Tag: New Tribes Mission

We’ve been home for a couple weeks now. Our flights went well and we were glad to arrive home. We got here in time to see Alisha’s dad, and he actually improved some after we got home. We were able visit with him quite a bit before he started going downhill again; but the last […]

We found out in the last couple days that Alisha’s dad is in very bad health- we knew he wasn’t doing good, we just didn’t know how bad it was. So we will be going back to the states tomorrow to be with him and the family. We just got to our new home last […]

Sometimes things happen slow over here, and sometimes they happen quick. It’s been both slow and quick at times this month. At the end of October, we packed up all our stuff- and threw away or sold much of it- and sent the rest on to the city to which we are moving. Then on the first of […]

Of course, the title of this post is a reference to the Robert Frost poem, for the benefit of my dear mother. And of course, it refers to the fact that we are on the verge of making a big decision as to which region, or road, we will take. I, Lincoln, along with some […]

Selamat pagi (I think that means good morning)- We are on our second full day here. Right now, it’s about 7:40 am. We are currently 15 hours ahead of Pacific Time. So I think that would make it 4:40 pm on the west coast. We have survived two nights (though not without some jet lag confusion […]

A couple of big things have in the last couple weeks. We got an email saying that our visa situation has changed- rather than getting a 2-year language school-sponsored visa, we are having to get a 2 month social visit one. This changed some of the things we need to do before we leave. First, […]