the Daily Grind

Most days, at the stage we’re in, what we do isn’t super “exciting”.  We’re diligently pressing forward through the mundane so that one day soon we can do what we came for – introducing the Nahuatl to the One True God.

We’re required to fill out time sheets to keep track of our days.  It ends up that we get 8+hours of ministry each day, besides our daily living activities.  Daily/weekly, we are:

–studying

–analyzing recorded and then written stories for “out of the box” suffixes -lte and ta-  and other intricacies of the language.

–making breakfast, lunch, and supper from scratch

–baking bread

–making tortillas

–cooking beans

–hauling water

–taking a gift of a blanket and some clothes to a new mother

–visiting with my neighbor who stops by

–lending a hammer to a neighbor who sent their kid to the fence to borrow the tool

–walking with a friend for a mile with my cell phone to reach the one place in the area that gets cell reception (most of the time) so they can check on a family member who is down working on the coast.

–mudding the inside of the kitchen with a lady from the village

–sitting and sewing my Nahuatl bag while my friend works on making a new Nahuatl skirt

–sitting in a corn crib for hours in the hot sun with other ladies pounding corn with huge sticks to get the kernels off the cobs

–stopping by someone’s house who we rarely see to continue building the beginnings of a relationship

–meeting with my co-workers to discuss and help each other with understanding Nahuatl grammar

–meeting with my co-workers to pray and make team decisions

–meeting with my co-workers to study God’s Word

–watching a movie Friday night.

–listening to a recording of a story over and over again until I have it memorized and the language rolls off my tongue

This is our lives right now.