Falling Into Place

By Jacob -
Changes Coming  
Last weekend we visited Arusha in order to discuss future plans with MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) and locate possible housing. We were pleased to come back home with the next three months planned and having found a furnished house to move to.

New Schedule Highlights
A lot still needs to happen before the end of August: 
May - Dinah leaves and Jacob has to study for and take aviation written exams. 
June - Full-time language studies end and we attend the annual SIL conference. 
July - Before the SIL conference ends, Jacob will be flying to the UK for a week of MAF training. The day after returning to Tanzania from the UK, we plan to move to Arusha. Once in Arusha, Jacob will begin flying in preparation for a flight test to transfer his USA pilot licenses over to Tanzania. 
August - Jacob will go back to Dar Es Salaam in order to take the flight test. Upon returning, he will start two weeks of ground and flight training with MAF in Arusha.

Bloopers
In the process of learning how to understand and speak Swahili, we have said some pretty ridiculous things. For instance: “Yes, I love to eat clothes pins!” or “The car does not have a steering wheel because it is at the house.” Fortunately, we are in a safe place to make mistakes since Warioba, our language helper, understands that we are like little children  learning how to live in his world. 

Praises
Since Dinah will be leaving in a few weeks, we have been wondering how Carmen would be able to continue language classes. Ironically, God worked out the details during a frisbee game! During the game, Jacob made a connection with a family who put us in contact with Angel, a Tanzanian lady who will be watching the children and taking care of basic housework in the morning so that we can continue language lessons until we leave Dar.  


 Silas just turned five, Jason is now three, and the girls are six months old.  For over a month, at least one of the kids was sick with colds fevers. We are grateful that God has kept them all well for the past two weeks now. 

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