9. KUMTHAK THUPHA
BRAZIL | June 1
Beatriz de Jesus Santana, 23

Brazil gam a Itaparica kici tuipigei sehnel tuikulh tungah khangnote in kumthak dawn in Pasian tungah thupha ngen luakisa in maanhai te sungah a san kilkel te tawh a haite uh laamto in kituah sak ziahziah uh hi. Khat in, “Pasian aw kum tawntung na thupha hong pia in,” ci-a, adang khat in, “Hong hausak in” ci-in, a thumna pa in, “Ka ngaihnu ding hong musak in” ci hi. Beatriz in ahih leh a lawmte’ thunget teng Aratuba Beach kici, mi painop mahmah na khua, a khua uh Salvador panin ferry tawh nai khat khawng kipai lai-in, tua khua ah mi awnthum bang a ten na, tuipi gei panin na ngai hithiat hi. Party pawi bawl na leh zudawn na in bang hangin a nuntakzia khangto sak thei mawk hiam cih lamdang kisa hi.
“Pasian’ kiang pan na khat pepeuh ka ngen nuam kei hi. Tu kum sunga hizah thupha hong lutna hangin Pasian’ tungah lungdam ka ko nuam zaw hi” Beatriz in ci hi. “University Scholarship ngah lai, engineering company panin internship hoih khat ngah sawnsawn. Na hoih tampitak tukum sungin hong piang hi” Beatriz in ci hi. Kaal kik Monday ciangin nasepna ah Beatriz ngap phamel lo hi. Zumkhak sung tengin tha beisak lua kha hi. A boss, Ana Christina in hehpih tak in a kiangah vatu kawm in a cell phone sung pan minit thum khawng a sawt video khat hongkawm hi. Pastor khat in Jesu thu a genna Beatriz in lunglut takin hong en hi. Tua Pastor pa in a dangte’ gendan in gen lo hi. A zingsang kik ciangin Beartriz in a dang video tomnono te Ana Christina kiang pan a cell phone sunga WhatsApp sungpan ngah leuleu hi. A zing ciangin video dang khat hong tung
leuleu hi. Tua bangin video te a banban in en a, thugen Pastor pa’ omzia le heekzia te pen a lungnop huai hithiat mahmah-na amuh ciangin lamdang sa mahmah hi. Beatriz i’ pianna apa pen azi tawh a kikhen khin, zu a dawndawn mi khat hi-a, a pata un kitawng thei zel uh hi. A kitotna uh a bulpi pen in Beatriz zong party pawite ah pai in zudawn hong kipatna pan hi pha pen hi.
Ni tampi khit ciangin Beatriz in tua pastor pa’ min pen google sungah hong mu hi. Tua Pastor pa pen Ivan Saraiva hi-in, Adventist Hope Channel pan in TV ah Portugi pau tawh “It Is Written” a genpa ahi hi. Beatriz in TV pan in hoihtak in ngai den a, a thuzak te maan maw maan lo ci in ama’ Lai Siangtho tawh taih den hi. Thukham sawm leh Sabbath thu hongzak ciangin lamdang sa mahmah hi. Nipikaal thum sung vilvel TV program pan in Lai Siangtho a sin khit ciangin Beatriz in a beisa hun a, akhialhna te Pasian’ tungah mawhmaina ngen hi. Pasian sungah a lungsim sungkhia in, a thungetna pasian in adawn kipatna ahi hi. Kikhop nading biakinn hong zong ta hi. A lawmte khat in Sunday biakinn khat ah zol ta leh thukham lina sunga Sabbath kici pen tawhkituak sa lo in, bangdia ka lawmte’ pawlpi in Lai Siangtho zui lo ahi tam maw, ci in lamdang sa mahmah hi. Ana Christina in Beatriz Pasian tawh kizom ta ahih lam a theih ciangin, mi 12 khawng a kikhopna Sabbath School ah zawn hi. Tua kikhopna inn ah kikhop pen Beatriz in nuamsa mahmah hi. “Angpomna tawh ong ki nohset in, ong ki welcome mahmah hi. Lungmuanna taktak tualai mun ah ka ngah hi” Beatriz in ci hi. “Bang hangin ong theih ngei nailoh pi uh sanggam bangin hong bawl thei mawk uh ahi tam! ka ciah ding ciangin, ‘na sunpha oh leh’ khawng bang hangin hong ci tangtang uh a hi tam!” ci-in a pawlpi muh thak te’ om zia pen lamdang sa in nuam sa mahmah hi.
Amaute in ka Lai Siangtho theih dan hong theitel nuam uh a, koi bangin sin cih hong thei nuam uh hi. Kei kua taktak cih ong theih ma na ngawn un amau te in kei hong kinbawl mahmah uh hi.
Pawlpi mi sungpan khangno nih Amanda leh Vitor te in Sabbath sim in Beatriz tawh Lai Siangtho sin khawm den uh hi. Atawpna ah Jesu honpa le gumpa in hong sang thei taktak ta ahih manin biakinn huangsung a, tuibualna sungah hong ki tuiphum ta hi. Tua lai-ah Ana Christina nuamlua in kap khia hi. Tu in Beatriz in a pa, a nu leh a u pa te in Jesu a san theih nadingin thu ngen den hi. Tu-in a upa in zong Lai Siangtho hong sinsin nuam ta hi. “Up theih nadingin nalamdang ka zangh kei hi, na lamdang cih pen piangthei ka sa kei hi. Ahi zongin Pasian in kasungah amaan nalamdang hong piangsak hi. Party pawibawlnate le zudawnnate ka sung panin beisiang sak hi. Tua in Jesu a lut theihnadingin a hawmsuah sak ahi hi,” Beatriz in ci hi.
Beatriz in nung kum in kumthak pawi a lawmte Adventist innkuan khat tawh bawl uh a, tua lai-ah azusuah lo lenggah tui dawnkhawm in Pasian’ piak thuphate’ hangin lungdam ako uh hi.
“Pasian tawh kinai semsem dingin ka khangto nuam hi,” “Beihun anei ngeilo ding Pasian itna ka lunggulh hi” Beatriz in ci hi.
Tu kuata sabat 13na mission sumpi pawlkhat tawh ka biakinn ding uh inn-biakinn pan in biakinn tatak khat ka lamnuam uh a, tua sung mah ah, cidamna tentan, anhuanzia tentan te kipiak theihna ding innkhan golpi te zong kilam ding hi. Mission sumpi nongkhiat man un lungdam mahmah hi.
By Andrew McChesney