Tag: culture

A miracle of the Holy Spirit

A miracle of the Holy Spirit

During our team’s culture and language learning days, we often shared patterns we were seeing in the worldview of the people. In one such conversation, we began to chat about the custom among the Nahuatl of holding grudges. The slightest offense can lead to hard feelings that in turn compels one person to refuse to […]
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A New Teaching

A New Teaching

Sitting in literacy class with four or five grandmas is an interesting way to learn about village life.  For some reason the hard work that they’ve done with their syllables loosens their tongues, and by the time class is done they are usually extremely chatty.  They color in their workbooks and chatter away.  It is […]
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Make Hummus While the Sun Shines

Make Hummus While the Sun Shines

I am privileged to have a guest writer on my blog: my Dad, Tom Moore.  I asked him to write this month’s post in a joking tone of voice, but with a serious note.  You know, the way he always asks me for favors.  It was delivered to me on two pieces of notebook paper, […]
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Come. Come, all of you.

Come. Come, all of you.

A few days before our team left Las Moras, Andrea told me about something she had dreamed. Dreams are very important to the Nahuatl people, and they often find meaning, signs, or omens in what they see while they sleep. Andrea said that she and a handful of others were standing on an outcropping of […]
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A Missing Idol

A Missing Idol

by Rachel Chapman   As we were getting ready to leave Las Moras this last time, I took time to talk with my Nahuatl friends directly about the Scripture portions that we had been translating.  One of the last times with Queen, I asked her what she was believing.  She said, “I believe what we’ve […]
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Counting the Cost

Counting the Cost

by Pete Hypki Andrew is one of the good guys. At least, out here, he is. Andrew is our neighbor to the south, and a father of 11 kids. He’s short, like most of the men out here, maybe 5’5,” and stout, with a thin graying moustache.   Two weeks after we moved into the […]
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Top Five

Top Five

I’ve been in Mexico five years this month. In celebration here is a list of some of my “top five” things from my time in the tribe. 5 Nahuatl words that English borrows: chocolate coyote avocado chili tomato 5 Things that surprised the Nahuatl about white people: Our babies grow inside our stomachs We get sick […]
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