Graduation

Last Friday we had a nice little graduation ceremony for those of us who passed our last evaluation. Good times had by all, and it was really nice to finally be officially done one part of our job here. One language down, one more to go!! Yippee.

But, seriously, many thanks to all the teachers for their perseverance and patience. Many thanks to fellow students for encouragement and especially, Salamat sa Dios na tapos na kami! Akala ko'y na hindi ako makatapos pero ayos na ang lahat. :-)




From the top left to right its, Chuck Talbot, me, Ginny and George Olson, Nate and Megan Ingvoldstadt, and Leilani Apacible. Bottom row, Linda Hall, Lourdes Melo, Beth Dela Cruz, Wendal Moralda, and Emil Riveria.

Quick trip

Last week we we traveled up to Mountain province and were able to visit the Ga'Dang people. It was quite the trip, we figured out that we traveled 960 kilometers in 27 hours over 5 days for literally 2 hours in the tribe. Crazy people that we are we considered it a fair trade. :-)

This is our fun ride in and out of the tribe. As you can see it was a bit bumpy and muddy.



While we were there we were able to look at the house plots given to us and (for me) to look at the house I'll rent from the people. It will take a bit of fixing up before I move in, minor things like installing a bathroom!
It was incredibly exciting to meet the people and see for ourselves the place and potential believers that we pray we will see one day.

Ga'Dang

Chuck and Erik just got back from their second trip into the Ga'Dang. While they were there they were super busy. They looked at possible airstrip locations, house plots, the water system and at the spring that was about 2-3 km up hill. All said and done, they got the official invite from the Ga'Dang people and we have been formally been accepted to come and live there!!

So.... this coming Tuesday we, the whole team, will go in and meet everyone there just so that they can see who we are and give them further assurance that we will be coming back in the new year to live with them. What could be a potential problem is that it is the beginning of the rainy season up there and if it is raining we can't get in. So we are headed up hoping and praying that the rain holds off a bit so that we can at least get in. Since its only been the guys so far it would be really nice if I could get in to meet the people.