September 2026: The Storm After the Calm
Welcome, folks, to another month in my life--the most chaotic one yet!! No, really, the last month has been SO BUSY. I can barely keep my head straight. And yet, every day I thank God that He placed me in a country where I can speak the language. That was, after all, one of the primary factors behind my choosing this place over a competing offer from Cambodia last year. I feel supported strongly by local friends and expat colleagues alike, and it is truly a blessing that God has surrounded me with such a "great cloud of witnesses" here in Guatemala. And so, here is the story of the month that was--the good, the bad, and the ugly. Well, right after I published my last update, I went on a retreat with my coworkers at CAG to a retreat center on a parent's property overlooking some volcanoes. One of them, Fuego--the country's most active volcano by far, responsible for a catastrophic eruption in 2018--was belching smoke again that day. While we were many miles away and...