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He would read very haltingly, having to start over. What caught our attention was that he could read the Bible better in Spanish than in Ko’revajʉ.

They are unique moments to meet other Ko'revajʉ people, listen to their songs, and hear biblical teachings in their own language.

The chiva had gotten stuck in the mud while they waited for a backhoe to come and pull it out.

It will be strategic for advancing in the acquisition of the Koꞌrevajʉ language and culture, since we will be very close to the indigenous villages.

These game is usually a source of laughter and excitement, however, for them, their reaction was, “Nooo! You can't take someone else’s gift!”

Will it confuse them? Will they believe that God's Word confirms it? Will they believe that what they have been doing is right?

Studying a language is like putting together a puzzle with more than a thousand pieces. You find the pieces all around, but even when you put them together, they're not always in the right order.

As we visit the neighbors, we chat, make jokes, introduce ourselves and get to know them; they communicate words to us in the language and reveal aspects of their culture, which we take into account by recording them and then analyzing the language to learn their way of seeing life and their explanation of how things work.

While working with Fredy, I started playing with words, trying to translate from Spanish into ko'revaju a word he himself used, "father of the family." When I threw my translation into ko'revaju at Fredy (I thought), he laughed a little.

At the end of March we had the first opportunity to spend Holy Week in a Korevaju village.