An Incredible First Day of Translation!

After breakfast we had a time of orientation. We took a walking tour of the property so that Dan and Wakshuma could see what all is here. We first took Wakshuma's things to "Bethany house", the wooden house Joel used last time for translation, and then Bonheur and I showed them where all the food we eat here at Subiaco center is raised and grown.

We then gathered in the seminar room and covered how to use the recording program and shared some of the lessons learned from last time. Bonheur didn't really need the orientation, but was helpful in explaining what worked well for him last time. Wakshuma also comes with a lot of experience as he translates and records as part of his ministry in Ethiopia. So Dan was mostly on the receiving end of pointers, but proved to be a quick learner. After issuing the men their computers, external hard drives, microphones and ear buds, I sent Wakshuma and Bonheur to get started and spent a little more time getting Dan accustomed to using the program.

Midway through the day I made my rounds to check up on the others and found that they were progressing well. Dan was being very deliberate to translate everything out on paper first and then record it. After several hours of this and only getting through several minutes of recording, I began to pray fervently for Dan. I checked up on the others again and then returned to Dan and was thrilled to see that he had doubled the amount of recording completed in only a fraction of the previous time. Something clicked and by God's grace he was off and going. God is good!

We all met for dinner around 7:30pm and around the table I asked each of them how they had done thus far. I was stunned to hear Dan report that he had just finished the first session. Wow, that was incredible. Wakshuma had completed the first session also and was half way through the second. A job well done. And Bonheur amazingly finished two entire sessions in the first day of translation work.

I showered them all with words of praise and encouragement on a job well done. Together we reveled in God's abundant blessings for our efforts to honor Him today.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS! Please continue to pray for each of us. To help you pray for Bonheur, Wakshuma, and Dan, I am putting a picture of each of them below.

Bonheur is from Rwanda and is translating into the language of Kinyarwanda.

Wakshuma is from Ethiopia and is translating into the language of Oromo.

Dan is from Nigeria and is translating into the language of Hausa.