On Sunday September 20th we had the opportunity to distribute the first ever Bibles ever written in the official language of Xenacoj. As we where walking to the church so we could partner with a Spanish speaker, and get the Bibles we where distributing, I imagined a small church, but no, this church was big, I’m pretty sure it’s one of the biggest buildings here. Before we left there was someone speaking, as we where sitting there Bobby (one of the dogs who lives with us) creeped in and sat under some of our chairs. A gentleman got him and took him out side, but he ran back in and hid under the chairs again, and they just left him there. Before we distributed the Bibles we partnered with a person who could speak both English and Spanish, and Spanish and native speaker. There was 2,000 Bibles printed, and there probably will never be any more printed. It was a great opportunity to be able to give the Bibles to the people in the community. One of the lady’s who we gave a Bible to said, “Thank you for this, we will read it because we go through hard times and we don’t know what to do.” It was encouraging to see a none believer so exited to get a Bible, and in there own language.
After we distributed Bibles, four of us hiked up the mountain that’s behind where we live. At first we where just walking on the road, then we found a little path that went right up the mountain, the path turned out to be really steep and muddy. We came out by a corn field, and there was a plato where we could see all of Xenacoj and the surrounding valleys and mountains, in the other direction we could see the fields of the small village of Iyapon. We climbed up through the cornfield to see if we could get a better view, but it was the same. On our way back down we took a dirt road that ran into the main road, instead of taking the steep, muddy path. While we where walking a cow and a horse where really loud and it scared us.
I loved being able to give out the Bibles ever written in this language, it was such an awesome opportunity to show them that people from around the world really care about them. The best part was seeing how, with big smiles and eager hands people took the Bibles.
~ Suzanna
