A whole year part 1

May 23, 2019

If you are like me, you have probably wondered “why do missionary’s get a whole year of vacation time while most people that support them only get a week or two?” One way to explain it is… we are like politicians. No we don’t get paid to lie! In fact we pride ourselves on being […]

The Ordination Council

October 21, 2014

Thank you all who were praying for me during my Ordination Council. Something happened to me that I did not expect… I enjoyed myself! Sharing what I believed with men who wanted me to succeed was great. The greatest blessing was when they asked me a question I did not know the answer to, the […]

Are you my mother?

June 2, 2014

As an MK (missionary kid) I frequently heard the question, “So, where is home?” Normally I would answer, “Wherever my family is.” Now I am faced with the same question and that answer will not work! It hit us yesterday, “We are leaving our families!” We think we finally understand that saying “home is where […]

We finished our training!

March 10, 2014

You have no idea how excited and relieved we are! We will now be officially raising support and headed to Brazil as soon as we get enough. At this point we have 17% percent of what we need. Thank you to those who are already giving! The mission has required us to have 75% before […]

Blue heard right!

February 19, 2014

Amber speaking here…. As many of you know, it is easy to have miscommunication in a marriage. So one thing that we like to say is, “What did blue hear?” or “What did pink hear?” Usually the opposite color says, “No that is not what I meant at all!” So here is a little story […]

We made it to Tahlequah, Oklahoma!

January 19, 2014

We are staying at a Christian camp. There are only six of us and a baby (no not our baby and no I am not pregnant yet 🙂 We are all staying in the same building. We cook and eat together. So far it has been quite fun….however… We actually have work to do! I […]

How do you love God?

November 19, 2013

Life has been extremely busy for me and Amber. We have been analyzing multiple languages to see what they can do. We will analyze over 140 different languages this semester. This last month we have had some very difficult languages. Consequently, we haven’t had a lot of free time. God has been teaching us about […]

Cry…then do a jig!

August 19, 2013

Linguistics has begun… It’s been only two weeks of class and I’ve cried three times already! This class is hard! Sometimes I just don’t understand what the teacher is talking about and all I can do is sit there and cry. For the most part Stephen understands it more than I do but he has […]

The number one reason missionaries are leaving the field…

February 9, 2013

Preparing to teach the kids at church what I had learned in the training, I was reminded… The reason most missionaries are leaving the field is because they can’t get along with their co-workers! Thinking back on the conversation the previous night… “I just want to quit this ministry,” I cried. Leading me with a […]