Becoming Capable

Learning Language

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It has felt like riding a bike these past two weeks; learning the process of how to ride again, to stand up on your own, and then get ready to hit the many bumps in the road, while trying to get the rust off the chain. That is how we felt about these past two weeks.

We are now on the last leg of language learning (we will always have room to grow in the proficient level)! Before we got back into full-time language learning we had a month of running around and helping out the mission in various capacities, which in turn allowed us to get great language exposure and meet some great people. Now we are back into a full swing of language learning so that we can finish this phase well…but as the problem with all journeys, nothing usually goes as planned.

This past week we had a couple of hiccups in language learning, but everything of course is God-ordained. For about a day and a half Seth spent his time with Interface Students; this is a 6-week program that gives high school age to young adults a crash course into tribal missions, classes all day on the process of missions, as well as a week spent in a tribe (hyperlink). Seth was asked to give a devotional for them, and he talked to them about living a life that “takes the responsibility of showing forth God’s glory to all nations” (2 Cor. 1-12,). Many of them walked away contemplating the message and felt heavy with the responsibility that God has put on each and every one of His children to bring the fame of His name to all people 2 Cor. 4:7.

This week we also had a virus hit us, Nicole was literally taken out for 3 days with various symptoms, and Seth had a lesser case of it with missing a day due to the virus. We both are still recovering and our energy is not what it normally is, but God has all things worked out for His glory, even our sickness.

We have about 10 days till we do our bush orientation (begins our July 28^th), once we arrive to our bush location, we will go dark (no internet) so if you want to say hello or good-bye, this week is the time. Our next blog will be more detailed on this topic. We wanted to propel you all to the next blog and give you a notice, but also apologize because we will post several blogs this next week so that we can communicate with you all while it is possible!

Thank you for your faithfulness in reading our posts, we cannot be here without you, we covet your prayers as we prepare to finish Tok Pisin, head out to Bush orientation, and recover from this nasty virus.

Your feet to the unreached in PNG, Seth & Nicole Stokes.

                                                                                                Romans 15:20