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It has been a pleasure to work with a gal from Burma on English. We met before Christmas through World Relief. Upon our first meeting it was clear Ting was soon going to have a baby.
Although it was a slow start Ting is great at her letters and we are working on reading each week as we continue to build vocab. This past week we got to work on writing sentences.
As part of my Perspectives class I have been talking to Ting and her husband about their life in Burma and the differences between life there and her. Ting and her husband light up when they talk about their lives and it is a pleasure to listen. Last week Ting's husband told me about the missionaries that came to their people, the Chin people, in the mountains of Burma. He explained that missionaries came to their village in the mountains and helped the people with language and farming and electricity. He said that before the missionaries his grandfather and others worshiped a big stone and tree as god, but now they are Christians. He was so excited about what they had learned and how they had grown as a people. It was amazing to hear and wonderful to know how God had used the missionaries to bring that joy to the people through Christ. I pray for more missionaries like that, and that I may some day be among some that spread the story of Jesus in that way.
It was just amazing that this happened in Chin and that these people are all the way in America sharing it with me.
Although it was a slow start Ting is great at her letters and we are working on reading each week as we continue to build vocab. This past week we got to work on writing sentences.
As part of my Perspectives class I have been talking to Ting and her husband about their life in Burma and the differences between life there and her. Ting and her husband light up when they talk about their lives and it is a pleasure to listen. Last week Ting's husband told me about the missionaries that came to their people, the Chin people, in the mountains of Burma. He explained that missionaries came to their village in the mountains and helped the people with language and farming and electricity. He said that before the missionaries his grandfather and others worshiped a big stone and tree as god, but now they are Christians. He was so excited about what they had learned and how they had grown as a people. It was amazing to hear and wonderful to know how God had used the missionaries to bring that joy to the people through Christ. I pray for more missionaries like that, and that I may some day be among some that spread the story of Jesus in that way.
It was just amazing that this happened in Chin and that these people are all the way in America sharing it with me.
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