Some of my favorite moments have been when I’m just having a normal day and then something happens to make it a little more interesting. Today dawned a normal day. It has been really hot here lately and the weather has been beautiful. We were at a museum downtown completing a cultural assignment we have [...]
Archive for September, 2008
The Sky is Falling!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Blog Requests
Posted in Uncategorized on September 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Lately I have been going blank on what to write on the blog. So I was thinking, maybe some of you reading have something you’d like me to write about Bolivia or our work here. Maybe I’ve written something that you’d like explained. Anyway, if you have a request for something you’d like to see [...]
Media Madness
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Being in the middle of all that is going on in Bolivia and keeping up with the news coverage of it has really made us see a little bit more about how the media can misrepresent things. For example, we were watching the news the other night and the way it looked, all of Bolivia [...]
Language Evaluation Change
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thanks for all of you who have said you will pray for my language evaluation. Just wanted to let you know it has been changed to early next week. I’ll let you know when!
Language Evaluation
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This Thursday I will have a Spanish language evaluation where I need to test at a certain level before I can begin to learn Quechua. Eight months ago I had my last evaluation and tested at the level just barely below where I need to be. I feel a lot more confident than I did [...]
Don’t Cross The Double Yellow Lines!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Full Life
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Despite the present turmoil, which seems to be calming down by the way, things are really coming together for us here. Our days lately seem to be completely full and don’t end until we fall into bed. We hardly ever eat dinner alone anymore. We’re either sharing it with friends, having church at our house, [...]
Update
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
By now the news has become international that Bolivia is in a state of unrest, and I wanted to give you an update on our situation. All of our team is happily together in Sucre. Jeff and Javier arrived from a trip out this morning. Interestingly enough, on the way into Sucre, Javier, our Peruvian team [...]
Trading Your Birthright (Living Among Poverty Part 2)
Posted in Uncategorized on September 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Go back a few posts for the first part of this topic.
In Hebrews, the author commands his readers to make sure that no one is “unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no [...]
Prayer Request
Posted in Uncategorized on September 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I decided to wait another day to post my continuation of yesterday’s topic because something has come up and I want to ask you to please pray. The situation in the country has gotten worse and it is affecting our work. The country is starkly divided into two parts: those who support the government and [...]
