The students will all be on their way back to town in the next week or two. We are so excited to see our friends again and so eager to get back into the swing of hard and heavy language study.
My husband has begun studying Uyghur with a new tutor and in discussing language study materials, he just mentioned that he'd like to study the Bible. What a wonderful surprise that this new friend, was eager to get to read a U Bible and study it with my man. Please pray that he would be opened, awakened from the dead just like Lazarus. Oh that Jesus would call to this friend and bring him to new life, new hope, faith in Him!
For me, I am hopeful for a new year: because of family responsibilities, this will be my last full-time year in language study. I struggle so much to be diligent in these studies because I have very few people to speak/practice with I am very distracted with lots of responsibilities (sweet children!) at home. But this year is crucial! May the Lord enable me to apply my mind to these studies, to persevere through the infant stage (feeling soooo dumb!) and may I too be able to study Scripture and proclaim at least some of the truth and greatness, the glory of Christ, by next summer! It will be a miracle. This is a Very Difficult Language. But miracles are just His line of business and I am boldly asking for just that.... miraculous grace to study well and have my mind and tongue and ears and heart receive and hold onto this language!
This past month especially, I have felt very weak in language skills. Discouragement is hard. One local friend here told me that my Chinese has regressed lately and I haven't been studying Uyghur since my tutors have been gone! No doubt, I'm loosing two languages then! Everyday our lives are in Chinese and I so want to proclaim Christ in Chinese.... but even more so in Uyghur, this language that has had Christ named and explained oh so little! Oh for grace! Enable me Jesus, for your glory! Help me be diligent! I really don't want to settle, to excuse myself for any lazy reason. By the grace of God, I can be a mom to our precious children and diligent to apply my mind to language study with the slim hours I have while they sleep. May it be Lord Jesus, for your glory, by your strength!
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