First Official Portrait Session

Day 12 - October 23, 2021

Today I started my day by waking up and going to sit by my window to spend time with the Lord before my day started. Today my time with Him looked a little different because the moment I sat down "Akka" came and sat with me. We talked about friendships and living our lives in a way that looks different from the rest of the world. We talked about how hard that is and how your family may not support you when you make different decisions but in the long run the decisions were worth making. Akka's favorite verse is John 2:4, "My time has not yet come." God spent the last few months teaching me how to wait well and how to have a correct mindset while waiting. It is interesting that He taught Akka AND Auntie the same lesson. They both have said to me since I have been here that everything is in God's timing and they are right. Those reminders were a good way to start the day.

My Language Lesson for the Day:

Vata chestunava? = Are you cooking?

Vata enti chestava? = Did you finish cooking?

Vata enti? = What are you cook?

Vata = cooking

Thomadam = washing

I am genuinely struggling to grasp this language. It is so different from all of the other ones that I have practiced or speak: none of the words match, the sentence structure is reversed, there are endings that you add on to words to make it plural but its not the word you would anticipate being plural, the vowels are sometimes in the word and sometimes you write them as an extension of a consonant...IT'S WILD.

Today I rode the “scootie” around town with my host. It is easily one of my favorite things. There is something so thrilling about weaving in and out of traffic going in every direction and having road rules but not really. I could post a video but you wouldn’t get it. It’s one of those “had to be there” things. Also, I can't actually post a video because I am trying not to fall off the scootie, so I need both hands, which means I haven't filmed a video. Maybe one day. Anyway, lunch was pasta at a local restaurant and my favorite drink: a fresh salty lime soda. I posted a picture of it in another post but basically it is soda water, lime juice, mint, and salt or sugar. I use salt but Akka uses sugar so it just depends on your preference. The closest thing I can relate it to is a sprite but without the syrup texture or super sweet flavor. They also put "cubes," their word for "ice," in mine but they don't use it.

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