Funny Moments

La Jornada's Blog

Welcome to La Jornada's blog! This is where you can find out more of what happens day to day in the house. Life, funny moments, prayer requests and whatever falls in between! Come back often and we'll do our best to keep you updated!

Ken

May 10, 2022

Road trip!

A few months ago, Isabel and I visited one of Isabel’s favourite areas of Bolivia, a town called Santiago de Chiquitos in eastern Bolivia....

Ken

Mar 29, 2022

My latest "God intervened" moment...

I had a funny moment on the way back from our road trip with the guys. We were travelling in two vehicles and we stopped for lunch in a...

Ken

Sep 6, 2021

Rain never slows us down...

I learned a long time ago (and my wife has reinforced this often), if you want to be a good camba (someone from Santa Cruz), you need to...

Ken

Feb 15, 2021

What Happened to Carnival?

Well, you know it’s serious when they cancel Carnival… I’m not sure this has ever happened before in the history of Bolivia, but Carnival...

Ken

Aug 8, 2020

Birthdays...

With ten guys in the house, plus Isabel, Andres, Daniel and I...we celebrate a lot of birthdays! One week in July we had a birthday on...

Ken

Jul 12, 2020

Noche de San Juan

This week we celebrated the "Night of Saint John".....by roasting hotdogs over a bonfire... Some days you just have to go with the flow...

Ken

Jul 3, 2020

My life as a...missionary?

Much has been written about the missionary life. Often in more eloquently ways than I would likely be able to express. Those amazing...

Ken

May 31, 2020

Origami?

In our ongoing quest to keep everyone occupied, last week at our Saturday lunch with the guys, my wife came up with the idea of making...

Ken

May 29, 2020

The quarantine continues...again...

It's difficult to even know what to say. We've now been on a quarantine lock-down for 76 days. The president made a statement that the...

Ken

May 3, 2020

Life and whatnot...

We’ve now been quarantined for 48 days. Honestly, that sounds like the first sentence in some kind of apocalyptic novel. Yesterday the...

Ken

Apr 15, 2020

Martial Law?

We were warned over the weekend that Santa Cruz would be militarized on Tuesday. A lot of people and businesses weren't obeying the...

Ken

Apr 5, 2020

Quarantined and Bad Haircuts...

As it has with the rest of the world, the past few weeks have brought some dramatic changes to our lives. When it became clear what...

Ken

Mar 10, 2020

Carnival!

Once again, Carnival has come and gone and once again, we all survived. For those of you who aren't clear about what Carnival is all...

Ken

Jan 7, 2020

And a Feliz Navidad to all!

Christmas for us this year, looked a little different than normal. My dad has been having some health problems, so I made a last minute...

Ken

Dec 18, 2019

Deck the halls and...palm trees?

I'm sure I mention this every year, but I like to decorate for Christmas. It comes from my mom. Every year our house back home, looks...

Ken

Oct 29, 2019

A day in the life of Ken...

I woke up at 5:40 am to go to the market before the lines got too bad. We thought we could make it in Isabel’s truck at that time of the...

Ken

Oct 15, 2019

Photo Shoot!

Life gets busy! That statement probably isn't too much of a surprise to anyone I imagine if you've got teenagers, you know that trying...

Ken

Sep 19, 2019

Welcome to Home!

"Welcome To Home!" was the sign that greeted me (more or less...the guys weren't quite finished decorating) when I arrived at the house...