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Daniel played guitar and sang with the praise team in church this morning. He even led the congregation in one song. He is very gifted, and leads naturally.

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Ice skating? No. Soup kitchen? No. Worship service? No. Snow. Not lots, but enough to preclude a trip into town that was not absolutely necessary. The pastor was disappointed, not because we didn’t help out in the soup kitchen, but because he wanted to spend time with us! We will make up for that tomorrow after church and next week when we go to the university and meet up with people there. The pastor is coming with us. It’s nice to be wanted.

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Yesterday evening ended this morning, so I can blog about it. Ashley gave one of the students her truck to drive to music practice. On the way home, he made a wrong turn, and when he attempted to turn around, the truck hit a patch of ice and slid into the ditch. Continue reading →

Warmer today: minus 22 degrees. Heat wave from yesterday of minus 61. The cold literally took our breath away. The throat tingled and dried out instantly. Can’t stay outside for more than just a minute or two. In comparison, today we could have worn bathing suits. Continue reading →

Four lessons in one day. Fewer breaks. Excellent discussions on missionary children’s education and missionary lifestyle (living at the same level of the missionary’s target audience).

Spoke with Ashley’s pastor. He will be going ice skating with the team on Saturday. I’m still taking a book. He asked me to say a couple of words to the congregation in church on Sunday. He said that he had not had the time to prepare the congregation for our visit, but hoped that we had had a good time. I told him that the students came away from the service saying, “Wow! Those people are really friendly!” I said that we wouldn’t know what to expect if the congregation was prepared:) He said that would greatly encourage the congregation. Continue reading →

50 degrees below zero…finally! Clear skies, clean air, total quiet. The scrunching of boots on the snow sounds sacrilegious. Phil went outside to take pictures of the sun creeping up behind a building on the property. He got a shot of the light streaming through an open window like a laser. He came inside with ice cycles hanging on his nose. Continue reading →

We had one lesson today: enculturation and acculturation (google it). Daniel, from Florida, understood mild acculturation when he moved to Spokane. Daniel, from Chicago, identified as well. Minji…well, Minji was born in South Korea, she has been working with her missionary parents in Bangladesh, and she flew in from India to join us on this trip. Continue reading →