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While the rest of my Squad is in Guatemala, My team and Team Clay are currently living in a small city called Palenque in Chaipas, Mexico. We are staying with Eleazar, the director of Shekinah Bible Institute. School doesn’t reconvene until August 1st, so we are staying in the dorms!
For the last few days though, six of us traveled to a village about an hour away to help with a children’s program, and to do some home visits and help attract people to the new church in the village. It was amazing! My teammate Vicki is a French teacher in real life, and she has picked up some Spanish along the way… so, she became our defacto translator.
The problem with only one translator though is that they need a break now and then, or they are involved in another conversation when you need them. But something else happened… something strange. I started to comprehend more of what was being said than not. Pastor Elias would say something to Vicki, and I would understand it. This would be easy to explain if I had ever taken a Spanish class; I haven’t. We’ve been in so many countries at this point, surrounded by so many different languages that I have become accustomed to two things. The first is not having a clue what is being said around me and the second is that knowing that after learning the polite formalities of Hello, Thank You and Goodbye, there was no hope for me learning anything beyond that.
This was new and different. This was full and complete immersion into a new culture and a new language, and understanding even a part of what was going on was incredible!
Here are some pictures from our time in the village. We spent a lot of time outside the Pastor’s home, playing with some local kids…
