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THIS WILL BE OUR LAST NEWSLETTER BEFORE RETURNING TO TANZANIA, AND ITS A BIG ONE! DURING OUR TIME IN THE U.S. WEVE VISITED & BEEN VISITED BY A LOT OF PEOPLE, SO LETS HAVE A LOOK THROUGH THAT FIRST UP.

DALE & TONI SMITH YOU CAN TELL WHICH OF US THEY WERE MOST INTERESTED IN SEEING. ;)

DAVE MILLER DAVE & I USED TO WORK TOGETHER AT SHADOW MOUNTAINSHIGH SCHOOL MINISTRY. HES A DOCTOR NOW, SO WE MIGHT START SENDING HIM PICS OF ANY STRANGE LUMPS OR RASHES THAT WE GET IN TANZANIA.

MEKELLYDAVECONORBRIANANNASOME KIDSUMMER 1999

SHE ALSO USED TO WORK WITH ME AT SHADOW MOUNTAIN.

THE BONES AND WEEKS EMILY & I WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL TOGETHER.DISSECTING A CAT, H.S. BIOLOGY, 2000

FAMILY GET-TOGETHER AT THE LEWIS

FAMILY GET-TOGETHER AT DOHENY STATE BEACH

THE MATHIS CLAN.

THE GUESS FAMILY THEYRE PREPARING TO GO TO ROMANIA AS MISSIONARIES (MIHAELAS HOME-LAND). CHRIS & I USED TO WORK TOGETHER.HERES A SHOT OF CHRIS, KELLYAND ME IN ROMANIA, 2000 (YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO SPOT SOME OTHERS IN THERETOO). CLICK ON THE PIC FOR A VIDEO OF SOME OF OUR FINEST WORK.

LUKE & MALIAS FAVOURITEST TEACHER FROM MUSOMA, LYNDY, CAME TO VISIT US IN SAN DIEGO WHILE SHE IS ON FURLOUGH. WE TOOK HER APPLE PICKING IN JULIAN, WHICH WAS FUN, ALTHOUGH THE $10-BAG OF APPLES THAT WE PICKED COST $5.50 BACK IN TOWN.

WE TOOK HER TO THE SAN DIEGO ZOO, WHERE WE MET UP WITH PAULA & ROBYANN.

*NOT A REAL BEAR

TRUST ME, ITS A SHORTCUT.WHY DIDNT YOU JUST STOP AND ASK THE MEERKATS LIKE I TOLD YOU TO.

THE MOLCHANOFFS DANIEL & I HAVE BEEN FRIENDS SINCE HIGH SCHOOL & WERE IN EACH OTHERS WEDDING.

JULY, 1995DECEMBER, 1998

THE VAUGHANS ANNA & I WERE IN THE YOUTH GROUP TOGETHER & SHE WAS A BRIDESMAID IN OUR WEDDING.

SPEAKING OF WEDDINGS, WE HAD OUR 8-YEAR ANNIVERSARY IN AUGUST, AND CELEBRATED BY GOING TO BALBOA PARK (WHERE WE WERE MARRIED) & WATCHING THE VIDEO OF THE CEREMONY.

AUGUST 23, 2003

IN AUGUST WE FLEW TO SEATTLE TO VISIT SOME FRIENDS. WE STAYED WITH THE TULLYS, WHOSE KIDS I USED TO BABYSIT WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE.

AS YOU CAN SEE, WEVE ALL INCREASED A LITTLE SINCE THEN.

ELIZABETH, ABIGAIL & ELLIOT, AUGUST 2011ELIZABETH, ABIGAIL & LUKE, JUNE 2007

THE VEGAS ADAM WAS THE BEST MAN AT MY WEDDING. ACTUALLY, HES THE BEST MAN AT JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING, & STILL BEATS ME AT CHESS, RACQUETBALL & SCRABBLE. I HOLD MY OWN IN TABLE-TENNIS, BUT LEAVE HIM FOR DEAD AT GRAMMAR. ITS WHAT I DO.

WHY ARE THE BIRDS SO ANGRY?BECAUSE THE EVIL PIGS STOLE THEIR EGGS.

IN JULY MICHAEL SPOKE AT OUR NEWEST SUPPORTING CHURCH, VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH. WE RETURNED A COUPLE WEEKS LATER TO HELP OUT WITH V.B.S. (VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL).

GUNNAR HANSON IS THE PASTOR THERE. WE WENT TO BIBLE COLLEGE TOGETHER. GUNNAR IS A FORMER NAVY SEAL, AND A FELLOW COFFEE ADDICT. WERE BAD INFLUENCES ON EACH OTHER.

AT V.B.S., KELLY SHOWED THEM A FEW SWAHILI SONGS, WHILE GUNNAR AND I SNUCK OUT THE BACK AND MADE COFFEE.

Greek Week

IN AUGUST, I TOOK AN 8-DAY TRIP TO FRESNO TO PARTICIPATE IN A KOINEGREEK FLUENCY WORKSHOP, RUN BY DR. RANDALL BUTH OF THE BIBLICAL LANGUAGE CENTER. IT WAS A GREAT LEARNING EXPERIENCE, AND WILL GO A LONG WAY IN IMPROVING MY SKILLS IN BIBLE TRANSLATION.Greek Week

Greek WeekMOST OF THE PARTICIPANTS WERE EITHER COLLEGE GREEK PROFESSORS OR GREEK ENTHUSIASTS. EVERY DAY, THE FACILITATORS WOULD SPEAK ONLY GREEK TO US. THEY WOULD USUALLY TELL SIMPLE STORIES OR GIVE COMMANDS, AND WE HAD TO FOLLOW THEM.

!Greek Week

CLICK THE IMAGES TO WATCH SHORT CLIPS ON YOUTUBE OF SOME OF OUR CLASS SESSIONS.THINGS WE DO WITH OUR HANDSGREEK SONGGreek Week

AND THIS IS A HILARIOUS CLIP WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES OF THINGS WE DO IN THE TOILET. THATS RIGHT, THIS IS POTTY HUMOUR AT ITS FINEST IN 2000 YEARS. YOUVE BEEN WARNED!!Greek Week

JUST SO YOU DONT THINK IT WAS ALL AS OUTRAGEOUS AS THAT ONEOF MY FAVOURITE THINGS WAS AT THE END OF EACH DAY, WHEN ONE OF THE FACILITATORS WOULD PRAY IN GREEK. CLICK TO WATCH.Greek Week

ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, WE WERE THE MISSIONARY OF THE WEEKAT SHADOW MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY CHURCH. CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO WATCH A VIDEO OF US BEING PRAYED FOR IN THE SERVICE.30

SO THIS IS IT, FOLKS. WEVE FINISHED OUR FURLOUGH, & WERE HEADING BACK(BACK TO THE SCRIPTURE TRANSLATION) TO TANZANIA FOR OUR NEXT 3-YEAR TERM. WED LIKE TO SAY A BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS HELPED & SUPPORTED US ALONG THE WAY. THIS IS A TEAM EFFORT, & WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM.

FOR THOSE WERE LEAVING BEHIND, WELL MISS YOU MORE THAN YOU CAN KNOW, BUT WERE THANKFUL THAT WE LIVE IN AN AGE WHERE WE CAN EMAIL & USE FACEBOOK TO STAY IN TOUCH.HOME31WHAT WOULD YOU DO?PREACHER FOR A DAYWhile visiting a new church, the pastor comes over to you just before the service starts and whispers in your ear that hed like you to preach that morning. What would you do?

Leave your comments on our website, or email us and well post them there (if theyre good ).32

For Your Prayers:We leave on Wednesday, September 14 to return to Tanzania for probably three years. Pray for the looong trip, which includes two 10-hour flights and a 10-hour bus ride. More importantly, pray that the next three years would be fruitful for Bible translation. Commit our children to God. Pray for peace for our families left behind. And give thanks to God that we (and you) are allowed to be a part of this plan of his.Also, some of you might have heard that we were still waiting for our work permits for Tanzania. We were informed this morning that the permits have been granted and we are all set to return to Tanzania, so praise God for having a clear hand in that process.

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Our Tanzania mailing address is:Michael & Kelly NichollsBox 1235Musoma, TanzaniaEAST AFRICAmichael-kelly_nicholls@wbt.orgor catch us on facebook .

PROBABLY IN A MONTH OR TWO WHEN WE GET THE TIME HMM TIME MAYBE WE SHOULD GO FORWARD TO THEPAST, TO A TIME WHEN WEVE FINSHED ALL THE WORK EXCEPT I DONT REALLY BELIEVE IN TIME TRAVEL. I MEAN, SRSLY, IF ITRAVELED TO THE PAST & CHANGED SOMETHING THAT STOPPED ME FROM BEING BORN, HOW WOULD I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GO TO THE PAST TO CHANGE IT? AND THE WHOLE FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT THEORY JUST MEANS THAT YOU WATCH WHAT JUST HAPPENED FROM A LONG WAY AWAY. AND ITS NOT LIKE YOU COULD SEE YOURSELF IN THE FUTURE ANYWAY, BECAUSE IF YOU STEPPED INTO A MAGIC BOX TO TRAVEL TO THE FUTURE, YOUR FUTURE DOUBLE WOULDT BE THERE BECAUSE HE/SHE STEPPED INTO A MAGIC BOX ONE DAY AND NEVER CAME OUT.SO HEY THANKS FOR READING ANYWAY. SEE YOU SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE. UNLESS YOURE IN A BOX.