EvieLeigh

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Elevators, escalators, and mini rides...oh my! We have an TCK on our hands living it up. (While Dad heals 😬) #jensenmaylene #thirdculturekid (at Cairns City)

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💕If my sister had not come to be Auntie to be #jensenmaylene and bestie to me...Let's just say she was what we needed and we didn't even ask for her to come. Okay, so I joked via text she should come to Australia knowing full well that was not a possibility. I got a text hours later that she was looking at tickets. You cannot beat that. #andthatwearetwins #sisterylove (at Stratford, Queensland, Australia)

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✈️💙👨🏼‍⚕️I keep thinking about all the people and moving parts that worked together so hard and so seamlessly to get Chris from Pei Village, PNG to Cairns, Australia in less then 12 hours. Our teammates in the village, the Pei people, nurses, doctors, pilots, flight coordinators, government rep's, folks spreading the word to pray...down to the unnamed person (THANK YOU!) who made sandwiches and other goodies for the long flight. So many played a part and everyone was needed. It was a privilege and honor to see 'the team' in action. I consistently find myself thinking, "No role is too small." #thanksisntenough #considermissions #soworthit (at Stratford, Queensland, Australia)

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👌🏾Sometimes you just got to terrorize your younger sister. After she flew a long way to help you out. It's therapeutic and can help you through a transitional time. Thanks for that Lauren. I needed you. #youngersister #oldpasttimesremembered #itstooeasy

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💜Happy twelve years of marriage to my swampster! It's our US anniversary today and here we are in Australia healing post Achilles' tendon reattachment surgery. It's been quite a week and twelve years! #nostopping #allforHim

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💃🏽💜👏🏾My sister and husband all arrived 'home' within an hour of one another. We could not be more blessed to have her and that we are together as a family again! We are so encouraged by so many praying and checking in on us. Mucho love to you all. 👊🏾 #nowtosleep (at Treetops)

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🏥Out of surgery and feeling good! A patient at least another night and then we will see if I get to become Nurse Evie. And lucky us my sister @laurenmonterroso is in the air at this very moment to come help be Auntie Mom for a while. Our Creator God has gone before us and we choose to trust Him and thank Him for everything! (at Cairns Hospital)

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🍔All this for some McDonalds? That is one expensive happy meal right there! We are waiting for Daddy to get out of surgery in the next few hours. So, we wait and stuff our faces. #coffeeforme #jensenmaylene

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Today was a doozy. Chris was in a accident and 12 hours later of boat and air time here we sit in Cairns, Australia. He accidentally (here comes my personal cringing) sliced part of his ankle on a steel drain. I'll spare you the details (and pictures😬)but long story short the Dr. believes he will recover just fine. As of right now he is slatted for a procedure or surgery in the am. (Afternoon/evening for our Stateside fam) Be praying for my guy?! Thank you!

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🌊Just a few days ago our village was covered in water ironically during the "dry season" here in PNG. It lasted a few days and just overnight it subsided. Most likely #jensenmaylene will learn to swim in this if not the river just like our co-workers kids. #flooddays #goodtimesduringthefloodtimes #toocoldforcrocs #thankfully #peitribe

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📙With three post-literacy graduates through our program already, we need books in Pefiyahe to encourage their skills! In the process, this gives them access to a ton of exciting new information. Our team developed 25 new books, checked them for clarity, and are finishing the editing on the last of them. Try to explain to someone things like 'germs' or a 'camel' for the first time ever... These are things with no previous contextual anchors in their culture. Yikes. #peitribe

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🇺🇸💥🎆Happy 4th of July from the Papua New Guinea jungle! Holidays with our sweet babies in the village is just too much!

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✏️To date we have three graduated classes here in Pei Village. Great? Absolutely. And yet we hope for more. We hope the graduated would increase their skills in post literacy class offered Monday through Friday's. Pray with us for direction on our parts, motivation on the Pei's part, and for the day we share (SOON!) the 'big talk'. #peitribe

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💛Our swampster, linguine'y, guy in the background, Jesus lovin' baby Daddy. Happy Fathers Day from "your girls". We love you. #infinitybeepbam #jensenmaylene

[evieleigh]

💛Our swampster, linguine'y, guy in the background, Jesus lovin' baby Daddy. Happy Fathers Day from "your girls". We love you. #infinitybeepbam #jensenmaylene

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So, after what seems like FORever our team is 'done' (you are never done!)!with Discourse Analysis of the Pei peoples language, Pefiyahe. All to improve our speech pattens so when we share 'the talk' we have worked for all these years we will not bore our audience. The head work never stops people. *Discourse Analysis- to analyze written, vocal, or sign language use, or any significant semiotic event #peitribe #discourseanalysis

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A not so Insta-gram here. The last few months involved some deaths of one of our eldest Pei men and some children. To the Pei people death is not natural. Somebody or thing caused it. So, the speculations and questions have been flying. These people are not happy in their own as many may think. They are scared, confused, angry, and searching. Lately you see them huddled over a fire or a public meeting area throwing out ideas. Our team is in the midst of bible translation and lesson writing so we can share HOPE soon! #peitribe #onedayatatime