Swahili graduation

We graduated!!!!  We are now officially certified Swahili speakers :)

This has been one of the most challenging experiences of our lives.  Moving away from friends and family, living in Africa...with kids, enduring sickness...and bugs, studying Swahili everyday, all day long. 

But we are so thankful for our time here.  We are very blessed to have studied with these teachers in this place.  We really respect and appreciate the teachers.  It was interesting to build relationships and discuss life with teachers who were from a Christian background as well as those from another major world religion.  God used this experience to broaden our worldview and deepen our faith.

We are excited to continue learning this language so that we can communicate with people.  Studying Swahili and reading the Swahili Bible rekindled our desire to see God's Word in peoples' heart languages.

And after 16 weeks of Swahili school our brains have gone "bye-bye!"  It's been wonderful, but we're glad to be done.

Now, on to Musoma.....