Category: Learning

We are actually at the table!!!  Eating like the big people!  Before, we were like the puppies under the table nibbling on the crumbs, never getting enough to eat and feeling so empty.  No I’m not talking about real food but spiritual and emotional.  We are now understanding so much that it actually feels like […]

Why is she talking to me in English? Help! It was a huge blessing when Amber’s parents came to visit for a week.  While they were here, Heidi (Amber’s mom) would talk on and on to the Brazilians in English and they would turn to us and say Help me! It was a lot of fun having them there with us, and […]

~A conversation from missions conference (translated to English for your benefit 🙂 Amber: You have been in the tribe for 18 years and still don’t know the language?  Wow! We have been discouraged because it has almost been 1 year and we still don’t know the language.  How do you stay encouraged after so much […]

“You don’t have idols in your house do you?”  Our neighbor asked as we sat in their house which has 4 statues of Mary in the living room.  We responded, “no.”  What else do you say to that? “I can’t get into an accident because if I die I will go DOWN!”  said the taxi […]

We spent a week in Santos, São Paulo with a family from the school here.  They said it was so we could have a vacation.  It was really great but far from a vacation.  Never have our brains been so tired. However, we did get to learn a lot more about culture and listened to […]

Here is the hospital where we will have our first baby in November!  Yes, I’m pregnant!!!!!!!!!!! It is only about half a mile from our house!             The gate to “the land of the Americans.”  That is what the people in town call the New Tribes Mission Training Center in […]