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Baby Wearing
Baby wearing is not a new fad. For hundreds, maybe thousands of years, the Nahuatl and other indigenous mothers have been wearing their babies. Here is a 16 year old mother with her one year old: I got to try my hand, or my back, at this ancient practice. Katie was checking language with one […]
This week
This week our house became a movie theater – complete with snacks: Tang and animal crackers! The early showing was Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The second showing was Planet Earth. Both were much enjoyed! This week we studied Nahuatl. We have a language evaluation soon, so we practiced as much as […]
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A New Day
“May you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes […]
Home Sweet Home
This is our home in our little village at the edge of a mesa. This is the first glimpse of the village from the road as we travel in. After 5.5 hours of a very bumpy, bouncy ride it’s a site for sore eyes!
A Time of Refreshment
These last two months in the US and Canada have been a wonderful time of rest and rejuvenation. I was able to spend 5 days in the mountains of Colorado with my brother, Josh, and some other friends. I celebrated the marriage of one of my cousins. And, spend time with my aunts and uncles […]
The Kitchen
One of the elements of the Holy Week festival in the ceremonial center is food. Within about 10 minutes of arriving in town, a young man about 20 came and offered us food. He escorted us to one of the two “cocinas” set up in the main area of town. His father, we learned, was […]
Progression
Now, we’re all ready to put our roof on and pour our concrete floors. As soon as that is done, we will move in!
Cuties
Some of the cute kids of our village…