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Well, I'm in my 3rd week at Language School here in Missouri and it has been quite the adventure. The first thing I did was go out and buy an air conditioner. The humidity here is like 80-90 percent! (hard for us Idaho boys to breath, coming from such a dry climate) Classes have been great! We're doing phonetics right now (learning a new alphabet that will make it easier to learn a tribal language - to be able to write down their words). It's always consistent, so you can always pronounce what is written (even if you've never seen the word), very unlike English. Anyways, they tell me that I'll never be as good at spelling English words again...haha j/k. Please pray for me during this time of training. In the scope of the tribal group that I will go to some day (hopefully soon), this is my ministry to them right now, because it is equipping me to learn their language and culture a whole lot faster and more efficiently when I do arrive, so that I can present them with the life-giving Message of the cross one day. Really, for those skeptics out there, this one year of training (really four years) will cut off many years that it would take to integrate into a tribal culture if I were to have just "gone out there" and told them about Jesus. This is for real, folks. Thank you so much for lifting me up in prayer! You are such a vital part of the team God has put me on in His work of reaching those who have "no one to tell them about Jesus."
Love in Christ,
Josh