*Fair warning, this blog post is about a pig with an injured penis. There are many pig penis pictures and much pig penis humor (or at least attempts at it). * So, as you may know, we got a pig a few months back. Now, the main purpose of having Read more…
*pictures at the end, just in case you’re a bit squeamish!* It started in the early morning, when Rhett started making our morning coffee and heard someone downstairs just knocking on things and coughing and making a ton of “natural” noise. This was barely past sunrise! Way too early for Read more…
Our friend Kavaluku came to visit the other day. He’s kind of the “cool” uncle who is part of the older generation, but still young enough to show off his dancing and who climbs the massive trees to cut down branches (but mostly to brag that he’s still got it). Read more…
I’ve been noticing a theme lately. Many times since we’ve moved here, I have thought that life here was quite overwhelming. With medical cases to fumble through, relationships to build, and a full quiver of children needing schooling and attention, it has often felt, in the words of Tolkien, “like Read more…
I remember preparing to come to the field and expressing that one of the reasons I wanted to serve overseas was because there would be ample opportunity (and in fact, necessity), to trust in the Lord’s wisdom and providence. I was too easily lulled into complacency in the States and Read more…
Word on the street is that Qatar Airways has been keeping the world moving through the whole pandemic. I don’t know how true that is, but it was true in our situation. Normally we fly the “short” way around the world across the pacific, but this time we’d have to go the long way around.
This last term on the field we discovered the joys of maintaining glasses and contacts in the bush. Did you know contact solution can’t be found in your typical PNG pharmacy? We didn’t either, and so when we arrived on the field we found ourselves quite undersupplied. Eventually Stacie’s glasses became a Frankenstein creation barely hanging in there with copious helpings of tape, hot glue, epoxy, and very gentle face movements.
We made this video to summarize our first 3.5 years in Papua New Guinea. Hope you enjoy!
I’ve always thought of myself as flexible and pretty laid back, able to go with the flow pretty easily. The thing about growth is that perhaps we may find that our image of ourselves hasn’t properly been tested, and that hardship may peel away our veneer to reveal character flaws that had been hidden underneath ease and comfort.
Well we are in America on home assignment and one question which keeps coming up is, “What was it like traveling during Covid?” Well let me tell you: