Chapter 11It was eleven days until the Festival of Sinquinta. I had spent the last fourteen days going to the shimmaro with Second Esperah Carranza. I wanted to go to with him to see if I could talk to Antonio again. I accompanied him on his pickups at the marperia, hoping to see that child. I never saw him again. But his comments about the Eternal Comforter stayed with me. He spoke so earnestly about it. Did believing in Kammbi give children such conviction?
For the last four days, I had also reread Book 4 of the Baramesa. Book 4 records Teresa’s account of Oscar Ortega’s ministry when he arrived in the area now known as the city of Santa Teresa. Teresa was the matriarch of the tribe that ruled the area, and she wrote about Oscar’s beliefs in the Eternal Comforter. He convinced her that
