01 September 2010
By Beth
In .TheDealio
Our full time job these days is “National Culture and Language Acquisition.” I know, it’s a mouthful. Basically we are learning the language and culture. 
This job is a big one. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed with how much we have to learn but most of the time it is exciting. It means we get to spend lots of time out with the people here, building relationships with them as they help us learn how to speak the trade language, called Tok Pisin.
Tok Pisin is actually a very simple language comparatively. We have been told that we can expect to speak it well in about six months, though it still requires hard work.
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01 September 2010
By Beth
In .TheDealio
My heart almost hit my throat when I saw the massive truck approaching. I flew down our stairs to see the thing that Tom and I (and many others) had been dying to see for months and months. Our CONTAINER! Praise the Lord- our stuff made it!
After being packed into a 40 foot shipping container along with dozens of other missionaries’ things, it made a six month journey from Missouri, USA to us here in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. It seems nearly impossible that it could have actually made it all that way and now it would be in our hands again.
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20 August 2010
By Tom
In .TheDealio
Just six days after arriving in Papua New Guinea, we are starting to feel settled in our new home. Its definitely different than living in the United States! For those of you who are curious about our current living situation, we made this blog just for you to answer some of the common questions we have been getting lately from friends and family back home.
New Time Zone: Papua New Guinea is 14 hours ahead of the east coast time zone, 17 hours ahead if you are form the west coast. Thankfully, our time in Australia basically helped us get over our jet lag before arriving to PNG.
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Our full time job these days is “National Culture and Language Acquisition.” I know, it’s a mouthful. Basically we are learning the language and culture. 
