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enjoying friends from southern Oregon 🙂 We arrived in Seattle on Sunday evening, tired, but very thankful and nostalgic… we thought back on our road trips- We’ve made 8 cross-country road trips in the last 4 years. That is +/- 16,800 miles! We’ve had a total of 0 accidents, 0 breakdowns, 1 trip to Les […]

Finally, the amazing sights and smells of the beautiful PNW! As we left the (stinky) Salt Lake City area, the sun peeked over the hills (do they call those ‘mountains’? Not sure… hehe). After we all recovered from our “great” (?) salt lake-induced nausea (oh my!), we had an uneventful drive across the salt flats, […]

I learned a great word in Jula today, and I’m sure you’ll agree. The word is “ciden.” Here, kids are often sent to go buy or get something. For example, “Joceba, here’s 20 cents. Run next door to the Mom and Pop shop and buy some soap so I can wash my clothes.” The word […]

On Tuesday we drove up into the beautiful Rocky Mountains! We had a good, full two weeks in Colorado, enjoying relatives, seeing friends and making new friends, and worshiping our Lord with them at their churches. I also completed my preliminary Cherokee Linguistic write-up. Oh and by preliminary, I mean PREEEEEE-liminary. 🙂 I’m thankful for the […]

So, sometimes God doesn’t answer your requests quite like you imagine:) As you know the process has had its little ups and downs. Today… I THINK we had an up!!!! Our power of attorney was asked to come back today and we thought maybe the “administrative review” was finished and they would ask him to […]

It’s been a while since I’ve shared what I’m learning in Jula with you, so here is a new fun word – tigi. “Tigi” could be translated as “possessor of.” So someone with tomatoes can be called “tomati tigi.” Someone with maps (“carti” in Jula) is “carti tigi.” If someone is walking down the street […]

Today I went to a ceremony with my Jula teacher instead of having regular class. I knew we were going somewhere, but it wasn’t until we were most of the way there that I learned where we were going. It was the inauguration of a new meeting building, where ladies groups (and other groups) can […]

If only it was THIS simple! Here we are now, settling in for 3 weeks at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It’s beautiful and peaceful here, and we’re enjoying fellowship with some special Colorado relatives and friends. Phonemics and Grammar (!!) We are spending this time here so that I can do my linguistic […]

Just an update… Our first visa interview didn’t happen, but the rescheduled visa interview happened today! It went well, however sometimes the US Embassy puts their cases on “administrative review” for a while to find out more info. They usually don’t give their reasons why. This is the case with our adoption. Friends of ours […]

It’s back to school time here in My Country. And you know that that means it’s school supply buying time, too. For the kids here who are sponsored through Compassion International, today was school supply day. Their parents came and picked up a backpack full of their needed school supplies for each sponsored child. (Sorry […]