g'Day Maties, nuestros amigos, dear friends,
Hope you are doing well, thank you all for your beautiful emails and comments, it is very encouraging to us.
So it's been almost 2 months since we have gotten back from visiting the land down under (Australia). Heres a bit of an update of want has been happening in "La Banda de Shilcayo" - Peruvian Jungle.
Rachel (Sarah's sister) has been doing an amazing job getting through the challenges of the mighty JUNGLE hahaha, Jehovah has blessed her with 11 studies in her first couple of months. When you see people thrusting for the truth here, the challenges are nothing. Seeing her trust in Jehovah has boosted our zeal.
We also enjoyed our Pioneer Meeting with the elders with a total of 22 regular pioneers in attendance. It is beautiful to have so many pioneers, it's a shame we don't get to spend much time with each other in the ministry - why?? because we all have so many studies we don't have much time left to go with others to there studies hahahaha - but we make arrangements to enjoy each others company as much as possible :)
Let us tell you all about one of the new students of the bible, Jimmy. I had mentioned him in the last blog post, he is the one at the top of a mountain hahaha. Well happily we have found a bit of an easier way of getting to his house, still involves a bit of a climb but its better than the alternative. Well we have been regularly studying with Jimmy every week on Sunday mornings, and in the process his wife and daughter have joined in and have showed a lot of interest in the study, following along in there own copy of the brochure.
Now some of you might be wondering about the two young boys that where studying and came to a few meetings, Perdo and Ricardo, well now one of our younger pioneers around 15 years of age is studying with both of them, one on Wednesday mornings and the other Friday mornings, and they continue to progress. Interesting there was another young boy that lives in there neighbourhood named Diego, he is the granddaughter of a sister in our congregation but his mum and dad are not witnesses, well Diego is 8 years old and had heard about Perdo and Ricardo studying and wanted a study of his own, so one day he decided to go visit his Grandma and go to the meeting with her, he enjoyed the meeting and he told his Grandma that he wanted to study the bible with a brother, so after the meeting they approached me and asked if I would be willing to study with him, well of course I said YES hehehe, we have now been studying for a few weeks every Thursday and Friday morning and he his loving it, his father is also showing interest and encouraging Diego to continue to study and prepare for the study.
The witnessing stand has also been drawing humble hearted ones out, one day this lady with her two sons approached Sarah and asked for the Watchtower and Awake but also wanted the 'Good News" brochure and Bible Teach book, Sarah was about to offer her a free home bible study when she asked Sarah if she could visit her to study the bible, hahaha, and before Sarah could ask for the address the lady was writing it down, as well as her phone number and said to just call and she will be there. Well we have been studying with her for a few weeks and she has been loving the things she has been learning and has expressed a keen interest in coming to the meetings.
On a bit of a side note, Sarah and I have been here for over a year know and have been studying with quite a few different ones on a regular bases, but we had been feeling that they didn't understand us and where just being polite, so we where expecting to come back from our trip and find that we had lost some studies, but that was not the case, all our studies from before our trip where so happy we where back and during the study they would mention all the things they had learned from previous studies, that has been a very very big encouragement to us, as we thought we weren't being understood but with Jehovah's help these humble ones have soaked up bible truths and it's a privilege that Jehovah has given us the opportunity to see their progress in their own personal relationship with him.
Well we will leave it there for now, we have so many more beautiful experiences but we will leave it there until next time. Hear are some photos :D
We send our warm love to you all :)
Joshua and Sarah Rado
Hope you are doing well, thank you all for your beautiful emails and comments, it is very encouraging to us.
So it's been almost 2 months since we have gotten back from visiting the land down under (Australia). Heres a bit of an update of want has been happening in "La Banda de Shilcayo" - Peruvian Jungle.
Rachel (Sarah's sister) has been doing an amazing job getting through the challenges of the mighty JUNGLE hahaha, Jehovah has blessed her with 11 studies in her first couple of months. When you see people thrusting for the truth here, the challenges are nothing. Seeing her trust in Jehovah has boosted our zeal.
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| The SMILING PIONEERS :D |
Let us tell you all about one of the new students of the bible, Jimmy. I had mentioned him in the last blog post, he is the one at the top of a mountain hahaha. Well happily we have found a bit of an easier way of getting to his house, still involves a bit of a climb but its better than the alternative. Well we have been regularly studying with Jimmy every week on Sunday mornings, and in the process his wife and daughter have joined in and have showed a lot of interest in the study, following along in there own copy of the brochure.
Now some of you might be wondering about the two young boys that where studying and came to a few meetings, Perdo and Ricardo, well now one of our younger pioneers around 15 years of age is studying with both of them, one on Wednesday mornings and the other Friday mornings, and they continue to progress. Interesting there was another young boy that lives in there neighbourhood named Diego, he is the granddaughter of a sister in our congregation but his mum and dad are not witnesses, well Diego is 8 years old and had heard about Perdo and Ricardo studying and wanted a study of his own, so one day he decided to go visit his Grandma and go to the meeting with her, he enjoyed the meeting and he told his Grandma that he wanted to study the bible with a brother, so after the meeting they approached me and asked if I would be willing to study with him, well of course I said YES hehehe, we have now been studying for a few weeks every Thursday and Friday morning and he his loving it, his father is also showing interest and encouraging Diego to continue to study and prepare for the study.
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| Children wanting to see the literature and videos |
On a bit of a side note, Sarah and I have been here for over a year know and have been studying with quite a few different ones on a regular bases, but we had been feeling that they didn't understand us and where just being polite, so we where expecting to come back from our trip and find that we had lost some studies, but that was not the case, all our studies from before our trip where so happy we where back and during the study they would mention all the things they had learned from previous studies, that has been a very very big encouragement to us, as we thought we weren't being understood but with Jehovah's help these humble ones have soaked up bible truths and it's a privilege that Jehovah has given us the opportunity to see their progress in their own personal relationship with him.
Well we will leave it there for now, we have so many more beautiful experiences but we will leave it there until next time. Hear are some photos :D
We send our warm love to you all :)
Joshua and Sarah Rado
