Last night we spent a little time as a family sharing some of our “Yeahs!” and our “Yucks!” of being in Honduras. While at our cross-cultural training course in Colorado, we learned about the paradox of going to the missions field–part of you really wants to go, but part of you really wants to stay. For the children, they taught them that the experience is a “pair of ducks”–a Yeah! duck and a Yuck! duck. This was one of the many reasons why we are so grateful for having spent those three weeks in preparation–we now have a vocabulary for talking to our children about their experience in cross-cultural adjustment. Abigail said that one of her Yeahs! was the many new kinds of fruits she is enjoying. Lillian said she was happy for the ice cream we had for dessert. Another Abigail Yeah! was all of us sleeping in one enormous bed for the initial adjustment (Jay said this was a Yuck! for him!).  Abigail also told us that the heat was Yuck! and I agree. But today was my first day without a heat headache–and I’m told that we will eventually adjust to the oppressive heat. When we were done, we took turns thanking God for both the Yeahs! and the Yucks! Read the rest of this entry »