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Day 11 of 21: Life here

July 18, 2014

I know you guys loved the last time I did this when we lived in M adang…So without further ado…here are some ways you can relate to us in bush orientation! Our House: *We live in a house that is about 380 sq. feet in size. It’s a little small for a family of […]

Day 10 of 21: Fear

July 16, 2014

While we were traveling around telling everyone about the people in Papua New Guinea, we described them as people who live in fear. If someone gets sick, they have to figure out who spoke the words against them to make them sick. So they live in fear to please people and spirits. When they are […]

Day 9 of 21: Building forts

July 15, 2014

How can you have endless hours of fun playing with someone that doesn’t even speak the same language as you?! You can ask our kids! They have done the best job adjusting to this very different culture! They find friends wherever we go, and run around and laugh with them. Even though they speak two […]

Day 8: Sleeping in a Hut

July 14, 2014

June 13, 2014 (BJ) Wow, I am exhausted. I feel like I just finished a half marathon! I just got back from a “camping” trip with several men from the village here. Yesterday morning we left Wusuraambya and headed down the trail for Marawaka, a little “town” which is a 6 hour hike across the […]

Day 7 of 21: No more…but thank you!

July 13, 2014

I think I’ve told you before, that the staple food here is sweet potatoes and greens (not lettuce, more like grass or leaves!) The people here live off of this. They eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (if they eat 3 meals, most don’t), and they even eat it for special events!! The people […]

Day 6 of 21: mmmmm…coffee!!

July 12, 2014

Today, we had the best time as a family! We all hiked about 30 minutes to a believer man’s coffee garden. You can’t just go to anyone’s garden, you have to be invited. And most wouldn’t want you to go to their garden, because they are afraid of taboo! But Peter is a believer, and […]

Day 5 of 21: End of the Earth Church

July 11, 2014

Sunday was really fun. The kids and I, Andrew (the missionary who lives here) and Josh (his teenage son) all hiked over to the next village for church. The girls did great. Olivia hiked with Josh the whole way, Sophie held mine and Andrew’s hands and jumped most of the way, and of course Graham […]

Day 4 of 21: First mumu (not a nightgown!)

July 10, 2014

Wow, we have gotten to do so much here in just these few days. Today, I got to be a part of working a mumu. In this case, a mumu is not an old lady’s nightgown! It is a big feast where you cook the food under the ground. Yesterday, BJ helped Enoch, a man […]

Day 3 of 21: Funeral

July 9, 2014

Day 3: I got to go to my first funeral. I didn’t know quite what to expect. I’ve only been to a handful of funerals in America, so that is all I had to compare it to. We hiked a good ways (I left the kids at home with BJ) and got to the location. […]

Day 2 of 21: Food supply

July 8, 2014

Well, remember my list of the whole month’s supply for food? It got here…most of it. The brownies, chocolate chips, and applesauce didn’t make it, but I think we’ll live. Actually, we didn’t get all of our diapers either and pull ups, so we are trying to see how that is going to work! I […]