbyes:( And I was so glad to come and spend some time with you all:) Deborah sure was a beautiful bride:)
gma jan
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