Bryson and Mindy White Culture/Language Acquisition in Paraguay 
Our family in front of the Cherokee church we're attending while here
Wow! What a summer! It was so good to see many of you and share with you about God’s mission to redeem the lost and our vision to be a part of it. We were able to stop and see some old friends of Mindy along the way. At the beginning of summer, we got to see a dear couple that pastors a church in Idaho now who actually taught my parents in Baker City, Oregon when they were going through the missionary training. On the way to Oklahoma we stayed in a couple houses that are part of a hospitality network for missionaries. One of the couples that we stayed with happened to be the same couple that I stayed with when I was traveling with my parents from Missouri to California 15 years ago.
Along with people that we haven’t seen for many years we got to visit with many people that we’ve been in contact with over the last few years and it was very good to have that fellowship. But we also got to meet a lot of new people as God worked out opportunities for us to share in some churches that we have never been to before. Praise God that the news of God’s plan of missions is spreading! We thoroughly enjoyed visiting with the many people that we got to do that with.
After a busy Summer, we’re now heading into a hectic Autumn. We have arrived in Tahlequah, OK and we already have one week of language sessions behind us. I get the feeling these seven (six now!) weeks are going to fly by. We have a very sweet lady named Lucile Wilson as our language helper. She is a believer and we will be going to her church while we’re here. We’ve learned some of the important initial sayings for entering any new culture.
The Cherokee Baptist grounds that we're staying on
Osiyo, tohiju means “hello, how are you? And you respond to this by saying osta, “I’m good.” And to ask what something is we need to say kataustia. This is only the beginning though and they say that the easiest is behind us—well that’s good to know! Thank you all so much for your prayers and for the encouragement that you are. Oh, by the way, there is no word for “goodbye” in Cherokee.
dodedakohai
See ya’ll later!
