Pray for Good Language Helpers!

We have had a good full week of Ash language help from Laureano, an Ash believer that has been spending a few weeks here in our community. Laureano actually lives a ways upriver from here. We are thankful his help with the language and sure do wish that he lived here as he is such a good language helper!

We did go out yesterday afternoon to track down the three daughters of a Pedro Ash that Laureano recommended to us as possible language helpers. He actually specifically recommended the oldest daughter. Well, we found them with some other women and few guys all drinking the local fermented, manioc drink at a lady's house. Nobody was super inebriated but we could tell that at least one of the daughters was getting there. We sat and visited some but didn't end up bringing up the subject of language help.

We then went into the little neighborhood where a lot of the Ash have settled that have moved here from Sawawo village, an Ash village on another river. It was mostly women in the houses. Not sure where all the men were. Being that the day before was the big Peruvian Independence Day and all the partying that went with that, everyone was kind of in recovery mode, I think. Today we want to go back to a couple that we have visited a couple of times before that are also from Sawawo and if the husband is there, I would like to talk to him some more to get a better feel for his Spanish or Portuguese skills as well as his interest in being a language helper. When I last saw him he had mentioned going back to Sawawo after Independence Day, so maybe they have left already. Continue to pray for good language helpers for us, that God would direct us to the right individuals here in the area.

-Brad