Marriage With a Mission

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode we remember changing churches in search of community. We also experience our 5th pregnancy our plan to move back to Mexico.

Send us Fan Mail Today we are going to continue on with our story and tell you about some of our moves. We’ll also discuss another miscarriage and more mental illness.

Send us Fan Mail Today we’re picking up where we left off with racking up credit card debt and tell you how God helped us out of the mess with the offer of a new and better job. Then we’ll move into the heavy subject of postpartum depression and how scary it got for Lauri.

Send us Fan Mail Today will start on a lighter note by discussing the differences of living in Mexico versus the USA. From there we’ll move on to our second pregnancy ending in miscarriage. Then we’ll discuss culture shock for Joel.

Send us Fan Mail Joel has to sell his drums. We make the move to the USA with our little baby. The dream to be a pharmacist dies. 

Send us Fan Mail Struggle to nurse and postpartum depression. All the paperwork and fees for birth certificates and passports. Process for getting a green card and moving to the USA.

Send us Fan Mail We’re pregnant with our first baby…everyone is excited, but I’m really sick. I get fed up with college kids next door. We host a few ladies from the U.S.A. 

Send us Fan Mail Long awaited baby girl arrives after a scare with the local government. Mom and brother come to meet the baby. Joel graduates from pharmacy school. Amebic dysentery follows

Send us Fan Mail Culture shock really sets in now. Today you’ll hear about Joel‘s experience eating American food Lauri makes for him, Lauri getting a teaching job and figuring out how to drive in a new place. Plus, Lauri is learning she needs to be vigilant and alert in her new surroundings and can not just take walks and get on the bus or take a taxi when she wants.

Send us Fan Mail On today’s podcast, we’re going to continue on with our honeymoon and our life as a newly married couple. We move into our new place and we find out how Lauri handles the idea of hand washing her clothes on a washboard outside. Culture shock just starts to come in to play in this episode.

Send us Fan Mail Today you’ll hear how Lauri and her mom travelled to Mexico to meet Joel’s family and the official engagement party that was a surprise to Lauri and her mom. Lauri and Joel will also share some details of the wedding.

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode you’ll hear how Joel and Lauri processed their new engagement after Lauri returned home. They were asking questions like, “Is this for real?”

Today you’ll learn about Lauri’s visit to Mexico to meet Joel’s family and how both Joel and Lauri experienced the time getting to know one another face to face. They have fun remembering the past and the awe of how it all happened. You’ll hear how Joel asked Lauri to marry him and why she said yes, even though they really hadn’t known each other very long.

In this episode, Joel and Lauri have a lot of fun remembering how they met and got to know one another. They will talk about how Joel asked Lauri to be his girlfriend and how everything lined up for Lauri to travel to Mexico. This episode has a video option.

Today you’ll hear mostly from Joel about his life growing up in Mexico. The goal of this podcast is to help you understand a little bit about where he came from and who he is.

Today’s episode you’ll hear mostly from Lauri about her life growing up in Kentucky. The goal of this podcast is to understand a little bit about where she came from and who she is.