Time is moving quickly...

First of all, I want to say we love you guys very much. Thank you for your comments and e-mails and letters (and Prince Valiant comics...). :) We are very lucky to have you and you totally make our day and make us laugh tons.


We're back again… we’re in our seminar site just for about 4 days and then we’re heading back to our community based training sites. Everything is happening so fast! We go back in 4 days and are there for about 6 days and then…the big moment…we’ll find out our site placement -- where we’ll be living for the next two years!!! We’ll find out the vital statistics of our community, the next day we’ll have “mid-term” language interviews, and the following day we’ll take a week and travel to our new sites and check out the situation. It is so unbelievably close and I think we’re really excited and a little nervous. More traveling and finding out exactly what we’re going to be up to during our service… :)

Our CBT was a really good experience this time-- not that it wasn’t last time! Our language is just getting better. Not good, mind you. :) Just better. We can conjugate verbs now in the present tense, so we don’t have to say, “Now, he went to the store,” (because the infinitive of verbs in Darija is he in the past tense…) instead of, “Now, we need to go to the store.” We all feel like we are learning so slowly, but when you look at where we were a week ago, or two weeks ago, it’s kind of amazing! There is something new and big to learn each day, which is sometimes overwhelming, but you get to go home and use right away which is FUN and the pace keeps us on our toes and motivated.

Here’s some pics, and we’ll keep you posted!



Here's Michael and our host brother Azdine (my spelling is a little interpretive, I only know how to write it in Arabic script...)



Here's a picture of our whole host family, except for our host grandma.



Here's an action shot of us hanging out on the patio, shelling peas, or whatever it is you call taking peas out of pea pods!

One last thing, please keep your thoughts and prayers with the Rustads because Baby Ru is coming any minute now! (I'm really excited!) Although...I'm a little behind the loop, understandably, so really...Baby Ru could be here...but keep them in your thoughts anyways please?

Oh, and remember Jevan, nobody puts Baby in a corner. :)