Living in a foreign country necessitates making adjustments to fit into the culture. As I said in last week’s post, some adjustments are harder than others. Today’s post is about an adjustment that has become a part of our lives in the past month. This is not a hard adjustment, in fact it has been […]

This Sunday is a a special day in Argentina. I have lived here for almost 1 1/2 years. I am constantly learning new things that I have never heard of. This Sunday is a great example. We will be having elections this Sunday. Voting is obligatory here, and because of that places where people come […]

In the past I have heard missionaries talk about cultural adjustments and sometimes it has a negative connotation. I want to make clear that not all cultural adjustments are hard. I present to our readers the “merienda”. While in the United States we are accustomed to 3 meals a day, in Argentina we have 4! Breakfast, […]

I remember Taco Bell’s old commercials that had the motto, “make a run for the border”. These words have a different meaning now. This morning we took what will hopefully be our last “border run”. A “border run” is when missionaries have to renew their visas by crossing the border to get stamped out and […]