When we’re out in My Village, it’s not all about the houses, but there’s a lot of language, culture, and relationships, too.  This last time out there I was able to get a few pictures to show you that I  really do work and not just goof off.  🙂  The above picture is of me […]

Thanks for your prayers for my peanut/bean field!  My host mom and others planted it for me after they got seeds.  Thanks to them!  When I was out there this last time Jen and I got to visit our fields, and here you’ll see me among my baby peanut plants.  All is going well so […]

And yes, after another trip out to My Village last week, I have another update on our houses.  Since the last time I was out there, the tiles have been done in the bathrooms!  It’s kind of hard to tell in this picture, but they’re purple and white.   When I first looked into my […]

Sorry this post is a week late.  Life happens.   You can see the pictures of my house as it stood last Friday.  The front porch was done except for a ramp to bring your motorcycle in the house at night (here it’s unthinkable to let your motorcycle sleep anywhere but in the house)!  My […]

  At 5’3″, I’m not used to being called the tall one. But that’s exactly how I was referred to . . . The other day I was chatting with my host mom (in Jula), and she was telling me more about life on their end when we were about to move in. She had […]

My Uncle Steve said that next time I’m in the US I need to teach him how to tie stuff onto his motorcycle. I figured I’d give it some more practice today as I was buying stuff that I’ll need for the village. So on my way home from downtown I had: Between my legs: […]

  When you are about to move into a little village full of people who speak a different language and have a different culture, and who have never heard the good news about Jesus, what do you need to do?  Well, there are a bazillion different steps, and I don’t even know all the steps […]

On July 1st I posted about planting corn with my host mom, and also asking for prayer about whether or not I could actually plant a peanut field this year like I was hoping to do. In the post, I said that I’d have to plant it soon and didn’t know if I’d have time. […]

Sometimes it’s hard to keep my eyes on the big picture. It’s easy to get bogged down in the details of life: to worry about all the things that need to be done before I can FINALLY move into the village one of these days instead of realizing what a great honor and privilege and […]

  When my parents came in December, they brought gifts from some people in the US. In one of those, there were chocolate pudding mixes! I made one a while ago in the city, but since I had made it with powdered milk instead of regular milk (since the powdered variety is much more common […]