"Gervacio came to me yesterday and said “I do not forget all you taught me.  I want to thank you.  If you had not taught me, I would not be serving the Lord now.  I am very grateful.  God has taught me much.”  It was Jim, of course, who taught him from the first, but he says he really “woke up” when Jim died."

Letter. Paper, 8-1/2" x 11", typed. January 3, 1962. Letter from Elisabeth Elliot to her parents, written after she had left the Waorani and was again working with Quichua Indians. Among other topics, she discusses how much has changed since her husband’s death six years earlier. From BGC Archives, Collection 278, Box 4, Folder 10.