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  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 […]

Thanks for your continued prayers for Rachida, and sorry that I haven’t posted an update in a long time.  With them being in another country it’s kind of hard to figure out what the new news really is.  But today I have an update, so I’d like to share it with you so that you […]

My mom likes to have “new taste sensations” sometimes as she tries new food. And I unknowingly gave my host mom a new taste sensation last week as well! Here in the city, it’s green bean season. The season starts just before Christmas and it’s going to come to a close pretty soon. My parents […]

In My Village, they often feed us fish with our meal. Not being a fish person, I was excited on this last trip out there that one day I got some meat instead! I saw that it was a little leg, so I assumed it was rabbit, which I’d been fed there before. I ate […]

It’s a whole new world.  That’s what my parents thought when they set foot in My Village.  Unlike the city where I have been living, My Village is more like you would picture Africa to be, with mud huts and animals (but just domestic ones like cows, donkeys, goats, sheep, chickens, dogs, cats, etc.) wandering […]

We all know that we all go number 2, but in US culture it’s not the politest thing to talk about. However, here it’s a normal part of conversation, and can even be part of a dinner conversation without anyone raising eyebrows. So here’s the warning that this is about manure and dog poop, so […]

    We all learn how to ride bikes as children, and they say that once you learn you never forget. So it shouldn’t have been that hard when I picked one up in the village on Tuesday after having not ridden one for a few years, right? Well, I think it gave lots of […]

In Jula, the word “tulu” has a larger range of meaning than its English counterpart. In Jula, it means any kind of lotion, but it also means oil, including cooking oil, as well as the fat on meat. It appears that the same thing may be true in the language of My People. The other […]