Joe Ragan

The sun was out again today. The days are getting longer (the sun was up until 5 p.m. today!!! yippee!). Today makes four days in a row that the sun has shone. It can be deceiving as it is still cold! It reached zero today…
I stayed indoors today and got lots [...]

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Thanks to Judy in Orange, Texas I received my copy of Voices of the Faithful this week. Thanks Judy!!!
For those unaware, this book is a compilation of stories written by missionaries with the IMB. It is laid out as a one year devotion. Several people that I know have contributed stories. [...]

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It’s Sunday morning and it is currently -9 Fahrenheit. It hasn’t been above zero since Thursday. That’s COLD! Of course, it still doesn’t compare to the weather I encountered last winter in Karaganda. One family wrote me recently that it was -43 there a few weeks ago. Fortunately, we haven’t [...]

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Most of you have probably heard that Moscow is having record cold. Well, it decided to move southwestward and has now enveloped us. Our high today was supposed to reach zero, however, the temperature never got above -8 as far as I could tell.
It was -17 or 18 last night. [...]

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I got back to Kiev on Monday afternoon. After almost a week in Budapest, it was good to be back in my own apartment, in my own bed.

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The doctor more or less confirmed what the last doctor said. There is some type of “malfunction” of my Eustachian tube. He prescribed some new drugs, nasal drops,etc. If the ringing persists, I should come back in a month. Then, they would try an infusion therapy to see if they could [...]

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I got to see the sun shining yesterday. You may think that is not too exciting, but in Kiev, during the winter, you don’t see it that often. Of course, yesterday, I had to be at 30,000 feet, on a plane to see the sun. It was a costly venture, but I [...]

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I arrived in Budapest on Tuesday evening. All went all right. I had an allergy test performed at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The ENT from my last visit wanted me to have the test done, so since I was coming back to Budapest, it was arranged for me to have one done. [...]

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I am returning to Budapest on Tuesday, January 10. The ringing in my ear has increased 3-4 times to what it was and so I am going for some followup appointments.
While the ringing in my ear was previously a nuisance, it really has become so now. I can hear it over [...]

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Mike from Henderson, Texas arrived on Sunday. He brought some stuff for me from Tanya, a Ukrainian living in Anahuac, and from Cathy and Bob from Fort Worth. I am always excited about receiving stuff from the US!
Bob and Cathy sent me a calendar with birthdays listed in it from my [...]

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