{"id":1345,"date":"2012-10-04T19:03:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2012-10-04T19:06:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T00:06:46","slug":"becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/2012\/10\/04\/becoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re on our way to becoming Nahuatl.\u00a0 In some ways, we’ll never become.\u00a0 Our skin is much lighter.\u00a0 We have more resources.\u00a0 We have a broader life perspective.<\/p>\n

However, as much as we can, we want to become like them.\u00a0 We want to be able to speak Nahuatl fluently.\u00a0 We want to be able to understand their culture so that we know what and how they think.\u00a0 That way, when we teach the Bible, we will know what they are thinking when we say, “God” or “spirit” or “rain.”<\/p>\n

In light of that, we are diligently studying the Nahuatl language.\u00a0 We are about one-third to half-way to fluency.<\/p>\n

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Our church-planting consultant visits every few months and tests us on our Nahuatl progress. He gives us homework and helps guide our study so we can achieve fluency faster.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We take part in community activities as much as we can.<\/p>\n

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School graduation is a BIG thing. Everybody dresses in their finest and the kindergarten graduates and elementary graduates are honored with a special meal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We learn from the people about their lives.<\/p>\n

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My friend taught me all about the local edible plants. We picked mushrooms and she taught me how to prepare them! Yummy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We spend time just hanging out at their houses or working alongside them.<\/p>\n

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Hanging out at a friend's house with her 3 kids<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We travel to meet other Nahuatl in the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n

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Crossing the river at the bottom of the canyon to meet the Nahuatl who live there<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As we are investing ourselves in their lives, they are letting us “in” more and more.\u00a0 We recently witnessed their harvest dance to in which they feed their dead ancestors in payment for watering their corn fields during the summer.<\/p>\n

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All-night dance for the ancestors in payment for the rains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Please pray for us as we are becoming Nahuatl.\u00a0 Pray that we would learn the language here well.\u00a0 Please pray for understanding of the Nahuatl culture and worldview.\u00a0 Please pray for us that even before we can communicate God’s Truth, we would be communicating His Love for all people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re on our way to becoming Nahuatl.\u00a0 In some ways, we’ll never become.\u00a0 Our skin is much lighter.\u00a0 We have more resources.\u00a0 We have a broader life perspective. However, as much as we can, we want to become like them.\u00a0 We want to be able to speak Nahuatl fluently.\u00a0 We want to be able to […]<\/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":[143,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-prayer-request","7":"category-ministry","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","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=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}