Hi all,
Hope everyone is doing well.
It has been a busy month for us here. After our Cuzco trip we got back into our ministry in La Banda de Shilcayo congregation.
Our studies are going well and have been giving us a huge boost of joy every time we do them. On of our study's is a mum with 2 young girls, ages 7 & 10. The 10 year old had a horrible accident when she was a baby.. which left her with serious burns that reached her lungs.. poor thing and poor mum. She is such a happy girl though, you would never realise that she is just running on half a lung (literally). Sarah studies with her and has been using the new brochure for kids and the children's activities from the website and she loves it. The 7 year old loves it too. Now to give you an idea where this call is... Its on a map that is on the edge of our territory.. which you have to cross a river to get to... and it is on top of a hill (Sarah calls it a mountain) that if it rains becomes a mud slide... our shoes get so heavy from the mud hahaha. On a hot day it is torture... but when we are CLIMBING up the "mountain" the two little girls come running to us and give us a huge hug and that fills our heart with joy.
Anyways, the mum just recently got told by the doctors that at any moment her beautiful girl might pass away because her lung is failing... wow, that was a very emotional study when she told us this. Really sad, but the amazing and most faith strengthen thing was that the mum just kept saying that she has 100% confidence in Jehovah to help her. Her faith is so strong and whenever she gets a moment she reads the BT book and her bible... She says, "When everything gets to much, and i can not think straight, I do a pray to Jehovah and as soon as I finish... I feel better" .... the daughter (10 year old) has so much faith in Jehovah as well and does her pray to Jehovah every night asking Jehovah to help her family, her mum, her sister and even us. Touched our heart so much to hear that :)
So much more to say, we will leave that for next time :)
We had an amazing memorial attendance in our congregation with a total of 305 at the kingdom hall and Chazuta (a group thats part of our cong with 12 publishers) had 91 in attendance and in another group part of our cong 2 hours away had around 30, so all in all we had around 420... Amazing.
We also had the beautiful privilege of being invited to the Graduation of the Couple School in Lima. That was so faith building and really encouraged us both. The talks and experiences that we heard really has given us strength to keep going in our full-time service to Jehovah. We also got some needed shopping done while in Lima :)
Just the other week I did a public talk in a beautiful little group of 20 publishers about 1 hour away. Can you believe that 10 of them are regular pioneers??!! and of those 10 pioneers 2 of them are 12 YEARS OF AGE and another 14 years of age.... One of them is a young boy that is 12 and has already been to his pioneer school. Theres a 11 year old thats a regular auxiliary pioneer as well... i think there are more as well. But what an example... and they all have great goals... We so humbled by there amazing job that they are doing. We have a photo of some of them below.
And thats not uncommon because even in our congregations there are 13 year olds that have been regular pioneers for a couple years. Girls and Boys. Very encouraging.
Well theres a lot more to say but we will leave it there for today.
Sarah and I send our love to all and hope to hear from you.
Here are some photos:
We had the privilege of visiting a giving a talk in the Lamas congregation... That very night a special pioneer couple just arrived there... They have been assigned there to help out in the native language "Quechua"
Here are our faithful married couples from the Couple School in Peru
This was a lovely lunch a sister did for just some of the pioneers in our Congregation... there are 4 special pioneers in this photo... it is truly a well of spiritual experience
Here are those faithful young brother and sisters from that group, so amazing, our future special pioneers hehehe
Memorial, we set up a tv and chairs outside so we could fit as many as we could.
Hope everyone is doing well.
It has been a busy month for us here. After our Cuzco trip we got back into our ministry in La Banda de Shilcayo congregation.
Our studies are going well and have been giving us a huge boost of joy every time we do them. On of our study's is a mum with 2 young girls, ages 7 & 10. The 10 year old had a horrible accident when she was a baby.. which left her with serious burns that reached her lungs.. poor thing and poor mum. She is such a happy girl though, you would never realise that she is just running on half a lung (literally). Sarah studies with her and has been using the new brochure for kids and the children's activities from the website and she loves it. The 7 year old loves it too. Now to give you an idea where this call is... Its on a map that is on the edge of our territory.. which you have to cross a river to get to... and it is on top of a hill (Sarah calls it a mountain) that if it rains becomes a mud slide... our shoes get so heavy from the mud hahaha. On a hot day it is torture... but when we are CLIMBING up the "mountain" the two little girls come running to us and give us a huge hug and that fills our heart with joy.
Anyways, the mum just recently got told by the doctors that at any moment her beautiful girl might pass away because her lung is failing... wow, that was a very emotional study when she told us this. Really sad, but the amazing and most faith strengthen thing was that the mum just kept saying that she has 100% confidence in Jehovah to help her. Her faith is so strong and whenever she gets a moment she reads the BT book and her bible... She says, "When everything gets to much, and i can not think straight, I do a pray to Jehovah and as soon as I finish... I feel better" .... the daughter (10 year old) has so much faith in Jehovah as well and does her pray to Jehovah every night asking Jehovah to help her family, her mum, her sister and even us. Touched our heart so much to hear that :)
So much more to say, we will leave that for next time :)
We had an amazing memorial attendance in our congregation with a total of 305 at the kingdom hall and Chazuta (a group thats part of our cong with 12 publishers) had 91 in attendance and in another group part of our cong 2 hours away had around 30, so all in all we had around 420... Amazing.
We also had the beautiful privilege of being invited to the Graduation of the Couple School in Lima. That was so faith building and really encouraged us both. The talks and experiences that we heard really has given us strength to keep going in our full-time service to Jehovah. We also got some needed shopping done while in Lima :)
Just the other week I did a public talk in a beautiful little group of 20 publishers about 1 hour away. Can you believe that 10 of them are regular pioneers??!! and of those 10 pioneers 2 of them are 12 YEARS OF AGE and another 14 years of age.... One of them is a young boy that is 12 and has already been to his pioneer school. Theres a 11 year old thats a regular auxiliary pioneer as well... i think there are more as well. But what an example... and they all have great goals... We so humbled by there amazing job that they are doing. We have a photo of some of them below.
And thats not uncommon because even in our congregations there are 13 year olds that have been regular pioneers for a couple years. Girls and Boys. Very encouraging.
Well theres a lot more to say but we will leave it there for today.
Sarah and I send our love to all and hope to hear from you.
Here are some photos:
We had the privilege of visiting a giving a talk in the Lamas congregation... That very night a special pioneer couple just arrived there... They have been assigned there to help out in the native language "Quechua"
Here are our faithful married couples from the Couple School in Peru
This was a lovely lunch a sister did for just some of the pioneers in our Congregation... there are 4 special pioneers in this photo... it is truly a well of spiritual experience
Here are those faithful young brother and sisters from that group, so amazing, our future special pioneers hehehe
Memorial, we set up a tv and chairs outside so we could fit as many as we could.
