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Top 5 Lifetime Regrets
This is something that I have seen in the lives of others and my own life too. It seemed worth sharing. If You Were Going to Die Today, What Would You Regret Most (and How Would You Change for the Better)? by Adam Dachis, lifehacker.com February 7th 2012 2:00 PM If you’ve lived you’ve made [...]
Ongoing Repairs
Fixed the Renault 12 again today. As I was working on the starter motor I saw the engine mount had let go completely. So after buying all of the missing bolts, nuts, and washers, today was spent putting it all back together again. Never has the engine sat so perfectly now! While the engine protection [...]
Lighting Fires
Lighting the fire of passion. Let our love never diminish, our passion never be lost, our boldness never be quenched, and our togetherness never be torn. Here’s to 2012 and another fun year of being crazily in love with my beautiful wife!
Where is Ushuaia?
Ushuaia is known as being the “End of the World” and the southernmost city in the world. So where is it? This video gives you a look at not only where Ushuaia is in the world, but also what it is like during summer days.
Cata Turns Two
Today my niece turns two. She may not yet appreciate all of the effort and trimmings of a birthday party just for her, but she does recognise the love and attention that she is getting today. And that’s the whole point of the matter.
A Policeman in the Family
Today my sister-in-law graduated from the police school for the province of Tierra del Fuego. We all went in a full car to the city of Rio Grande to attend her graduation ceremony.
Moving South
My journey here was long and slow. The bus was delayed 8 hours so instead of boarding at 7pm as expected, I boarded at 3am and we left at 3.40am in the morning. Terrible. I got no sleep until 5am in the morning as we were constantly told the bus would only be another couple [...]
Who is Silvina Prado?
Well, that is easy to say… she is my girlfriend, the one I love. She is the one to whom I am engaged, whom I plan on marrying. She is a beautiful young lady of whom I had heard a lot but never met. When I finally did get to meet her, I had never [...]
Los Cambios de 2010
El primer cambio es mudarme El segundo cambio requiere residencia permanente en la Argentina Y el ̼ltimo cambio es acerca de familia Ushuaia base de JUCUM Рel lugar a donde pronto me voy a mudar.
…HabÃa estado planeando ayudar en la base de JUCUM Ushuaia con su página web y EDE de octubre 2009, pero cuando los planes de ellos cambiaron, asà también los mÃos. … Asà que, después de enamorarme con esta mujercita por quien era ella por el teléfono, ya era tiempo a visitarla para ver si las cosas entre nosotros iban a cambiar o no.
The Changes of 2010
What I am about to tell you is something that I probably should have told you a while back. Not that it really affects your life in any way greatly, if at all. It does affect my life however, and for me the changes that it is about to bring will most certainly be permanent. [...]
Church and Buildings
Today, I wrestled with a powerpoint in the house for the morning. The electrical tubing in the concrete wall ended inside the wall and it took a while to work this out. Jorge and Isa Rios and Miguel and Olga Montt both arrived with their families in their cars. They had come from Puerto Madryn [...]
Taking the Right Step
Today was a stair day. The team went down to the local steps that climb from one neighbourhood to the next, with over 300 steps in all, to clean them up. I ended up welding a broken step in the base that had cracked, using a borrowed welder and a lot of luck. It has [...]
Clowning Around
Down in the centre of town, some of our team dressed up as clowns to help with some of their varied presentations of the gospel to the people in the Civic Centre. There were skits, music, and some funny acts all put together for the people who were present. I was busy working in the [...]
Fixing the Base
One of the things that all YWAM bases end up needing is maintenance. So today was a day dedicated to doing some of the very necessary maintenance tasks around the place. The rock pathway that had been laid two years ago was now covered over by grass and needed re-laying. The guys headed outside to [...]
Sending Them Off
The team head off today to go evangelising in the city. They will be visiting people in the hospital also, as many there receive no visitors and so they go to spend time talking with and listening to the people who are in the beds. After this they spend a time walking around the city [...]
Free Day
Today was our free day. We get up early to head over to the YWAM base where we will be staying for the next week and discover that one of our co-workers from Puerto Madryn has arrived in Bariloche. He was still asleep but we went and woke him up in a very friendly fashion. [...]
Outreach – Bariloche Day 6
Today is our last day in the church that has hosted us for the last week. After a later start to the day, I head out with the pastor to the girl’s house. Just near here are hundreds of apartments in high-rise complexes. With a lot of robbery and violence in these complexes, we walked [...]
Outreach – Bariloche Day 5
After the new year break, we are now back in the church again, working as much as we can. Today most of the team helped out in the kitchen to make and sell empanadas, a specialty similar to a meat pie but much smaller, very common in Argentina. Miguel and I helped the pastor move [...]
New Year’s Day 2010
With a free day, we all get off to a lazy start. This is also partly due to the very late night we had last night while welcoming in the new year. By the time we eat lunch, it is past 2pm, and we have a new commitment awaiting us. We had all agreed to [...]
New Years Eve
New Year’s Eve is a time to celebrate with friends and family. We left our church location this morning to come and spend the time here in the YWAM base in Bariloche, with friends. This had a secondary benefit of allowing the pastor and his family to get together without worrying about us being present [...]
Outreach – Bariloche Day 4
Today we climb a mountain. The idea was to reach the top, but after a late night last night, and with a very late start to the day, our chances were diminishing rapidly. Add to this a very large group of people, and you start moving quite slowly, according to the abilities of the weaker [...]