Goals

Through being with colleagues and the books I have been reading, I have come up with some goals for these next four months on the field, things I want to improve on, I figure if I put them in my newsletter, you guys can help keep me accountable! 

A forty hour language learning week- this doesn’t necessarily mean out with people eight hours a day, it would include working on listening to recordings or stories in Kon. As my director said- I can’t control how quickly I learn the language, I can control the amount of time I spend trying. 

A constant and steady devotional time in the mornings before running- I was so pumped about this whole running in the mornings thing, I was putting my quiet time off until an undesignated time later in the day. But I want to start setting my alarm and making time with God the priority. 

Writing at least one French email a week- I have been focused on Kon language learning and letting my French go, not good!! We do try and watch one French film a week, and I want to read my Bible in French more too.

Writing one family member an email a week- I think this would be a good practice even if I were stateside, extended family is easy to lose track of, but I would like to maintain those connections so that when I come home I am not totally out of the loop.

So there we go! If I am at nothing, that is exactly what I will get!