Going to the village

John met with Pablo and the others on Monday afternoon. They are taking us to their village Thursday morning to talk to a man about recording some stories for us. I think the plan is to try to get started right then. Please pray that he will agree to do this and that he will be good at it.

That last part might sound a little weird, but it often takes several people and a lot of practice before you find someone who is a really good help with the stories.

We're all going with John. I'm sure that won't attract any attention, of course! HA!
I think I am going to spend today "cramming" on the language.

We met a lady at church who is willing to help us. She is from our people group and her husband is from another group. They both speak spanish, but they also speak different languages. She speaks ours and her husband speaks another. Her husband is actually from the village our friend is working in, so he wants to help him. They are believers and understand what we're doing, so they are very willing to help us in any way they can so that their people will hear in their heart language.

She might be a good person for me to have as a friend. She could really help me with the language then. It's kind of hard as a woman because I can't just go hang out with anyone to learn. It definitely needs to be a woman------ and the women are so busy (me too!) so it's hard to find a good time. John can find a lot of guys to sit around and talk to pretty easily. If we get out the the villages more now we'll be able to hear it and practice regularly.

John leaves Sunday for his 7-day trip. After he gets back we can come up with some sort of routine schedule to be in the villages. It would have looked very suspicious if we would have tried to move in somewhere and then kept leaving to travel so much. We thought it would be best to wait until most of that busyness was past.