Karl and Kristen Nielsen Just another weblog 
"Karl, the pastor just asked if you would like to share your testimony"
I knew I was in trouble when my colleague, with a gleeful smirk on his face, leaned over to tell me this. In that moment, I entered into two different unexplored territories for me. First, I generally never speak in front of people without thinking, preparing and sweating about the topic I am going to cover. Secondly, this is the first time I had to speak through an interpreter – and he did not quite have a mastery of English. Needless to say, there were times when both of us lost our train of thought.
We have twice attended a national church in town which uses the trade language that we are trying to learn. It is difficult as there are few words that we actually understand. Sitting through a long service, we heard the word for food – kaikai – numerous times and were starting to get a bit hungry. Afterwards, when able to question why we kept hearing that word, our friends explained that they use the metaphor of “good food to eat” when talking about the Word of God. Hopefully, our continued study will enable us to understand a bit more.
