Buryat New Testament!

I (Leif) had the privilege of going to an historic event a week ago. At the National Museum of the Republic of Buryatia, there was a presentation of the New Testament in the Buryat language! This is such a wonderful thing to have to bring the good new of Jesus to the Buryat people. This is actually not the first translation of the Bible into Buryat, but it is the first translation into modern Buryat, and therefore the only translation that people can actually read and understand. Work on this current translation was started twenty years ago by the Institute of Bible Translation which is based in Moscow and is working on getting the Bible translated into all the languages of Russia and central Asia. From all that I have heard, I feel like this translation was done well. The translators were taught Greek to be able to read the earliest extant versions of the New Testament, they worked with various Biblical scholars and translators and compared it with various translations in other languages to try to produce an accurate and understandable version of the New Testament. Please continue to pray for the translation of the Old Testament. There is another group that has taken on this work. Pray that it will come to print soon, and that it will also be accurate and understandable. It will be great to have the Old Testament too, as it is the foundation on which the New Testament rests, and it contains so many examples of cultural and religious similarities for the Buryat people. But even just having part of the scriptures in Buryat will open up people here to see that Jesus is not just the God of the Russians, but that He is the God of all and that He loves the Buryats personally and fully!