"The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit." (Psalm 34:18) Yesterday I received the news that on Thursday Rachida past from this world to the next. Thank you to all of you who have faithfully walked this journey with us over the past two years. And even though Rachida’s life […]

One of the perks of missionaries having to travel around a lot during their home assignment (furlough) time is that sometimes we get to visit fun tourist attractions. One of those that I visited lately with my friend Heather and her mom was Jamestown Settlement in Virginia. We learned a lot about the settlers who […]

Hi from the US!  Isn’t that fun to say? I’ve been working with words all day, trying to get the word list of My Language out of my notebook and onto my computer, so let me share some numbers with you as a break from words: 1 – I’ve been in the US just over […]

I just talked to Awa, Rachida’s mom!  She said that today they got the results back from the “scanner” (CAT scan? MRI?) that had been ordered a while ago.  She said that there are lots of masses in Rachida’s brain, but that it’s from the injections, not from cancer.  But she said that she doesn’t […]