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Across the Miles

By Joy, on September 10th, 2010

It’s been a while since I’ve written on my blog and I’m itching to get back to it. The past two months have been so crammed with studying for various speaking obligations, visiting with family, and traveling from place to place, that I just haven’t had the time or energy for much else. Here is an overview of our last two months:

Arrived in Oklahoma July 6. Two and a half weeks were spent doing last minute preparations for Julia’s wedding. A trip to Missouri was fit into that two and half weeks. We flew to California July 27th. We …

Time Stands Still

By Joy, on October 29th, 2008

Our family has been in the States since August 27, traveling from place to place, visiting numerous congregations and reporting about our work in Tanzania. Today we arrived in the community where we lived for six years, previous to our move to Tanzania – rural Iowa. It has been a very strange experience for us. It seems like nothing has changed, except us. We went out to our house, which is still up for sale. Bad time to sell a home in rural Iowa. Anyway, we spent a few hours there, cleaning and checking on things. Even our cats were …