I have two main language helpers. One is Leyo. She is great for conversation and practicing what I’m learning. She loves to talk and corrects me when I say something wrong. Then she makes me say it right. She loves to be recorded and sometimes prompts me with, “I have a story to tell you, do you want to record it?” Then, she goes off for 5-10 minutes telling me something that happened to her or a legend that the “old ones” tell from a long time ago.
She has 11 children that are still alive. 6 are older and several of them are married. 5 are younger and in elementary school. She has 7 grandchildren and 3 of them are now in her care.
Her oldest daughter, Queen, used to help me a lot with language and sometimes would come over just to hang out at my house. But, now, she has remarried and has moved to another town. Leyo is now taking care of her two kids from a previous relationship that was abusive.
Leyo can barely see things close up. So, she can no longer sew clothes or teach her younger girls to sew. She can’t make beaded bracelets to make money or sew embroidered tortilla clothes to sell as others in the village do. She comes once a week to wash my laundry in the creek for money to buy soap and milk and other necessary things from the store. With her poor eyesight up close, she can see amazingly at far distances. She can tell you people are walking on the other side of the village. All I can see is a person, male or female and she will tell me who it is!
Please pray for Leyo and her husband, William, and their many kids and grandkids that God would prepare their hearts to hear His Word.
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