Enjoy!
PS. Audrey is sick and David's starting to feel not so well. Keep them and their health in your prayers! Also, pray for Henny as she's busy with the Leadership Matters Course this week and needs to stay healthy! And I would like to avoid getting sick too, but we'll just wait and see!
Hello! You don't know Audrey and me, and we don't know you either, but we both know David and Henny.
Life here in Cameroon is so exciting and busy; these past few days since our arrival on the 11th have been very full! David and Henny, Audrey and I are in Yaound̩ at the SIL Cameroon Training Center, where David is just finishing teaching and assisting with a two-week course on Bible translation principles to 23 Cameroonians who are eager to have God's Word in their mother tongue. It's so exciting Рbut has been a lot of work for David and the other people leading the course, with teaching, marking and such.
Within hours of our arriving in Yaoundé, David's love of linguistics was evident to both Audrey and me. Linguistics is mentioned frequently (and fondly) in conversation. Yesterday in the car, he instructed me on how to shape my mouth to make the right sound for a word, and today he was showing Audrey and me the difference between aspirated and unaspirated p's and b's by getting us to hold a tissue paper in front of our mouths. “I perceive a pig” was the phrase to say. (Try it! Hold a piece of Kleenex in front of your mouth and watch how 'puffing' on the p's will make it move). Mpumpong has some words that are the same except for the aspiration. This is why it is so important to know the difference, though it is difficult to hear in conversation for those who aren't used to listening for it.
This afternoon Henny showed Audrey and me their electronic dictionary (complete with sound recordings) for Mpumpong words, including French and English equivalents. It's exciting that we'll get to learn some Mpumpong when we head out to Yokadouma in the middle of February.
Henny's been busy with Executive Committee meetings and planning for a Leadership Matters Course that she is assisting with the next two weeks.
As for Audrey and me, we're doing well. The adjustment has taken a bit of time, but David and Henny are very understanding, supportive, loving and wonderful. They have been a huge blessing to us in our time here already, and we're so excited for the rest of the time we have with them.
Audrey is from Quebec and is attending Briercrest College & Seminary in Saskatchewan in Global Studies. She's interested in linguistics and Bible translation and is looking for opportunities to serve here in Cameroon and to see what God may have planned for her future. Her French skills and outgoing personality are a huge asset here! I (Andrea) am from the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, and I am attending the University of Waterloo in Ontario. I'm studying math, education, and international development. I'm really excited to spend this time in Cameroon learning the different ways people serve in missions and figuring out where God wants me in that.
Prayer topics:
*Audrey and I adjusting
*Translators finishing their course and beginning translation
*David, Audrey, and I as we travel 6 hours this weekend to a wedding
*Henny's role in the Leadership Matters Course
Thank you for your prayers!
-Andrea
(And David and Henny and Audrey!)
Life here in Cameroon is so exciting and busy; these past few days since our arrival on the 11th have been very full! David and Henny, Audrey and I are in Yaound̩ at the SIL Cameroon Training Center, where David is just finishing teaching and assisting with a two-week course on Bible translation principles to 23 Cameroonians who are eager to have God's Word in their mother tongue. It's so exciting Рbut has been a lot of work for David and the other people leading the course, with teaching, marking and such.
Within hours of our arriving in Yaoundé, David's love of linguistics was evident to both Audrey and me. Linguistics is mentioned frequently (and fondly) in conversation. Yesterday in the car, he instructed me on how to shape my mouth to make the right sound for a word, and today he was showing Audrey and me the difference between aspirated and unaspirated p's and b's by getting us to hold a tissue paper in front of our mouths. “I perceive a pig” was the phrase to say. (Try it! Hold a piece of Kleenex in front of your mouth and watch how 'puffing' on the p's will make it move). Mpumpong has some words that are the same except for the aspiration. This is why it is so important to know the difference, though it is difficult to hear in conversation for those who aren't used to listening for it.
This afternoon Henny showed Audrey and me their electronic dictionary (complete with sound recordings) for Mpumpong words, including French and English equivalents. It's exciting that we'll get to learn some Mpumpong when we head out to Yokadouma in the middle of February.
Henny's been busy with Executive Committee meetings and planning for a Leadership Matters Course that she is assisting with the next two weeks.
As for Audrey and me, we're doing well. The adjustment has taken a bit of time, but David and Henny are very understanding, supportive, loving and wonderful. They have been a huge blessing to us in our time here already, and we're so excited for the rest of the time we have with them.
Audrey is from Quebec and is attending Briercrest College & Seminary in Saskatchewan in Global Studies. She's interested in linguistics and Bible translation and is looking for opportunities to serve here in Cameroon and to see what God may have planned for her future. Her French skills and outgoing personality are a huge asset here! I (Andrea) am from the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, and I am attending the University of Waterloo in Ontario. I'm studying math, education, and international development. I'm really excited to spend this time in Cameroon learning the different ways people serve in missions and figuring out where God wants me in that.
Prayer topics:
*Audrey and I adjusting
*Translators finishing their course and beginning translation
*David, Audrey, and I as we travel 6 hours this weekend to a wedding
*Henny's role in the Leadership Matters Course
Thank you for your prayers!
-Andrea
(And David and Henny and Audrey!)
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