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Yesterday I was reading in John 13. I came across John 13:7 and thought that it summed things up here quite well. It says, “Jesus replied, ‘You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.’” Sometimes I feel like everyone I meet here could tell me that multiple times a […]

Same: The other day we had spaghetti and meat sauce for lunch. It came complete with a spaghetti claw (if that’s what you call the spoon thing you use to get spaghetti out of the pot with). The tomato sauce even had ground beef in it, which is the only time so far that I’ve […]

There are many things that I’ve encountered so far that are the same as you’d see in the US, but also very different. I thought that you may enjoy hearing about some of them, so as I can I’ll post some here. Same: This morning I saw 4 inflatable Santas, each with white skin and […]

Do you know who won the recent soccer game? It was My Country!! Even though I wasn’t in front of the television for the whole soccer game I could tell each time that they made a goal, since the neighborhood went wild. The game was thousands of miles away, but with each goal it sounded […]

What do you do with cling wrap at 9:45 at night?  Probably not what I did with it. Last night I was on-line looking for a harp to take with me to West Africa (since I don’t think I’ll be able to bring my big one with me).  Sadly, a smaller harp means less strings.  […]

Before leaving on a long trip (and I consider moving to West Africa for 20 years or so a long trip, even though I will be coming home every few years), it’s good to see old friends. So that’s exactly what I did this last month – I took a plane to Boston, and then […]

I just bought another New Testament.  The interesting thing about this one is that it’s in Hawaii Pidgin, so while it’s semi-readable to English speakers, it’s not written how I would normally talk. I went to the beginning of Ephesians, one of my favorite books of the Bible.  Ephesians 1:1 in Hawaii Pidgin says, “Aloha!  […]

Yesterday at church the pastor told a story about some neighbors of his when he lived in another state.  One family had their house up for sale, and another family gave them a little statue of a saint to bury in their backyard, saying that if they did so their house would sell faster.  My […]

How does listening to music and watching dancers from across the globe sound?  I got to do just that on Saturday at the International Festival in Madison.  You would have loved the colorful costumes, the different music, and the dancing.  And if that’s not up your alley, maybe the Kung Fu fighters would have appealed more […]

It’s easy to read the Bible and see the mighty ways that God acted in the past and think, “Yeah, that’s what he used to do.”  It’s true.  That is how God worked in the past.  But what we often forget is that God is still working today, and He’s doing amazing things! Look at […]