I am the husband of an amazing woman, and father of 3 beautiful girls.
I am an evangelical Christian missionary in Bolivia, South America.
I am a Tinker.
I am a Carpenter.
I dabble in Metalworking and Mechanics.
I teach language and culture acquisition skills to missionary trainees from Bolivia and surrounding countries.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so maybe these will explain the rest!
I love to take photos of what God created:
My little Addi's first experience with a gecko, days after arriving in Bolivia:
Replacing a leaky fuel line on my 4Runner in Montana:
Cochabamba sunset:
My 30th birthday cake. I asked Kaylee for a blue Land Cruiser, and that's what I got:
Translating (on the fly) Sandra Boynton's "Moo, Baa, La La La" into Spanish, at my birthday party:
Mount Tunari as seen from my office (with a 300mm telephoto) in Cochabamba:
My dad was here for a few months and made bunks for the girls. I helped him finish, and assembled them at the house:
One of the best blessings about life in Bolivia? Good cow meat is relatively cheap (and charcoal is the way to go):
Replacing some suspension parts on the 4Runner (while in Missouri):
Cristo de la Concordia in Cochabamba, the tallest statue of Jesus in the world:
An old mission in our neighborhood:
Shelling peas with Anne and Addi:
Growing peas, to show my daughters the basics of germination: