{"id":407,"date":"2011-12-28T01:47:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T05:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/?p=407"},"modified":"2011-12-28T01:47:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T05:47:19","slug":"merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/2011\/12\/28\/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have a great New Year.\u00a0 Our last week has been pretty good but Christmas day itself wasn&#8217;t very enjoyable.\u00a0 Maggie came down sick Christmas Eve and spent most of Christmas day in bed.\u00a0 She got up long enough in the morning for the kids to open all their presents and then went back to bed.\u00a0 The kids had a great day playing with their new toys.\u00a0 Their favorites are the water guns, marble chaser, and two swings up on our porch.\u00a0 Now Maisie is constantly badgering us to push her on her new swing.<\/p>\n<p>The day before Christmas we went to a local hotel that also has a restaurant and a pool and enjoyed pizza and swimming.\u00a0 The pictures below are from that outing.<\/p>\n<p>The last week and a half there&#8217;s been a volleyball tournament happening at a house-line about a 45 minute hike from here and so I&#8217;ve spent a few of my afternoons there supporting the teams from our area and playing on one of those teams.\u00a0 Today started the &#8220;knockout&#8221; round of the tournament where teams start to get eliminated as they work up to the Championship to be played on Saturday.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t make it out there today so I&#8217;m hoping my team will still be alive when I go out there tomorrow afternoon.\u00a0 Either way its been a good place to practice language and build more friendships.\u00a0 We play outdoors in the sun and rain.\u00a0 Yesterday, it started sprinkling just before our second game and our court soon became as slippery as ice.\u00a0 It made for some good fun.<\/p>\n<p>In January we&#8217;ll be heading out on Bush Orientation.\u00a0 We will be spending 6 weeks in a tribe to &#8220;experience bush living and have hands-on experience in dealing with tribal people.&#8221;\u00a0 We&#8217;ll continue to work on our pidgin study while there and hopefully be fluent by the time we get back.\u00a0 Pray for us as we go into this.\u00a0 It will be us and one other missionary family in the tribe and we&#8217;ll be isolated from medical clinics and groceries stores and the other things we&#8217;re used to and take for granted.\u00a0 This is the kind of ministry we&#8217;ll be eventually heading into full-time so this will be a good trial run for us and for our kids.<\/p>\n<p>Alrighty, I&#8217;m done talking.\u00a0 Have a great day!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-409\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-409\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1415-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Bailey\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1415-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1415-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bailey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-410\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-410\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1412-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Cole is airborne!\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1412-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1412-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cole is airborne!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-411\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-411\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1409-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maisie\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1409-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1409-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maisie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-408\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-408\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1411-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Airborne Micah\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1411-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chris-hostetter\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1411-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Airborne Micah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have a great New Year.\u00a0 Our last week has been pretty good but Christmas day itself wasn&#8217;t very enjoyable.\u00a0 Maggie came down sick Christmas Eve and spent most of Christmas day in bed.\u00a0 She got up long enough in the morning for the kids to open all 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