These last few months I have been doing a bible study through the book of Ruth (Ruth… Loss, Love, and Legacy by Kelly Minter) . I am falling in love with her story. I thought I knew the story about Ruth, but I have learned so much by digging deeper in this love story. Today… Read More
Hey there! It’s been a while since I (Austin) have written a blog, but I’m here today to share with you something really exciting, and how God has been working. So sit back and enjoy. Let me start off with Acts 8:9-25 9 But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the… Read More
As some of you may know Emma no longer sleeps through the night. Since we have temporarily moved back to the states, Emma’s sleep pattern has been out of sorts. We have linked her lack of sleep to multiple things such as: 1. She is in a new environment and needs to adjust. 2. She… Read More
Being a missionary on the mission field it is easy to become so involved in the work of God. There are times when we become fully immersed in the tasks that we forget about ourselves. When we serve and care for others we sometimes tend to put our own needs on the back burner. Don’t… Read More
While Ben, Julie, and the girls are state side, Austin and Taylor are enjoying the peace and quite. Even though half the family is gone we still have been busy… God has been blessing us with many little things, and we are so very thankful. On Monday Austin took Ben, Julie, and the girls to… Read More
This weekend was a much needed retreat. We went to Siguatepeque for a missionary gathering of the Honduran Fellowship for Missionaries and Ministries. For those who don’t know, Honduran Fellowship is a ministry that links missionaries all over Honduras together. This is a wonderful resource to have. They are here to provide as much help… Read More
Our family has started going through the books Women of the Bible and Men of the Bible in our weekly bible study (me and Julie alternate with the women and Austin and Ben alternate with the men). This week we studied about Eve; about her character, her joy, and her sorrow. She was the first women… Read More
These last few weeks have been chaotic weeks… productive weeks, but very very energy draining and crazy. This last weekend we went to Gracias on Saturday 11/19 and did some work on the house, Sunday we window shopped in Gracias, just getting price ranges for items we would need for the house. Monday we drove… Read More
My Spanish teacher, Dunia, has started this new thing with me were each day she gives me a bible verse to memorize in Spanish. I’m thinking “My head is already full from just trying to process the information and make sense of it all, and now you expect me to memorize verses. Just another thing… Read More
We are here!!! In Copan Honduras! We have had many mixed emotions since we landed; overwhelmed, excited, tired, sad, happy… pretty much almost any emotion you can think of we have had. While we were waiting in line to go through customs it hit us that this is our new home. That our lives would… Read More