Hello our dear friends,
We have now arrived back in Peru after a trip back home to Australia and visiting our dear friends in the Cypress 'Cong' in LA. We had a beautiful time, we enjoyed an amazing International Convention in Melbourne. We broke the records of the Etihad Stadium with over 70,000 in attendance, with 7,000 delegates and many missionaries from all over the world. The experiences where amazing, very encouraging to both Sarah and I, one missionary mentioned that after 25 years of special full-time service the some of the hardest things to cope with is the hot weather and culture shock but said the the blessing far out way the blessings, that was very encouraging for us because we are not even missionaries and are very new to this new/best way of life but showed us that we are the only ones and there endurance pushes us to keep giving our best.
Well there where many more encouraging moments, our dear Cranbourne Cong with beautiful brothers and sisters that encouraged us and built us up with there beautiful comments and inviting us to have dinner with them. Sarah and I would like to say thank you to you all for your beautiful love toward us, it has given us a HUGE boost. Some of these ones are the 'Cranbourne Oldies' hehehe, the Santa Cruz's, Sis Tony, Sis Joan, Sis Josie and Sis June, they are just some that give there very best to Jehovah though they suffer from many illnesses such as cancer, chronic pain, and much much more, but they always find time to preach the word, if there not able to leave there house they peach to ones that come there, one of these dear sisters actually has return visits that come to her house to talk to her about the bible. These ones encourage us dearly through the life experience and there genuine love and care they have for us. We pray and think of them often and there strength gives us strength to continue doing the best we can from Jehovah.
We enjoyed our time with our family back in Australia very much, they showed so much support for what we are doing, they have been and continue to be very self-sacrificing in there support and encouragement to us. It is very hard for them to have us so far away, they miss not having us around, miss our touch, miss our time together, but Jehovah has seen there sacrifice and whole hearted support to us and he has blessed them in many ways that makes us so very happy. Lots of love to you all :)
Sarah and I would like to say thank you the Cotton family and the Indes family from Cypress Cong in LA. They took us in as though we are family and we where so touched by there love and care toward us. We could never thank them enough. The Cypress Cong took us in and we always feel at home when we visit. The international brotherhood in amazing, it was lovely to talk to ones that have very real hardships but they continue to put Jehovah first and keep moving forward. We always enjoy reading the year books for the amazing experiences of our dear brothers and sisters around the world, but this little trip we did taught me something, that if we just look around the kingdom hall we find year book type of experiences everywhere, we saw this in Australia and in LA. I think thats why this trip was such a huge boost. I would love to give you all details but for one, I would be writing forever, and two, we do not want to embarrass anyone. We love you all and we say thank you for sticking strong to Jehovah not matter what your circumstances.
Well through our trip we shared some photos of our life in Peru and we thought we would post these so that anyone that missed them and wanted to see them could have a chance, we will put a little description on each one.
Love to you all,
Joshua & Sarah
So this is our territory:
Our home:
This is a congregation that is about 2 hours drive from us and have been building there Kingdom Hall with the money they have, they have been building it for over 5 years now and they are mostly farmers in a poor community, so after each harvest they donate as much as they can to the construction of there Kingdom Hall. There generosity is so very encouraging.
Taking the witno stands around:
The hilly terrain of our territory:
These are some amazing kids, they are all 12 years of age or under except one girl who is 14, all are baptised besides the little boy, 1 of the girls is a auxiliary pioneer, 3 of them are regular pioneers and the older boy in the picture has a young brother that is 8 years of age and also a regular pioneer with is own 5 bible studies. These two boys have just finished the language school for a native language in the area with there parents. Very inspirational
We have now arrived back in Peru after a trip back home to Australia and visiting our dear friends in the Cypress 'Cong' in LA. We had a beautiful time, we enjoyed an amazing International Convention in Melbourne. We broke the records of the Etihad Stadium with over 70,000 in attendance, with 7,000 delegates and many missionaries from all over the world. The experiences where amazing, very encouraging to both Sarah and I, one missionary mentioned that after 25 years of special full-time service the some of the hardest things to cope with is the hot weather and culture shock but said the the blessing far out way the blessings, that was very encouraging for us because we are not even missionaries and are very new to this new/best way of life but showed us that we are the only ones and there endurance pushes us to keep giving our best.Well there where many more encouraging moments, our dear Cranbourne Cong with beautiful brothers and sisters that encouraged us and built us up with there beautiful comments and inviting us to have dinner with them. Sarah and I would like to say thank you to you all for your beautiful love toward us, it has given us a HUGE boost. Some of these ones are the 'Cranbourne Oldies' hehehe, the Santa Cruz's, Sis Tony, Sis Joan, Sis Josie and Sis June, they are just some that give there very best to Jehovah though they suffer from many illnesses such as cancer, chronic pain, and much much more, but they always find time to preach the word, if there not able to leave there house they peach to ones that come there, one of these dear sisters actually has return visits that come to her house to talk to her about the bible. These ones encourage us dearly through the life experience and there genuine love and care they have for us. We pray and think of them often and there strength gives us strength to continue doing the best we can from Jehovah.
We enjoyed our time with our family back in Australia very much, they showed so much support for what we are doing, they have been and continue to be very self-sacrificing in there support and encouragement to us. It is very hard for them to have us so far away, they miss not having us around, miss our touch, miss our time together, but Jehovah has seen there sacrifice and whole hearted support to us and he has blessed them in many ways that makes us so very happy. Lots of love to you all :)
Sarah and I would like to say thank you the Cotton family and the Indes family from Cypress Cong in LA. They took us in as though we are family and we where so touched by there love and care toward us. We could never thank them enough. The Cypress Cong took us in and we always feel at home when we visit. The international brotherhood in amazing, it was lovely to talk to ones that have very real hardships but they continue to put Jehovah first and keep moving forward. We always enjoy reading the year books for the amazing experiences of our dear brothers and sisters around the world, but this little trip we did taught me something, that if we just look around the kingdom hall we find year book type of experiences everywhere, we saw this in Australia and in LA. I think thats why this trip was such a huge boost. I would love to give you all details but for one, I would be writing forever, and two, we do not want to embarrass anyone. We love you all and we say thank you for sticking strong to Jehovah not matter what your circumstances.
Well through our trip we shared some photos of our life in Peru and we thought we would post these so that anyone that missed them and wanted to see them could have a chance, we will put a little description on each one.
Love to you all,
Joshua & Sarah
So this is our territory:
Our home:
This is a congregation that is about 2 hours drive from us and have been building there Kingdom Hall with the money they have, they have been building it for over 5 years now and they are mostly farmers in a poor community, so after each harvest they donate as much as they can to the construction of there Kingdom Hall. There generosity is so very encouraging.
Taking the witno stands around:
The hilly terrain of our territory:
These are some amazing kids, they are all 12 years of age or under except one girl who is 14, all are baptised besides the little boy, 1 of the girls is a auxiliary pioneer, 3 of them are regular pioneers and the older boy in the picture has a young brother that is 8 years of age and also a regular pioneer with is own 5 bible studies. These two boys have just finished the language school for a native language in the area with there parents. Very inspirational
