I was going to post each Friday, but that's silly, because the best day of the week is the Sabbath, so Saturday evenings (or early Sunday mornings) I will post a new blog. So this blog post will contain two Sabbaths! This was a week of firsts, in many ways. We had our first visitors to our place, we had went on our first visits, and we had our first special music! This past Sabbath was lovely. We met a few more members of our congregation, and got a few more...

I’ve vacillated between being overwhelmed with excitement at all of the new things; and overwhelmed with doubt as I realize how difficult this year might be. We lose power most every day. The outages range from just a few minutes up to five or six hours at a time. Thankfully we keep frozen water bottles in the freezer to keep the things in the refrigerator cool during those times. But it also makes planning things tricky. The power might go out at 5pm on a ...

The first few glimpses of our new home leave me a little breathless. Partly from how beautiful it is, but partly because it's so much smaller, and so much more primitive than I had imagined. I am flying over Malawi for the first time. Everywhere you look it is green. Green mountains, green fields, and green trees, crisscrossed with reddish brown of dirt roads. Everywhere you look there are dirt roads. From above you can see the landscape dotted with the shimmer ...