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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 […]

      Here are the most up-to-date pictures of my house for those of you following its progress. The first picture is the outside of my house. The second is my living room. The third is Jen’s bedroom. You’ll notice that we now have ceilings and our cement floors! And that they’re getting painted. […]

  How many of you have heard a child say that? “I’m full. But can I have a treat?” The answer the adults usually give is that if the child is too full to finish their dinner, they are also too full to eat something sweet. However, I don’t think that My People would have […]

  This Saturday, Rachida and her grandma Kadi were able to come over! And I got a whole different story from them than what I had posted last time (blogs.ethnos360.org/susie-l/2017/06/02/prayer-needed-for-little-rachida/). Unlike in March, Rachida can’t see anything anymore. But Kadi said that that is because Rachida now has cataracts in addition to her retinoblastoma cancer. […]

  Last time I was out in the village, I was able to help them plant corn! It was rather back breaking work, but at least with several of us working on it together, we had lots of stretch breaks. See the lines in the picture? Those are ropes tied to sticks, showing us how […]

In translating the Bible into a new language, there are all sorts of challenges. One of those challenges is that certain words don’t exist in the language you’re translating it into. For example, in training, I had heard about languages that did’t have a generic word “brother,” and had to either say “older brother” or […]

  Thanks for your continued prayers for our houses in the village. Here’s a picture of my house the last day I was there. However, that was now over 2 weeks ago, since I just got back from 2 weeks in Senegal for some training in curriculum development. When I called on Tuesday, I was […]

  As we take trips out to My Village, Jen and I stay with our host moms and their families since our houses aren’t finished yet. As such, my host mom takes care of me and provides what I need – warm water for bucket showers, food, water, etc. Everyone else in the village has […]