4/6/2008
Dear Friends and Family,
I hope you are doing exceedingly abundantly supercalifragilistically well in all the ways that really matter. I have enjoyed hearing from many of you in the absence of my posting anything here.
This last month has been pretty tough in most ways. I’m continuing to press through in my studies and am enjoying my Arabic classes. So many of the Egyptians I’ve befriended speak English, which of course allows for easy communication, but is frustrating because I don’t practice any Arabic with them. Fortunately, I’ve befriended a fellow my age named Mahmud, who speaks no English and sells ice cream along my route home from the metro. I’m trying to save at least half an hour everyday to sit and talk with him. I’m also now teaching an English language class on Monday and Thursday nights. The class is composed of about twenty five Egyptians, and an Egyptian teacher who, along with his family, has pretty much adopted me. I’m also grateful to have some wise friends I met last summer back in Cairo who are doing precisely what I’m interested in.
I need your prayers that in whatever condition I find myself, the one thing that will remain is a dominant, burning DESIRE for continual fervent communion with God Himself. This can be very hard to maintain with an extremely limited Christian community here, but thank God that He says HE is the One who maintains love (Ex. 34:7). I am also really trying to get more sleep as that makes a huge difference in my day.
I love and miss you all and look forward to seeing you this summer, back at school next fall, or wherever our paths might cross again.
Love,
Andrew