Landon - My Updates from Sub-Saharan Africa

Class of 2017
Tribal Language Acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Track: Languages - Linguistics
Region: Africa - Sub-Saharan

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Dependence

Posted on November 8, 2017

I’m not used to relying on other people. I’ve always felt like I needed to take care of my own wants or problems. It wasn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes I think it was healthy for me to take care of whatever mess I was win without dragging anyone else into it. Of course there were downsides to that. There always are. I’ve struggled to make requests of other people, to force myself into a conversation and say “Hey here’s a need I could use some help with.” I always felt like I was forcing myself on other people, like I’d be wasting their time with problems they likely did not care about. It... Read more

From Dead Languages to Living People

Posted on August 29, 2017

If you had told me a year ago that I would be going overseas to serve with missions in an international context, I probably would have shrugged off your comment as if it was only a hyperbolic compliment.  My head was in the clouds.  Well, I guess it still is, but things have changed.  Slowly, bit-by-bit, God has worked on my heart and my ambitions My mind’s always been in the past.  Little pleased me more than to drone on-and-on about bygone days.  I could tell you more about the feats of Alexander or the reforms of Akhenaten than I could whatever the kids are into these days.  That’s still... Read more