
Foreign to Familiar(ish)
"Chipa! Chipa! Chipa!" With that refrain blasting over the loudspeakers of a passing food truck at 7:00 a.m. last Sunday morning, we knew without a doubt two things: (1) we were officially in Paraguay, and (2) living in a city was going to take some getting used to. The flight from Des Moines to Asuncion (via Atlanta and Sao Paulo) went absolutely as smoothly as a 17 hour total transit could, and our new teammates and friends greeted us with amazing warmth. The Lord has be