Johnson is definitely, hands down, my best student interpreter. Johnson had been translating for the missionaries for at least 2 years. He was one of Francois Filogene's best pupils. Applesauce, aka Andronic, is Johnson's best friend. But Andronic's English is not developed enough for the missionaries to choose him as a translator.

“Mix Yolantha, your Applesauce is very disappointed.” Johnson began to plead his friends case. “He has no father Mix Youlahnda, many brothers and sister, no source of income.” This was the typical scenario.

“Andronic, my friend, your Applesauce, is needing money to help pay for his brothers to go to school. Applesauce does anything he can for his family.” Johnson said, “Applesauce works hard to get a little food for his family and then doesn't have food for himself so I give him some of mine.”

I remember the first year I came. Johnson was an excruciatingly, skinny skeleton of a young lad. Just like all of my other students. But Johnson stood out from all of the other starving children because he always turned down snack. “No thank you miss,“ he would say avoiding making eye contact. After three days of this I begged.

“Please eat.”

“I cannot eat, when my family , my brother, at home will not have food. It is not right for me to be able to eat if my brother cannot eat.” He spoke like a true revolutionist. That was over 7 years ago. Johnson was just 11 years old then. Now he is 19.

“Go get your brother so he too can eat.” I told my little eleven year old warrior.

The next day Johnson proudly introduced me to John Smith. His twin.

Now again, 11 years later I noticed Johnson did not partake of snack. My spirit said that Johnson, once again in Gandhi fashion was pleading the case for his friend just as Jesus pleads the case for me. However no matter what Johnson did, Applesauce's English was not good enough to convince the missionaries to use him as a translator. However; that year we had so many children in Vacation Bible School that I was able to get him hired as one of my helpers. He became one of my "disciplinarians". Now Johnson and his friends Applesauce aka Andronic were able to join me for snack each day, and my Applesauce was able to really work on his English.


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