{"id":353,"date":"2012-06-23T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T19:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/?p=353"},"modified":"2012-06-23T15:55:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T19:55:29","slug":"june-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/2012\/06\/23\/june-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"June Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re Hitting Dung
\n<\/em><\/strong>For the past few weeks Rachel and I have been working, along with several neighborhood ladies, to get our house stuccoed before the rains come.\u00a0 Naturally, we tried to learn a little while we worked.\u00a0 I kept asking my friend Andrea, \u201cWhat are we doing now?\u201d\u00a0 At one point she said, \u201cTiwihteht\u00ed kwita.\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019re hitting dung.\u00a0 The stucco recipe is a delicate mix of water, \u201cgood\u201d dirt, and donkey droppings.\u00a0 After the mudding, we covered the house with a layer of cement so that the rains wouldn\u2019t wash it off.\u00a0 After two long weekends, our house is now finished and the ladies are suggesting paint colors like mint green.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

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With the brave ladies who helped us stucco the house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Guess what we're doing? You guessed it: we're hitting dung.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Test Results
\n<\/em><\/strong>The month of June also brought a visit from our friendly consultant.\u00a0 He gave each of our team members language tests and I\u2019m happy to report that we all know more now that we did before.\u00a0 J\u00a0 We really appreciated our time with our boss and his tips for how to really go after different challenging aspects of the language.\u00a0 Most of all, however, I appreciate our leadership\u2019s focus on being unified as a team, showing God\u2019s love now to the people, and remembering that our identity is in Christ, not in any level of fluency.\u00a0 Please keep praying that our team will work, play, think, communicate, and study in a way that draws the Nahuatl to the Lord.<\/p>\n

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Learning phrases like "pick one" and "it's your turn now"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Messing with the Promise
\n<\/em><\/strong>The Nahuatl are afraid of many things: the dark, being alone, going outside at night, and rainbows.\u00a0 That\u2019s right\u2026rainbows.\u00a0 In their language the word for rainbow is the same as the one they use for snake: kuwah.\u00a0 They tell kids that if they point directly at a rainbow it will somehow \u201cget them\u201d like a snake could.\u00a0 As rainy season approaches and rainbows grace the clouds more frequently, I wonder what they think of us, taking pictures of the colors in the sky.\u00a0 What I see as a promise, they see as a threat.\u00a0 Where I see hope and faithfulness, they see only something to fear.\u00a0 Please continue to pray for the Nahuatl and for our team here as we work to reveal the Love that casts out fear.<\/p>\n

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Something to fear or a symbol of love and faithfulness?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re Hitting Dung For the past few weeks Rachel and I have been working, along with several neighborhood ladies, to get our house stuccoed before the rains come.\u00a0 Naturally, we tried to learn a little while we worked.\u00a0 I kept asking my friend Andrea, \u201cWhat are we doing now?\u201d\u00a0 At one point she said, \u201cTiwihteht\u00ed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[690],"tags":[6388,6389],"class_list":{"0":"post-353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-update","7":"tag-nahuatl-culture","8":"tag-rainbows","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}