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| Here's the Sunday group for service in front of our (newly painted) KH. We don't have cars for service here...we have motos! |
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| Sometimes on Fridays I accompany my roommate, Shelina, to the Laguna de Apoyo where she gives a Bible study to 3 of our newly baptized deaf sisters. These girls (from left to right: Maria, Karla, and Celsa) are 3 of 7 deaf children of 13 children in total whew! They are lovely girls and it's always a pleasure to visit them. They really struggle to put Jehovah first often having to choose between bus money to go to meetings and food money for the day. Their parents are not JWs and don't even know sign language so the congregation really cares for these precious gems. |
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| Who else gets their territory directions like this: "Work the highway both sides until you get to the volcano. Then take the bus back." On a side note, this is a really difficult territory for me. It's about a 2.5 mile walk UPhill, next to the PANAMERICAN HIGHWAY, completely SHADELESS, and DUSTY. Jehovah feels my pain :( |
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| The service group in front of one of our territory vistas. Beautiful, isn't it? |
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| Introducing Don Silvio! What an enchanting student! When he was in his 20's he had contact with JWs and heard the ring of truth but through moving and the earthquake of '72 and the war, he lost contact. A few months ago, he retired so was home during the day when we came a-knocking and immediately started his study back up and regularly attends meetings. He always talks about how he's so thankful to Jehovah that he found the Witnesses again. He lives about 2 blocks from my house, and any time you pass by, THIS is what he's doing...reading his Bible Teach book. He's also reads the Reasoning Book "for fun" as he puts it. I had the pleasure of attending one of his studies when I first came to Nindiri and he had a ton of questions about how he could qualify for baptism. Then we started the study and I saw he was just in Chapter 2. Hey, when you know, you know. |
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| Three hardworking pioneers finishing the Memorial invitation work in our neighborhood at about 7:30pm |
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| One of our rural service groups during the Memorial campaign |
Charley suggests you get the bus to the volcano and preach your way back. That way it would be a downhill walk!
ReplyDeleteCharley is invited to take our group out one Saturday to suggest that *wink wink*
DeleteSimply beautiful
ReplyDeleteGreat photos. Just a thought though, your umbrella would work better for shade if it was open. :)
ReplyDeleteI know! But it was really windy up there and I didn't want to block the shot of the view.
DeleteNothing like a long day of service followed up with: 'hey let's go give the invitation to our neighbors!' How can anyone say 'no' to that?!
ReplyDeleteHey, but it worked, right? Now we know them better and they feel more open to asking us questions.
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