For the first time ever in my life, I am living in a place with no connections to anyone. Even when we lived overseas, we were connected to other families by our common mission organization. But here, we are nothing! When you have no connections to others, whatever you are experiencing means nothing to them. You are just another story among hundreds out there.
I really miss the common thread of fellow believers too. We have not found a church here. We see that there are many churches, but I feel like I rarely run into other believers. That is different from our experience in Wisconsin too. It gave me some comfort to know that there were teachers who were believers interacting each week with my kids. A lot of people that I meet believe in God, but really don't have any relationship with Him past their weekly duty of attending church on Sundays. TaLisa was asked by a girl in her class if she was a Mormon. Even though we often felt like we were swimming against the current of cultural norm in both Wisconsin and even in our school in the Philippines, we have never been asked that. It is interesting that there seems to be so many spiritual opportunities here, and yet I feel so isolated from other believers.
It is funny to face isolation in a city of 400,000 people!
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