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Father’s Day

June 21, 2010 – 11:36 pm

I’m glad that Peru has a lot of the same nationally recognized holidays as you do in the States.  Mother’s Day and Father’s Day being the most recent ones.  We had a great Father’s Day weekend and even started celebrating how great of a Daddy we have around here a little early.  Like last Thursday. [...]

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Our Pascua (Passover in Spanish) Celebration

April 18, 2010 – 2:54 pm

Sorry for the long delay between posts.  Among other things, I started my language intensive study last Monday.  Keep praying, because God is answering my prayers in big ways when it comes to learning the language here.  I went to school every day this week, I’ve learned a lot, and my confidence in speaking Spanish [...]

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Humbled by Hospitality–Part 2

April 9, 2010 – 12:51 am

Sara has three daughters and two sons; ages 15, 13, 10, 6, and 4.  At about 11:00 AM on Good Friday two of her daughters showed up at our house.  We all piled in our car and they directed us to their house.  Manchay is the kind of district that reminds Wes and I of [...]

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Humbled by Hospitality – Part 1

April 6, 2010 – 10:57 pm

It has been our intention all along to begin inviting Peruvians that we meet over for dinner and to create opportunities for developing relationships.  Well, after seven months we’ve had Bible studies in our home and times when we’ve hung out and talked with Peruvians that we have met, but we hadn’t yet had a [...]

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