After my last post the week got much better. We had visitors come and stay with us from Arequipa, Peru’s next biggest city. Kyle and Larissa Smith are missionaries there and their intern, Rachel, came to town with them. They had to take care of some paper work. The Smiths have Shaye, who is three [...]
Yesterday I was just not feeling too well most of the day, but wasn’t sure why. When I picked the boys up from school at noon, we had to make a run to the grocery store. Did you know that it’s a bad idea to take your kids to the store with you when they [...]
I remember once, when I was really still very young, maybe 5 or 6, we were all in our car driving somewhere through Texas or Oklahoma and I was watching an endless supply of telephone polls and rows of crops streaming by when I asked, “How many rabbits do you think are in that field?” [...]
The summer between my sophmore and junior years of college I spent about six weeks as a counselor at one of Kanakuk’s sports camp, KAA–the camp for inner-city kids. Though I was missing my home away from homes, Camp of the Hills, where I had spent the last two summers as a counselor to the [...]
