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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 […]

Since a picture paints 1000 words, I won’t say much since this post is already rather wordy at 4000+ words. 🙂 But you’ll notice that my house is now painted! In the pictures you’ll see my house, my living room, my bedroom, and then my spare bedroom. That wooden door is now painted as well, […]