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January 9, 1989

Dear Joy,

Thanks -for your letter in-forming us o-f the -folks who had recently used our sl ideprograms. Ue had hoped to get new video -footage while the Berrys were here, but'I guess you heard about the video being stolen. Uhen we do get some newmaterials, we''ll have Mom and Dad send you a copy. I^m enclosing a l ittle news-from the past year, and I will try to send you a copy o-f the thank-you letters wesend out bi-monthly. Again, thanks -for all you do for us missionaries.Seems unbel ievable that '88 is history, where has it gone? It has been a verygood year for us, all things considered. Even though it started out with Bonitabeing very sick, we can look back and see a lot of positive things that havehappened. Ule attended a Beginning Translation workshop which has proved helpful.We finally finished getting a couple of papers on Botin grammar ready forpubl icationthat was a chore! Sam and Nadine Reed spent three weeks with us,Sam going over the Genesis Joseph story with me in Hebrew and left me with averse by verse exegesis and the plans of working with him on other Old Testamentprojects. Our computer man, Jeff Wilhoit spent three weeks with us introducingus to our new computer and the wonder of MS-DOS computingwe're still reel ing abit from that, and will probably always be in awe of what the machine can do andhow confusing it can be. It has proved to be a very important asset to our work.We have also Just about finished the renovations we started on the old homesteadwe started a couple of years ago, and had put on the "do It on Saturday for abreak from the translation work." We Just got tired of seeing all that needed tobe done, and took a couple of weeks out to complete It. Our translation of theJoseph story has taken longer than we ever anticipated. But we to the point thatwe see the end. Hopefully, we will be ready for a consultant to come and checkIt in February. Then we will be beginning the translation of Luke, which we hopeto complete in 1989.

We have started a new era in the education of the boys. I am helping nma.I mostly work with Jesse. It allows Bonita to be able to be involved in ourlanguage ministry, which Is very important, and reaping good benefits. Ourhelpers are improving in their skills and are able to work more on their own,which helps. So far it is working our pretty well.

Josh has been diagnosed as having a learning disabil ity in regard toreading, so my working with Jesse all(M

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Greetings -from Papua New Guinea!

Good news is always -fun and exciting to write about. The other day I was in theo-f-fice and I got this real good -feel ing. Have you had them be-fore? You know, thekind where you just -feel l ike giggl ing and laughing and dancing a jig, all at thesame time. Well , I'll tell you, I really soaked it up because -feel ings l ike thatdon't come around all that o-ften, and l ike any -feel ing, is -fleeting. But as I thinkabout it, we have a lot o-f things to -feel good about.

We can feel good about the Good News! God loves us and accepts us because His Sonhas "made peace through the blood of his cross." We have been transferred from thedomain of darkness into the kingdom of His Son. And what about the l ittle thingsday by day that we take for granted? I could go on and on, but I've got just acouple of things that I want to share with you that have made us feel good. I hopethey make you feel good because you are a part of them.

This week I merged all the chapter files of the Genesis Joseph story into one bigfile. As I worked through the big fi le containing the story of Joseph, my firstresponse was, "Why has it taken so long to get just this l ittle bit done?"

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Greetings from Papua New Guinea!

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