God used and I think will continue to use the glasses as a door for relationships with these communities and people.<\/p>\n
W<\/strong>e were able to communicate with the people in Nahuatl and Spanish<\/strong>.\u00a0 We learned phrases that made communicating easier.\u00a0 Is it blurry?\u00a0 Is this better?\u00a0 Cover up one eye.\u00a0 Look at the light.\u00a0 Look at me.\u00a0 Follow me.\u00a0 Sit here.\u00a0 Stand here. <\/em>The phrases worked great unless the person was from a different indigenous group.<\/p>\n There was one man who was from a neighboring indigenous group and was practically monolingual.\u00a0 He had a hard time seeing, and it was sad to send him away without glasses.\u00a0 We could have helped him if we could have communicated with him.<\/p>\n On the second day of the eye clinic, my co-worker, Dan hauled some people to and from their community to the eye clinic in his truck.\u00a0 As he was returning to our village, he was talking with one of our neighbors who had accompanied him.\u00a0 Frank was asking about different religions and what we believe.\u00a0 He said he had seen that we are different and he wanted to believe what we do.\u00a0 And, he wants his family to believe also. <\/strong>He and his wife live in our community, but are not Nahuatl.\u00a0 They are each from two of the neighboring indigenous groups so they communicate in Spanish.\u00a0 Dan said he could begin to teach them in January.\u00a0 So, please be praying for Frank and his family.\u00a0 The Holy Spirit is at work.\u00a0 Pray for a hedge of protection around them as they desire to learn the Truth!<\/p>\n Our last week in the village was pretty exciting!\u00a0 We held an eye clinic for the area and God answered our prayers! We were able to see 122 people in 3 days and probably 3\/4 of them got glasses. We saw people from at least 8 of our surrounding communities!\u00a0 Several people were amazed at […]<\/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":[1064],"tags":[2423,2399,1094,158,443],"class_list":{"0":"post-747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-praise","7":"tag-community-development","8":"tag-eye-clinic","9":"tag-language-culture-study","10":"tag-praises","11":"tag-relationships","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Frank's](\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/files\/2010\/12\/October-2010-062-lo-res.jpg\")
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