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I must admit that sometimes I do let little things bug me. I know I shouldn’t, but it’s easy to get stressed out when you are trying to go somewhere and things land I your path. I really need to remember to be thankful that they didn’t land in my ear, down my shirt, or […]

The rice fields are green now, but in about two weeks they will start turning a golden yellow and the rice harvest will begin. Thank you for praying for this year’s crop. Storms haven’t caused any damage so far. We are thankful that last year’s harvest has not been consumed and people are not suffering […]

We all know what it’s like to have friends drop in for a visit. We enjoy visiting with people who drop by. But when it comes to dropping in, nobody can compete with people who have helicopters. They are the worst! Just kidding. They are the best! Last week we had a surprise visit from […]

I spend a lot of time at my desk drafting and re-drafting translation as passages work their way through the translation process, so sometimes it is hard to think of something new to put in our weekly update. Not this week. John Silver is new. He arrived two days ago and lives a few houses […]

It’s been a rainy week. A couple of typhoons passed by, but thankfully they didn’t pass directly over us. We made substantial progress on translation last week. Heidi finished up a comprehension check on the book of Acts and I finished the first draft for the book of Romans. There is still a lot of […]

It is really difficult to be here! There are just too many distractions. For example, I’m trying to get translation done and these huge colorful butterflies keep landing on the flowers outside my window. It’s horrible. We have a lot to be thankful for. God has answered our prayers for baby Owen. He has fully […]

Believe it or not, but this might actually be a microscopic picture taken of my brain cells this past week. They were busy thinking about the things that were going on: the water pipe to the village broke, a pipe in my office started leaking. I suspect that the leak had something to do with […]

They say that you don’t really appreciate something until you lose it. I suppose there is some truth in that, but for missionaries, the saying runs a bit differently. For missionaries, it goes like this: You don’t really write about something until you lose it. That is why when you read missionary blogs you will […]

This picture is a little under exposed, so you probably can’t tell we are smiling, but we are. Heidi and I enjoyed our two nights at the beach. It was a beautiful place to have a vacation. After returning to town, we visited our Isnag friends who were in the hospital and are happy to […]

Manila has some things we don’t have up north: taxis, cement sidewalks, and malls, but this week we are happily trading those things for grass, trees, and fresh air. Our time in the big city did serve its purpose. Vicky and the team worked very hard and produced a complete set of primers and readers […]