A Beautiful Day in the Ministry

I have to start out by saying how sorry I am that you are having such awful weather back home, Yuck! I understand it's suppose to warm up by the weekend, so hang in there! We had a beautiful day in the ministry today. We worked a territory called Isla Bon. We remember it from our past times here as the place of mud and mosquitoes. It wasn't too bad today, a nice breeze and sunshine was drying up some of the mud. But we did encounter many friendly people. I was assigned to work with an older newly reactivated sister who lived in the neighborhood, so of course she knew most of the people. We first were invited in by a Haitian family, very friendly, the parents didn't really read Spanish so we just shared a few scriptures with them and told them about the Creole congregation in Sosua. We next talked with three young girls, the parents were working but they invited us in and went and got their Bibles (10,11 yrs old) The sister had a nice talk with them and is going to return to try to study with them. They expressed a real interest in wanting to learn more. My next door was with two fleshy sisters that live together, they're in their 20's maybe 30. They were able to quote a lot of scriptures. I was talking about living forever and what that meant. When I asked their opinion, they of course mentioned living in heaven with Jesus. So we had a nice discussion about living on earth and I left the Good News bkl with them and highlighted lesson 5. So am looking forward to following up there. Doug ran into a former study of his who actually progressed and got baptized but is having some problems now, so he was able to spend some time encouraging him.  But the best experience was at the end of the morning and to tell this experience, I need to go back to last week. After the ministry last Tuesday, Doug and I stopped at the grocery store. While shopping a man approached us and said to Doug "when people are dressed like you, I think of Jehovah's Witnesses". He is our spiritual brother from California, here on vacation. He is Mexican, doesn't speak much English. He then introduces us to his adult daughter who is not a witness but he says she is interested in studying and would we come and visit her. He and his wife are only here till next week but the Daughter, Laura, is going to live here for about four months. So they give us an address and we say sure, we'll stop by. So on Thursday we spend about 45 mins. looking for this address in Cabarete, we have a building number but of course none of the buildings are numbered and everyone we asked has never heard of this place. Even though we didn't find them, we end up having a nice conversation with a woman from Honduras who runs a shop in town and place some magazines with her. So I look the place up on google and get a better idea of where it is at so on Saturday after we leave the group we go looking again, we have a sister with us whom we're giving a ride home  and with her help we find the place and are able to set up a time to visit and start the study, which we did today. It went really well, the woman, Laura, is in her 40's and even though she was raised in the truth, she left when in her teens but realizes now that the world really has nothing to offer and is ready to do something. She's planning on coming to the meeting with her parents this Thursday evening. Lola, the local sister that lives in the area came with me and will take care of the study when we leave. So it will be a joy for me to have such a nice study while we're here and even though we're studying in Spanish, she's fluent in English as well, so that's nice.  Doug and I each made a Return Visit on Saturday where we started studies in the Good News bkl. So you can see why we enjoy coming here (not just for the warm sunshine).

Cory called us Saturday evening and said they were going to in the area for a rehearsal and so thought they would come for a visit. So they spent Sunday night and Monday with us, which we thoroughly enjoyed. Here's some pictures.

Watch out Jeni, You're a little close to the edge!

Yikes, that's what happens!

Yeah, she got a little wet, so we took her home and dried her off.