Watx' me ja'kul? Or how is your stomach in K'anjob'al, Mayan! Today, Nancy started to teach us some K'anjob'al, and her lessons will continue until we meet up with Arvid in Guatemala City (he is currently in Panama helping some Jamaican kids get their visas to join the team and doing orientation with them).
We need to pray for them, though, because the Panamese government is not allowing them to get their visas, and Arvid's flight was majorly delayed today. It seems as if the enemy is attacking on all sides, and I would like to ask God that He would bind the enemy right now.
Today, we wrapped up phonetics and grammar. That's relieving becasue they are my hardest subjects. Translation was interesting, as usual, and so were devotions. We added to our Korean vocabulary during the time with our language helper, and my phonetics teacher asked to interview me tomorrow.
A first and only time Literacy and Scripture Use class was conducted and a lady from Wycliffe came in and showed us how God's Word was reaching people in different formats, including audio and children's stories on film. They send out devices with the Gosple recorded in the mother language of the people, and they also have a Christian radio and a recording station. These methods wrok well with oral-centered communities that grew up audio learners. Churches are encouraged to have separate meetings to listen to and discuss the Bible, using a device called the Proclaimer, which has at least a New Testament recorded in the local language.
For dinner, a fellow student from Peru prepared us an ethnic Peruvian meal, replete with various kinds of rice and sauces, and finsihed off iwth rice pudding and a purple pudding to put over it. To drink, we had a juice made from purple corn and a Peruvian soda. It was delicious!
Well, we gotta get up early tomorrow, so bye!
In Christ,
Brittany
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