Yura's mother speaks Evenki, and we may be able to learn some Evenki with her every day. We shall have to see how this works out. Baykit is a lot larger geographically than I had imagined. It will not be as simple to visit people as I had hoped. So we may have to do the baulk of our Evenki with her, and perhaps just visit with other people a couple other times to share oral stories. We will of course want to collect Evenki word lists for dialectal comparison from these people.
I hope to occupy ourselves with these activities every day here in Baykit. Yura is heading further north while we are here. I have to make a decision whether I will go with him, which may include a small chance of visiting the reindeer herders, or whether it would be more effective to stay in Baykit and build relationships here. We will need God's wisdom and direction.
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