We’re in Swaziland! Finally, after two days of travelling during which we were completely upside down and inside out in time, we arrived at our homestead in Nsoko at about 8 PM on Wednesday. Our house in pretty simple. A…

It’s currently 1:27 AM. But that doesn’t really mean anything when you’re halfway over the Norwegian Sea. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as the Norwegian Sea until I discovered the flight map on the computer thing…

We just returned from the Island of Love. Our experience there was… eventful.  For this last week in Mexico we had an outreach project. Basically, AIM kicked us out of the Gateway, gave us some money, and told us to…

We visit Mary and the kids one or two times a week. They live about a five minute’s walk from the Gateway in a little villiage with ten or so other families. Actually, they’re all one family. Her parents, brothers,…

Yesterday was our day off, so we went into Brownsville to go to the zoo and other such fun things. For dinner they dropped us of in this shopping center with all sorts of places to eat. Some of us…

So here at the base there’s this water tower. It’s about 75 feet tall and includes a ladder so that you climb up to the top where it’s flat. Some of the crazier kids on my team have been climbing…

So it’s difficult to write this blog for two reasons. 1) There’s way too much to write. 2) Bryan and Garrett are distracting me with “Toe of Finger”, where you run either a toe or finger across the other person’s…

I love it here! We haven’t gone out in the community yet, so it doesn’t really feel like I’ve left the US yet, but it’s so good to see all my teammates! I missed them a lot. We got here…

This was a hard one to write. I have this natural tendency to avoid expectations in case they lead to disappointment, and this, coupled with all the talks we had at training camp about how destructive expectations can be to…