BUSY, BUSY, BUSY

Lately our brains have been similar to sponges as we have been studying “bahasa Indonesia” (the Indonesian language). We go to class from 8-12 and do everything we can to “soak up” as much Indonesian as possible. By the time we come home for lunch we aren’t sure it would be possible to store another word in our teeny tiny brains! We never realized that studying this hard could make us more physically tired than we have ever been. But, sure enough if we rely on Christ He always supplies us with the strength we need to continue each day.

Every day we have to present to our classmates in Indonesian.

Logan is telling about his day, full of helping out the new families arriving on the field and visiting with our Indonesian neighbors.

In the afternoons we often visit with our neighbors (even though we still have a limited amount of language) and run our errands in town. Laken is getting to know our neighbor kids quite well and has been asking daily to go outside and play with the kids. Sometimes we think what he really wants is to play with their toys, but at least we are getting out and about and building relationships!

Laken playing with the little neighbor boy!!

We have been attending a small church just around the corner from our home. Though the service is entirely in Indonesian it is still a blessing to be surrounded by people worshiping our great God! We are beginning to understand bits and pieces of the service and we can follow along in our “alkitab” (bible) that is in both Indonesian and English.