{"id":1064,"date":"2012-03-17T03:03:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T08:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2012-06-28T15:18:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T20:18:02","slug":"from-katie-do-you-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/2012\/03\/17\/from-katie-do-you-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"From Katie: Do you do that?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andrea gave Katie a few tamales one day after a visit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I meet at least twice a week with my language helper, a lady named Andrea.\u00a0 She teaches me the Nahuatl language and answers a lot of my questions about how things work in this community.\u00a0 Every time she explains something to me about her culture she asks, \u201cAnd you guys?\u00a0 Is it the same for you?\u00a0 Do you do that?\u201d\u00a0 Many times I answer yes.\u00a0 Yes, we have dances in our culture.\u00a0 Yes, sometimes boys and girls start liking each other in school and then get married.\u00a0 Yes, babies grow in our bellies, too.\u00a0 Sometimes, however, the answer is more complicated.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, Andrea was explaining to me about the local gods of the mountains.\u00a0 She said that they are \u201cclean\u201d while the people around here are sinners.\u00a0 Because of that, the spirits can help you if you make them a promise or bring them gifts.\u00a0 If you bring them corn and fish and peaches after a good harvest, for example, they will make sure you have rain for the next season.\u00a0 She went on to explain things in more depth and then asked me her standard question: \u201cAnd you guys\u2026do you do that?\u201d\u00a0 I told her that some people in my land thought like that, but that I didn\u2019t.\u00a0 I said that soon I was going to sit down and tell her what I thought in her own language, just like she had told me.\u00a0 But first I had to study.\u00a0 A lot.<\/p>\n

Andrea, like many of the Nahuatl, do not communicate well in Spanish.\u00a0 I know that she cannot understand the gospel well in Spanish and so I am trusting God\u2019s timing as I continue to learn.<\/p>\n

Please pray<\/strong> that our team will be diligent students<\/strong> while we work at learning how to communicate the Word to the Nahuatl.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pray<\/strong> that the Nahuatl will begin to have questions and doubts about their beliefs<\/strong> that can only be met by the truth of the Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I meet at least twice a week with my language helper, a lady named Andrea.\u00a0 She teaches me the Nahuatl language and answers a lot of my questions about how things work in this community.\u00a0 Every time she explains something to me about her culture she asks, \u201cAnd you guys?\u00a0 Is it the same for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"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":[423],"tags":[649,426,1094],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-article","tag-church-planting","tag-katie","tag-language-culture-study","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}