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THankful THirteenTH Friends who laugh are a gift! My host family and I have had a number of good laughs over my language blunders. Here are some examples of what happens when you just switch a couple of letters. repasar = to mop/clean up reposar = to rest/recover One Sunday evening I wanted to ask my […]

THankful THirteenTH To you, O LORD, I cry, and to the Lord I plead for mercy: Psalm 30:8 Complaining. That is how I have viewed lamenting in the past. We know we aren’t supposed to complain. Whiners haven’t accepted the life God has given them. They want something different, a little bit more, another life, […]

THankful THirteenTH This is my first plant here in Paraguay and it was a sweet gift from my friends Jemy and Larry! It is one step in building relationships and it also provides me with new opportunities. I already chatted with a lady about how to take care of it which resulted in my walking to […]

THankful THirteenTH Tuesday newspapers include an extra section called the “Escolar.” It is additional paper with a collection of activities and stories designed for kids. It has simpler language, more pictures, shorter articles, and a variety of material closer to my language level – meaning it is a fun but useful addition to my language study. […]

Sanctified by the Power of God I am thankful that our sanctification is in the hands of the Almighty God. Sanctification may be a confusing term since the Bible and church are the only places we hear it. Sanctification is the process of a follower of Christ becoming more and more like Him in character. We can’t […]

Learning language and studying culture is like Swiss cheese. That’s right. The learning process is full of holes. Years of immersion and hundreds, even thousands, of hours of studying can still result in an incomplete understanding of what people are saying and thinking. These “holes” in my understanding of culture and language will be normal. Here in Paraguay I […]