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I thought I’d send you a few pictures to show you the progress on our houses in My Village. The house with the walls mainly up is Jen’s house last Wednesday evening, and the one with the foundation in place is mine that same day. But now that it’s been a few days, I imagine […]

Saturday was my 30th birthday. I’m so old! But I also realized: – When I was 0, I spoke 0 languages. – When I was 10, I spoke 1 language pretty well – English. – When I was 20, I spoke 2 languages pretty well – English and French. – When I’m 30, I speak […]

One time when I came back to the US for a visit, I brought some of this with me. It looks like a little chalky rock, and people here enjoy it as a snack-ish thing. Pregnant ladies especially like to suck on it. Some of you tried it but didn’t think very highly of it. […]

The night before last I had a dream. And like most dreams, this one was a bit odd. But at the end of it, it turned into a type of high school reunion with my graduating class. And one of the guys (whose name I can’t remember for the life of me!) came over and […]

It has now been over 4 years since I first moved to My Country. (January marked the 4-year point.) It’s hard to believe that the kids who were just starting high school when I left are now starting college or that the kids in the 2-year-old Sunday school class I helped with sometimes are now […]

After a long wait, I have an update on Rachida. And it’s an encouraging one! She and her grandmother Kadi arrived back from from another West African country on Saturday and I was able to go and see them on Sunday. Rachida was happy that I came to visit, though she didn’t remember her mom […]

Sorry that this post isn’t beautiful with the pictures nicely organized, but I wanted to at least let you see the progress on my house in My Village!  In the first picture, you’ll see the guy making bricks for my house.  I videoed him and timed him.  After his co-worker got the cement and sand […]

(NOTE: I wrote this last Thursday, February 16th, but forgot to post it on here. Sorry!) I have good news and bad news to share with you.  Let me start with the bad news, which will lead to the good news. Bad News The bad news is that it’s a lot more exhausting and draining […]

  Language is like a mosaic. When you have the right words and know how to put them together, it can be absolutely beautiful. Think of all the millions of things you can communicate with a limited number of words. You use different ones and put them together in different ways, and you get a […]

Isn’t God amazing sometimes? Or, more accurately, isn’t God’s constant amazing-ness visible to us sometimes? It took me about a year to be able to visit the 19-20 main villages of our people group. But just now, in a period of only 10 days, I was able to stop and at least greet someone in […]