Welcome to our blog! We hope to post weekly to keep all our family and friends updated on our mission adventures over the next 18 months. Please feel free to comment or share the link to this blog with anyone you think might like to follow our adventures!
We spent the last three days in language immersion training. We learned that Croatian is one of the most difficult languages missionaries have to learn and that we have a long way to go towards being able to communicate with the local people in Croatia and Bosnia! We now have a basic understanding of how to conjugate nouns, verbs and adjectives and have a great cheat sheet to reference. We will continue to work on learning vocabulary words and practicing reading and writing sentences, but the real language training will come when we are in the country learning from the people we will have the joy of interacting with.
We also got to spend the evenings with my (Dionne's) grandparents this week which was very special and we are so grateful they went out of their way to stop in Provo to spend time with us!
We will officially report to the MTC on Monday at 10:30am. The first week we will be learning all things missionary then the second week we will be doing training specific to our humanitarian/welfare assignment. There is a database system we need to learn as well as policies and procedures. It will be a fun two weeks... hopefully I can survive sitting in a classroom that long everyday. It's not quite the same as running around a barn, playing with the grandkids or hiking with my dog, but I'm sure I will be blessed with patience.
We will fly to Croatia on Monday, August 22 where we will spend a few days before heading to Bosnia. We are very excited for this new chapter in life and look forward to getting to Croatia and Bosnia to begin working.
Thank you to everyone who helped with the wedding reception, packing up the house, helping us move everything and for taking care of my horses, my dog and my family while we are gone! We love you all and look forward to sharing our experiences with you!
Until next week..... big hugs!
Dennis and Dionne Newton
Dennis & Dionne Newton
Good luck you two. I know you will have an amazing impact on the people of Croatia and Bosnia. Let us know if we can do anything to help you from Kansas.
ReplyDeleteWe are so excited for you two! What an exciting adventure ahead of you. Sure love you both and we are looking forward to hearing about your experiences in helping to change the lives of many people! The people of Bosnia and Croatia are very bless to have you two! Hugs to you, Anne and Dave
ReplyDeleteIt was great seeing you last week! So much as happened since then! I thought you were in the MTC all ready? Perhaps its is language training? Thanks for the blog - I look forward to watching and reading about your adventure! Love yours and Dennys photo!
ReplyDeleteThis is so wonderfully awesome!!!
ReplyDeleteIt was a pleasure to meet you at the MTC and we look forward to following your adventure through your blog...
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