This week we have 4 of our Palawano translation helpers in town for intensive sessions of working on Luke. The guys will be working with Bill, drafting, revising and reworking passages from many chapters. The men will also help Bill to finalize the last few pending revisions on Ephesians and 1 Peter so those two books can be printed and distributed!

Donna will be working with one of the men (Susing) for a few hours each day, recording his oral retelling of the passages, a technique which helps us to get smooth natural flow in the written translation.

We also have another Palawano man and his companion in town to see the doctor. Donna will be running them to and from doctor’s appointment and, eventually, the hospital. Pidi will most likely need major surgery as the painful, horrible growth on his foot is almost certainly melanoma, and even seems to have spread to lymph nodes in his thighs. A biopsy tomorrow will confirm that.