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We had a wonderful time with Grandma and Grandpa playing (and wrestling), showing them around, and hitting some beaches. But, vacations can’t last forever (in this life) and so they had to say goodbye and head back home. Two days after we sadly said our goodbyes to them, we came back home to Pal. We’re […]

Adopt a Pal Family! As we rapidly approach the day when we will teach the Pal people the Word of God we invite you to become part of a Pal person’s life. We are asking you to faithfully pray daily for a Pal person or family during these months leading up to Phase 1 teaching […]

Over a period of five days Nate and I had Bible lesson writing checks, and Nate, Maggie, and I all had translation checks. Three consultants flew to Pal and stayed with us for those five days as we did all those checks. On the first day, I did my lesson writing check with a consultant […]

Here’s the scoop from Pal land. • The paper chain in the picture represents the days until Grandma and Grandpa Hostetter come to visit. We’re looking forward to seeing them, (it’s been almost 2 and a half years). • Our coworkers Axel and Sandra Fachner are proud to announce the birth of Lilly Valeska Fachner […]

I love my hose. It’s about a foot long, and it’s attached to the faucet in the sink on my back porch. I love it because it saves my fingers. Apparently my fingers can’t deal with stress. When they feel overwhelmed, instead of talking about it like normal fingers, they crack and bleed and complain […]

A couple of days ago we had a visit from a man who hiked for about two hours to see us. Chris and Nate had interacted with him on several occasions, and Chris had gone to see him in his home village before and talked about what it is we’re here to do. Well, this […]

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 […]