A few posts back I told my dear readers to ask me anything. Seeing as we are coming up to our 10th year on the mission field as well as fifteen years of marriage I opened the floor to find out what you are curious about. The following 12 minute video answers the 14 questions that came in. If you want to skip ahead to a question follow this general guide:

1. [0:10] How do I start working on the mission field?
2. How did you start working on the mission field?
3. [1:50] How do I pack up my family and move somewhere and not have any income?
4. How do you support yourselves?
5. [4:20] When you started 10 years ago did you have an idea where you wanted to be at this point?
6. Did you accomplish that?
7. [4:50] How would you describe your role in Christ Nation Ministries?
8. [5:10] If the ‘now’ you could talk to the ‘then’ you what would you say?
9. [5:45] How do you fight against burnout?
10. [7:00] How does one make it to 10 years on the mission field?
11. [9:25] The thing you love most about living in Bolivia.
12. [9:45] If you could be anywhere else in the world doing anything else where would you be and what would you be doing?
13. [10:55] Do you feel you may ever do missionary work in another place in another time in your lives?
14. [11:30] Favourite way to have your coffee.

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Coming out of the post office I encountered a peaceful protest by hundreds of government health workers and teachers demanding fair benefits and punctual pay. What struck me as interesting is that they all had water to drink and parasols to block from the sun. Other sectors of society are not usually that careful when they head to the streets.

A personalized look at the city I live in and my top 12 points of interest. Following the video you will see the complete list with a few links to past blog posts I did about that spot. A special thanks to my husband DaRonn for helping my with the technical side of putting this together, some filming and for his cameo appearance.

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1. El Cristo

2. The Botanical Gardens

3. The Market

4. Cine Center

5. The Tunnel

6. The Recoleta (where the best meat in all of Bolivia can be found at a restaurant called Churrasqueria Tunari)

7. I.C. Norte Supermarket

8. El Prado (My Flickr file of images from this area of town)

9. Divas

10. Mount Tunari (2009 summit, 2010 summit, 2011 almost summit)

11. Bowling

12. Juice Zen

The following vlog was made after a long afternoon downtown getting the final document. I don’t even care that the lighting is low, that the girls’ room and myself are a mess-o-rama, or even that the boys are playing Wii and the camera picked up the game’s music. We have the document in hand that declares to the whole world that the adoption is final.

This document, along with a special permission slip, I will take to three different government offices to have it legalized and the signatures recognized. In the middle of that legalization I will have the signatures I need to get her birth certificate. With this legalized document and the birth certificate I will be able to get her Bolivian i.d. card, her U.S. born abroad birth certificate and her U.S. passport. This is all paper work that goes relatively fast and should be done before the end of the year.

We had the honor of having my dad here at our home for his 60th birthday. In the following video you can see some of the the tidbits of our celebrations on his special day. Highlights include: a choreography to the song Oh Blah Di, an appearance from the Chin Heads and the traditional singing of Happy Birthday.

We love you Dad, Opa, Abuelo, Ronn!!!

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I imagine that the family and close friends will be the only ones that will want to invest the two minutes to watch some everyday antics at the Washington house. That is cool with me. The camera was just there on my desk as I worked so I pushed play without them knowing. Here they are in all their hilarity.

Yep, she’s fitting right in. My kids are wondrous!

See related vlog post:

Vlog Two Minutes with my Two Year Old Tyler

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Vlog: “Carnaval”
Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia
Date: 4 of Feb. ’10

A little video about this season in Bolivia called: Carnaval. I have a tiny cold so I sound a little nasally and look a little pastey. Also, I can’t believe that I wore the same t-shirt that I did in a previous video. Sheesh. Ah wells. That’s real life for you.

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For more about our climb of Mount Tunari read my previous post: Desire Fulfilled (click to go there).

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A few posts ago I launched a drawing. It was my 500th post. The prizes were 5 bags. The contest ran until we reached 5,000 comments here at the @. Each comment counted as an entry from the time of the launch of the contest until now. We have reached 5,000 comments, folks!

Here is a little video of the drawing (and some silliness tagged on at the end).

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For those of you that are going to watch the video when you can get to a machine that you can watch it on here are the most esteemed winners!

1. Steven Pratt
2. Libby Jordan
3. Libby Jordan
4. Carin Guthrie
5. Danielle Hodgson

Winners, you just need to get me your shipping address. You can use my honk page to send me a personal message right to my inbox.

Congratulations guys!

Thanks to all my readers for riding shot gun here at the @, you are all awesome!

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Vlog: “Kids July 2009″

Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia

Date: 29 of July ’09

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