Today began for the second time with John taking me down the hill to the village of Grano de Oro because he needed to do some shopping at the general store and the hardware store. He also showed me a couple of important landmarks.
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| Groceries. No self-service here. |
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| Hardware store |
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| Doctor Rebekah's Dental Clinic |
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| The church Timothy and David's father built in the 1980s |
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| Breakfast: black beans, rice, and scrambled eggs |
Once Ruth was ready to go, we got started working through some fun grammar problems. Here was the first:
Southern Barasano
1. kahea ’eye’
2. kahe ’eyes’
3. bitia ’bead’
4. biti ’beads’
6. kĩ ’cassava tubers’
How do the good folks at the Southern end of the Barasano Narrows Bridge (I couldn’t resist) make their nouns plural? Or do they?
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| Ruth and I share Timothy's office with Timothy and Isaïas |
Lunch was remarkable for the arrival of news that toxic masculinity has come to rural Costa Rica. Apparently the family milk cow went into heat and the family bull found out. When he went about doin’ what comes naturally, her back broke. She is now the family meat cow.
After lunch, Ruth went “downtown” to help Rebekah with dentistry, but David had arrived, and we worked together on his software issues. After that had run its course, it was time for Bible reading time with the Jones family and the Cabécar families that stay on the property, often to get medical help or to study the Bible.
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| Wednesday evening Bible study was put off a day so Timothy could come get us in Turrialba yesterday. |
Yes, that is a woman reading Scripture in a minority language on her phone. No, we couldn't have imagined that ever happening when we got started in translation in Papua New Guinea in 1982.
And after
a marathon gab session on the future of the church on earth, it’s time for bed.
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