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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, […]

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. Jen’s ceilings are […]

  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. The […]

  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 […]