Author: Chris and Maggie Hostetter

Here’s our family Christmas photo. Happy Holidays!!!

Christmas is always a special time of year, and our family really enjoyed the holiday this past week. We ate special food and gave each other gifts and enjoyed taking some time off to be together. It’s amazing to watch our kids grasp the spiritual significance of the season more and more each year, as […]

I’m almost forgot to blog about the last day of blog week. It’s mid-day Thursday now and most of the memories from yesterday are fading like dreams after you wake up. Anyways, Wednesday was pretty similar to Tuesday. I spent the whole morning in my office and ignored the rest of the world. Maggie was […]

Nothing much exciting happened today so you can just skip reading this one. Normal morning, homemade toast for breakfast, I was in the office working on translation by 7:30am. By mid-morning I had numerous guys in and out my office but I mostly ignored them and trudged forward on my work. (There’s currently not a […]

My alarm (my kids) didn’t go off this morning so I didn’t get my teeth brushed or my face shaved before I headed out the door for Post Literacy class (disgusting, I know). I did get three pieces of home-made toast and a banana into me though before throwing on the mud boots and tromping […]

No sleeping in today. Sundays are my day to get up the with the kids and make them breakfast (Maggie’s day is Saturday), and so I was up with the son. . .s and daughters and we had waffles for breakfast. Nate and I got together for prayer at 8:45 and then 9:30 was church […]

This one is going to be short, because 3 long blog posts 3 days in a row is too much for me. Today involved sleeping in a bit, visiting with some Pal folks (who came to us, we didn’t go to them), playing outside with the kids, playing soccer on the chopper pad with some […]

After homemade bread toast for breakfast and devos I went to the office (3 paces from the kitchen) and got to work. I spent the first part of the morning printing things for the next literacy class and then I left the office around 10am to just go hang with some peeps. Since finishing language […]

I was planning on posting about our translation workshop and doing a Happy Thanksgiving post but those are long gone now and I didn’t have a whole lot to say about them anyway. So, here’s the new thing I’m going to (try and) do. For the next week I’m going to journal each day about […]

The wooden ‘boat’ in the picture is called a manapa. When you beat it with the heavy stick its’ reverberating boom can be heard from a long ways off and it’s usually used to signal community gatherings. This one is located by the Literacy school and we would bang it about ten minutes before school […]