Winter clothes………check
Kids’ schoolbooks….check
Bedding from OK…..check
Legos………………….check
Playdo………………..check
More Toys…………..check
Bins from MO……….check
Four little bikes…….check
Blankies & lovies…..check
Six toothbrushes…..check
And more stuff……..check
packed for departure
Assorted baggage
Yep, we’re packed to the eyeballs and ready to roll! We’re pulling out of North Carolina this Monday morning and making our way to Wisconsin! We enjoyed God’s blessing of family and church family while here in North Carolina and I was able to finish my Linguistic Write-Up paper with lots of support from family and lots of prayers from the Body of Christ! The mountains are especially beautiful this time of year, but they are made most beautiful by family. We will miss Mom and Dad and are so thankful for their love and support! We Love you, Mom and Dad!
We need and appreciate continued prayers from all as we travel the 736 miles to Wisconsin with our 4 kiddos and 2 carloads of stuff: that means the 2 drivers don’t get any breaks…. Pray especially in the afternoon–the body thinks that’s siesta hour!
Our friends Julie and Keith have offered a chance for a visit and a rest–a much needed rest to the tired drivers by spreading our trip over two days. We are so grateful that they have welcomed us to visit them in Kentucky on our way home! It will be so very good to see them again and see their new little one!
We look forward to seeing our beloved family and friends in Wisconsin again! We’ll be arriving on Tuesday, staying with friends in North Prarie and preparing to move into our new home on Saturday!
Thank you, Lord for gracious caring friends who care for our needs, even unanticipated ones! Praise Him with us for:
a place to stay and rest on the way
a place to stay while we settle in
cars in good running condition
kids who travel well
family’s love and care while here in NC
my ears have been med-free for 1 week and doing great!
Pray with us for:
safety and alertness on the road as we both drive
loving kindness between the kiddos
patience with the kiddos
missing family and friends we’re leaving behind…again
health and energy for the next few days, weeks of moving in & unpacking
Thank you so much for praying for our family in this time of transition after transition. Sometimes we feel like we are moving so much that we are not sure which move we should be processing.
Please continue to pray for our family as we continue moving and transitioning.
We made it safely to North Carolina after spending a week in Missouri for Jenny to get started on the 3 week process of doing her write up of findings based on the language data we collected in Oklahoma.
We are wrapping up week 1 here in North Carolina and Jenny is making great headway on her paper. The kids are enjoying the mountains and time with Grandma and Grandpa.
We have recently uploaded some pictures to our photos page. Feel free to check them out.
We called it home for the last 7 weeks. Our family stayed in one of the rooms in the building that had 8 bunk beds in it and 16 mattresses. We borrowed some from other rooms in order to complete “construction” of our home. It is amazing all the ways a bunk and a mattress can be used.
I thought I would share a short video of the camp where we stayed in Oklahoma for the Cherokee Practicum. Check out our video of where we were staying. Hopefully it gives you a little better idea of what life was like in Tahlequah, OK. We are in Missouri now for a week and then we spend two weeks in North Carolina during which Jenny will be working on the write up of her findings.
While we were in Oklahoma James started riding his bike on two wheels too. Both James and Jada are riding without their training wheels. Our little “babies” are growing up.
Hope you enjoy the video of James on two wheels and the other kids showing off some more advanced biking skills.
We are so blessed by the team that we are with here in Oklahoma for the Cherokee Practicum. This last Thursday night the singles and marrieds without children sent all of us parents WITH children on a date night. What a great time. The kids were well cared for and had a great time while Jenny and I had a chance to get out JUST THE TWO OF US. We went to the East Buffet and to see a movie. It was AWESOME! Here is a pic of us before going out and the nice surprise we came home to.
Heading out for DATE NIGHTRoses, Chocolates and a nice note from our TEAM
The kids have been going to AWANA clubs while we are here in Oklahoma. They are enjoying it so much. Sometimes it feels like they ask every day if it is the night for AWANA’s to happen. Here is a picture of James and Jada in their NEW cubbies vests on their way to AWANA clubs. They are really doing well learning their verses. It seems like they are often more interested in learning Emmanuel and Elena’s verses than their own.
Praise the Lord, He has blessed us with a WONDERFUL place to stay when we move to Wisconsin in early November. This is obviously one of the things that we are concerned about as a family thinking about moving… a place to move into. He continues to provide for us, and come through over and over again…and yet so many times we are surprised when He does. Like our housing situation for Wisconsin: we were unsure of how it would all work out, and the Lord allowed us to rent a place in the SAME neighborhood where we lived before leaving for training with New Tribes. We will actually be like 3 blocks from where we used to live. What a treat for us as a family experiencing so much transition and new living situations to be able to move somewhere familiar. On top of that the Lord worked it out so we are blessed with AMAZING rent for the area, a lower security deposit, flexible term on the lease so that we can move on to French study as soon as we are ready, 3 bedrooms, and the list goes on.
I will post some pictures of our new place when we get settled.
We are back in missouri for the weekend. Jenny went to the ladies retreat with Calvary Chapel Lake Ozark. We had a good trip up from Oklahoma except for the fact that I left the suitcase with all of our clothes in it behind. Thankfully we had brought our dirty clothes to wash, so we were able to wash them and have clothes until our suitcase arrived.
We thought you might enjoy a sneak peak into one of our language helper sessions that we go to as part of our Cherokee Practicum. We spend 2 hours a day with our language helper learning more about the Cherokee language.
One of the important facets of analyzing a language is the ability to determine how verbs or action words are constructed. In some languages the word for “we” that excludes the person listening to the conversation is different from the word for “we” that includes the listener. Using Lego People can be a big help in setting up these scenarios so that Jenny and I as well as Ord (our language helper) understand what we are looking for.
Please pray that we will be able to make the most of our language helper sessions and that the Lord would keep the lines of communication open.
Jonathan and Jenny Roundy Reaching the Unreached 
