The benefits of knowing 2 languages
- Oct
- 11
Learning more than one language definitely has it’s ups and downs. For instance when you learn a new language you spend many days with your brain feeling like mush to the point that you don’t even want to talk in your first language because it requires too much mental energy OR you start to forget […]
read moreBehind the Music
- May
- 22
If you are recognizant of the 80s as much as we are, then you might be expecting an interview of some famous band in this post. What we really want to do is share a little about the video we posted on Facebook last week for “Throwback Thursday.” “throwback Thursday” is a trend on social […]
read moreThe Time Has Come
- Aug
- 06
As some of you may remember I posted a blog back in August of last year about us leaving missions school early and not going to Guatemala. We had just found out at that time that the outreach trip part of our missions training was going to be postponed until we were in Guatemala and […]
read moreLinguistic Mishaps
- Jul
- 11
As we complete our final week of language school, we wanted to share with you all some “mistakes” we made over the past 6 months in Spanish. When learning a new language, we have found that the slightest mistakes (a vowel, a stress syllable, or even the incorrect usage of a pronoun) can change the […]
read moreWhat Do You Share When You Have Nothing To Share?
- May
- 04
This is the question that has been rolling through my mind all week. Missy and I were talking about this the other day. We noticed that lately people have been asking us, “what’s new?” and we’ve literally had nothing much new to report. We are still learning Spanish. We are still in Antigua living in […]
read moreGive me a break!!!
- Mar
- 25
I don’t know about you but every time I hear this phrase I can’t help but think of the song from the Kit Kat candy bar commercials “give me a break, give me a break, break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar.” Well if it wasn’t in your head before it is […]
read moreWeek Six
- Mar
- 02
Some of you already know, but this was Week 6. It is an important week in language learning and cultural adaptation. It is about this time that things get difficult, learning slows, and the mind begins to reject your new surroundings. It is also known as “hell week” if you are going through Navy SEALs […]
read moreSubconscious Rebellion
- Feb
- 05
I noticed this week that my attitude was poor. I think I realized I was off when I noticed how strangely excited I was for the Super Bowl on Sunday. Since last Monday all I could think about was not just going to the restaurant we found that displays American sports to see the “big […]
read moreLanguage School!
- Feb
- 02
Praise the Lord we made it through our two weeks of language school!!! I must say I was REALLY excited to start language school and get further in my Spanish learning but after our these first 2 weeks I’m not AS excited anymore…lol By Wednesday of our first week I was waking up with the […]
read moreA day for the embajada y banco (embassy and bank)!!
- Jan
- 26
We’d like to thank you all for your prayers about us getting our passports validated and our Guatemalan bank account set up. We were FINALLY able to accomplish both of these things on Thursday. Praise the Lord!! As I wrote in my previous post we needed to have our passports validated before we could set […]
read moreConnect 2 Serve!
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