Okay, we are considered old at school. We are older than all the students and most of the teachers. That being said even old dogs can learn new tricks and we are LEARNING! We have a great teacher, Javier, who really pushes us to not just speak but to read and write as well so that it sticks with us as we go along. He’s giving us all the connections that we’ve needed for the thousands of words we already knew, we just didn’t understand how to string them all together properly. We’ve even learned the Mexican alphabet…certainly helps to sound out new words and hear words when others speak when you know how the letters SOUND. Whew! We were beginning to think we’d never get it. Plus Javier’s now staying an extra half hour each class session to help us catch up with the other two students since we started late. What a guy.
We do have a long way to go still, but we are getting more confident with each session. We were even able to have brief conversations with Lidia’s mom when she visited even though we’d never met her before. Usually new people are harder for us to understand because we aren’t used to their cadence and patterns of speaking. But we understood a lot of what she was saying and could speak with her pretty well too. We’ve been speaking more confidently with the people at church too. Amazing. We may just get this yet!!
Thanks so much for your prayers for us as we sought the right school…we are thankful that you all hang in with us and are faithful to keep us in prayer. Bless you.
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