Nguyen On Earth

photo credit: Carolyn V. During the summer of 2018 in Mobile, Alabama, I was reunited with sailors who rescued my family after we escaped Vietnam in 1981. We were known as "boat people" and the U.S.S. John Young came to our rescue after we were attacked by pirates and left stranded. I wrote about the reunion here . One of the sailors I met in Mobile was Jim Rotert. Who knew that a year later, I would have the opportunity to visit Jim and his wife Amy in Southern Indiana. The reason for my visit was to speak at Jim's church, St. Paul Lutheran Church - Borchers at their annual Mission Festival. My friend Kim and I left Dallas on a Thursday and were supposed to fly into Louisville but didn't make the flight (we were flying stand by).  Instead of being anxious, I remembered what my friend Brian B. told me when we were preparing for a mission trip to Germany.  "Be fluid and flexible".  While delayed at the airport, Kim's sister (who worked ...

This will be about my exploration of three cities in Peru (Arequipa, Cusco, Lima) and some sites we visited! Rainbow Mountain I was recently invited to Arequipa, Peru, the hometown of my friends, Pia and Kuky.  I met Pia in 2015 while she was a nursing student at my place of work.  We started to hang out and she told me her sister, Kuky, founded a non-profit organization called  Señorita that helps fund higher education for young women.  Fast forward four years later and I find myself traveling to Peru to help this organization as well as the community. Our dream team were Kuky, Pia, Brittany, Kimber and me.  I met Brittany in 2017 through Pia.  Kimber was a new friend to all of us and we loved getting to know her on the trip.  Kuky first met her at church. Kuky! Pia! Brittany! Kimber! me! We left Friday evening for a short layover in Mexico.  We headed to Lima close to midnight.  After a...