{"id":488,"date":"2011-04-09T14:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T06:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/2011\/04\/09\/zaldo-and-tintin\/"},"modified":"2011-04-09T18:45:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T10:45:54","slug":"zaldo-and-tintin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/2011\/04\/09\/zaldo-and-tintin\/","title":{"rendered":"Zaldo and Tintin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to introduce you to another couple we are getting to know here.&#160; Zaldo has been mentioned in the past, as he\u2019s my main language helper.&#160; I first met him when Erik and I made our initial survey to this area, I did not know at that time how important Zaldo would be in becoming a part of the local Ga\u2019dang community.&#160; Not only has he been very patient with me as I struggle to learn his language, but he has been a huge blessing in acting as a \u2018go between\u2019 when I\u2019ve needed to negotiate or otherwise communicate with the other people in the village.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/files\/2011\/04\/100_3392.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;margin: 0px 0px 5px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"100_3392\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/files\/2011\/04\/100_3392_thumb.jpg\" width=\"364\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we returned to the tribe from our Christmas break, Zaldo informed me he had a girl friend and was planning to get married.&#160; We were very excited for him, especially as he is 33 years old now and it is uncommon for the guys in Ga\u2019dang culture to wait this long to find a wife.&#160; Needless to say, we wanted to meet the girl but she was extremely shy of us.&#160; It did happen eventually and everything is looking like they will get married shortly after we return to the tribe this time.&#160; Zaldo even made sure to ask us when we planned to return so that we could be sure to be back in time to participate in the wedding.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/files\/2011\/04\/100_3984.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;margin: 0px 0px 5px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"100_3984\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/files\/2011\/04\/100_3984_thumb.jpg\" width=\"364\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been a great cultural learning opportunity already for us as there are events in Ga\u2019dang culture that must occur leading up to the actual wedding day.&#160; One such event which has already happened was a procession of the family and village elders from our village going up to Tintin\u2019s family\u2019s village to announce the engagement.&#160; It was a time for traditional music and dancing, killing a pig, <u><em><strong>all<\/strong><\/em><\/u> the elders giving advice to the couple to be wed, and of course the two families discussing the date of the wedding.&#160; As we found out, this \u2018date\u2019 decision alone can take days!<\/p>\n<p>Pray for Zaldo and Tintin as they will soon begin their lives together.&#160; We look forward to seeing the day when the Lord uses this couple to bring the Gospel not only to our village but also to the one where Tintin\u2019s family lives as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to introduce you to another couple we are getting to know here.&#160; Zaldo has been mentioned in the past, as he\u2019s my main language helper.&#160; I first met him when Erik and I made our initial survey to this area, I did not know at that time how important Zaldo would be in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}