Good questions
Katie Moore was departing from a visit with her language helper, Andrea.
Winding down their visit, Andrea asked once again, “And you guys? Is it the same for you? Do you do that?”
They were talking about dances, and these are questions that Andrea asks Katie repeatedly as they visit about culture and language.
Katie says that many times the answer is “Yes.” “Yes, we have dances in our culture.” “Yes, sometimes boys and girls start liking each other in school and then get married.” “Yes, babies grow in our bellies, too.”
But Katie writes that sometimes the answer is much more complicated.
A few weeks ago, Andrea was explaining the local gods of the mountains. She said the gods were “clean” and the people were sinners. Andrea maintained that if a person brings corn and fish and peaches to the gods, then the gods will make certain there is rain for the next season.
Then Andrea asked her usual question, “And you guys? Do you do that?”
Katie responded that some people in her land thought like that, but she didn’t. She told Andrea that is why she was studying so hard to learn about her people and her language; so that she could speak to the Nahuatl people in their own language and clearly share what God’s Word teaches about the Creator.
“Please pray,” Katie asks, “that our team will be diligent students while we work at learning how to communicate the God’s Word to the Nahuatl people. Pray that they will begin to have questions and doubts about their beliefs that can only be met by the truth of the Bible.”