It Comes To An End

As the week winds down… it is Saturday already. I am putting up this post tonight because we leave here tomorrow after church. The plan is to bless the United Methodist Church with our presence, top off the diesel tank, eat lunch at Jerry Bob’s, empty the RV tanks, hook up, and be gone.

It has been a great week. I completed Hebrews in the Ozumacin Chinantec language on Thursday – just in time to do 1 and 2 Thessalonians in Zapotec Yatee. It was easier to hear the words but I had to hear fast as the reader was very fast. I assume that is the way they speak. Completing Hebrews was a challenge because my computer didn’t like the upgrade our leader put on it over the weekend. It keep freezing up and I would lose a few verses. I quickly learned to save about every 10 verses.

Just to review, I worked in four languages and synchronized about 19 Bible books. Joyce priced over 1.000 stamps from dozens of countries.

Thursday night was the Volunteer Appreciation Banquet. It was put on by the “regular” people who are not volunteers and they did a really great job. The decorations were first rate, the food was very tasty, the program was good. It was a great evening and we feel appreciated.

People  are beginning to fill the seats at the Appreciation Banquet. Joyce is on the right.

Today was the lunch that Sharon does every year for the volunteers that work in her department. It was the keyboarding department last time we were here but now they call it archiving. Sharon is a year round volunteer who lives just down the street from the Center. It was a salad and sandwich potluck. Jim and Nadine Rupp who translated the Chinantec language we worked on was there to talk about it. There are so many things to consider when translating the Bible into another language that it boggles my mind. I wish I could explain all of it but I’m not sure I even understand it.

Jim Rupp is explaining translation to us

These are the archivers. I think two are missing.The lady in the flowery top right behind the cactus is from Salem. Our leader, Sharon, is on the far right.

You might be interested to know that diesel is $1.69.9 at the Circle K and Valero stations here in Catalina. Gas is $1.39.9. Not bad. In fact groceries haven’t been very high except that our style of living in the RV and with both of us working in the Center we tend to eat more expensive food than we normally do.

My next post will not be until we arrive home and I’m not sure when that will be – sometime around the 28^th or 29^th. So blessings to each of you.