Monthly Archives December 2011

Growing up, we always had a special pile of books that were stored away each year for Christmas and then brought out with the ornaments and other special Christmas-y things.  Among the stash was one of our favorite stories:

In this story, the poor Little Critter tries so hard to make Christmas special for his family, but he just keeps messing it up.  Like, the cover implies, he can’t get the presents wrapped because he gets too sticky from the tape, but he also can’t string the lights because he’s too tangled in them, the ornaments all drop and break when he pulls them out, and he accidentally eats all the cookies before he can give them away.  It basically sounds like what Christmas would be like if Jeremiah was in charge.

But this year I totally feel like Little Critter.

I tried stri...

“Tell us about a time you resolved conflict well.”  ”Tell us about a time you didn’t resolve conflict well.”  ”Tell us about a time you really messed up cross-culturally.”  ”What is the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make….”

We spent the last two days answering questions like these and many more (some even more personal and more difficult to answer) as we were being assessed my MTW’s leadership department to become team leaders of a future Huanta team.

Back in the 60′s, Nathaniel’s grandparents were part of a wonderful team of missionaries in Huanta.  We are always hearing stories of all the work that was able to happen there because there was such a strong team.  Nathaniel’s mom has so many fond memories of growing up with the other M.K...