Hey Everybody,

                 Orientation is now over, so here’s what next for Penny and I. First, tonight we’re taking Matt and Rocky to the airport, their headed to Guinea to serve in the city with some of our missionaries there. Tomorrow we have the day off to just rest and get ready to move in with our supervisors Brandy and Kanesa in Kollo, which is a village about 45 minutes from Niamey.. We’ll be with them for the next 3 weeks doing language training. Penny and I have already started working on the language and it has been going really well. Greetings are very important here, so normally we you pass by someone you don’t just say “Hi, How are you?” you say “Hey, How are you doing? How’s your family? How’s your work? How are the kids?” and it could continue for 10 minutes or so just in Greetings so we’ve been working on getting that down and we’re doing well so Thank you for your prayers on that. Please continue with that as we enter into Language Classes. Also continue to pray for Kanesa and Brandy as we move in.. That together as a team we would have unity in our vision and work for the Lord. That we would all be able to work together in harmony, being of one heart and one mind, that God would protect us from anything that Satan would try to bring against us that would try to destroy our peace and love in between each other.

And as Penny and I enter into another new environment called “bush life” J and we begin to experience a more intense level of Spiritual warfare, continue to pray for us incessantly. We’re gonna need it. After Sunday I don’t know the next time I will have internet access so tomorrow or Sunday I will email again before I head out into the bush!:)

Thank you for all your emails to let me know how you are doing and what we can be praying for you about. Its encouraging to know that we have ya’ll at home praying for us but it is even more encouraging to receive emails back from everybody. I pray that you will have a blessed weekend.

Grace and Hope,

Nan 

(Jan. 16, 2009)