weIgHt lOse - and SeTTeLing

Hello our dear friends :)
We are starting to get back into things again, we forgot how hot it gets here, but its good for me so I can lose all that weight I put on back in Australia, to much GALAKTOMPOUREKO made by Mumma Raymond (Sarah's Mum) and homemade CINNAMON ROLLS by Jen (my sister). Worth every plate hehehe

We are just amazed about the territory, so much interest. Sarah has smashed into it starting new studies left, right and centre hahaha.
I found a new study... but I had to find it at the highest and steepest part of the territory of course, but this young man, who's name is Jimmy, is such a humble and just loves to learn more about the bible. His eyes just lit up when he learnt from the bible that God's name is Jehovah and not Jesus.
Anyways, would love to tell you all many more beautiful experiences but time just gets away. So we have attached some photos to tell the stories for us.

We miss you all our dear friends and family. We thank you all for your loving support and look forward to hearing from you all.

Warm Christian Love,
Joshua and Sarah Rado



We helped Rachel's (Sarah's sister) housemate move... so this is house moving in the jungle with motorcar's hahaha

Witnessing stand at the entrance of the market. Aways have an amazing experience when we do the stand. Nearly everyday the stand is running there is at least one bible study started.

Saturday morning group under the tree.

YEah thats SAFE.....

Our new C.O and his wife. Amazing couple and very encouraging to us. Had the privilege of having them other for pancakes and fruit salad after the Tuesday night meeting.

Our pioneer meeting with the C.O. there a haPPy bunch :D

The sisters... both loving the BEST LIFE EVER :D

So this is where I found Jimmy... see those little people all the way down there??? yep thats where we had to walk up from hahaha - AVENTURA (adventure)

Back in PERU

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

Past Year Summed Up

Hello our dear friends,

I have to apologise that we have not update our blog in such a long time. These last few months have been very busy. But heres is a bit of a sum up of the past year.

We have now been serving in La Banda de Shilcayo congregation in Tarapoto, Peru, for a year now and it has been an absolute blessing. Jehovah has shown us that this is the best life for us and we are loving seeing his guidance and support in all that we are doing. Through out this past year we have had the privilege of having 25 bible studies between Sarah and I. 6 of our studies are attending the meeting and that puts us on a spiritual high. We have the amazing privilege of being able to come back to Australia for the International Assembly in Melbourne. We also got to visit our dear Mark and Naomi in bethel Australia for a few days and that was a beautiful experience.

I will relate one of our beautiful experiences that Jehovah has given us. We went out witnessing one morning and I worked with a young brother in our congregation, and we where talking away and I asked him if he had any studies or return visits, his reply was, "I had one study but I have none at the moment." So i asked why that was the case, he didn't really know what to say, but it seemed that he just needed a bit of encouragement. Well I prayed for Jehovah to help him get the confidence to start a return visit. Sure enough the next door he did he found a teenager around his age that was very interested in the bible, they conversed and found out they where in the same school, the young brother showed him the bible teach book and confidently asked the householder if he would like a bible study - he accepted. And they arranged to do the study in a weeks time. As we left the house the teenage boy stopped us and said that his grandma wanted to talk to us, now I thought she was going to tell us off, but it was the opposite. She said that she has been very sick suffering with diabetes and she had been praying for someone to come and teach her about the bible and show her hope, in her pray she also asked God for someone to come and help her grandson as he is a sweet kid but she is worried that the bad in the world would corrupt him. She invited us into her home and we talked for some time with her and showed her the bible teach book and how the study works, well she pretty much asked for a bible study. So we arranged a time to come back the following week, and invited her and her grandson to the meeting.

That week at the meeting I was running around and a brother approached me around half way through the meeting and said someone is asking for me outside - sure enough it was this dear grandma with her grandson. They came in and loved the meeting - the following study we showed her how the watchtower is done and she had in prepared for the following meeting. What I loved about this little experience was how it affected that dear young brother, he always was at meetings with his mum and would rarely give answers and didn't really show a whole lot of interest in the meetings - but when he saw his study come to the meeting that day, he was on a high, he ran around getting him a bible and song book, showing his young study all the brothers and the young friends he had in the congregation, he was so happy. Since then they have been regularly having a study and the young brother is having more participation in the meetings.

Jehovah is surely speeding up the work and it is so amazing how he encourages us all to keep going in this wicked system.

 Well that was just one of the beautiful experience we have enjoyed this year - we will try to update the blog post a bit more regularly. But at the moment we are in Melbourne, Australia, for the International Assembly -  we are so excited to have an assembly in english and be able to understand all of it hahahahaha, even more so that it is an International - hope to catch up with some of you there.

We shall be heading back to Peru in the middle of November, shall try to keep you all posted. We would like to thank all of you for your loving support that encourages us to keep doing what we can in Jehovah's service. We say thank you to our family that has given us so much encouragement and support.

We shall post photos on Google+.

May Jehovah continue to be with you all.

Joshua & Sarah Rado

Tarapoto UPDATE - Experience

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.

its been TOO long.. our apologise :(

Hello all,

We apologise that we haven't put up a post in a while, been busy as over here.
So here is a bit of an update of a few things that have been happening over here.
In the next blog we will put up some new photos :)

So in the past month we traveled to Lima to finish (for now) the paperwork for Sarah to become a Peruvian Resident.. and we are happy to say with Jehovahs help and my mums translating Sarah now is a Peruvian Resident which helps us to serve Jehovah here even more as it means we do not have to leave the country and we can work if need be. Also a major bonus is tourism stuff and other things become either free or really cheap :D :D how Jehovah blesses hehehe

So with that done we did a little trip to CUZCO, Sarah absolutely feel in LOVE with Cuzco.
We visited my Papa (grandfather) who is faithful serving Jehovah there at the age of 89.. by himself for the most part but for the past year or so he has had the company of two of my cousins from Australia, Patrica and Michael, who are support the kingdom work in Cuzco and have been living with Papa. We got to spend some good quality time with them and in the ministry with them and met there congregation. We had a lovely time. In there congregation they have a couple who just recently graduated from Gilead :) They are a very inspiring couple. There from the UK.
The ministry in Cuzco is amazing as well... in the city centre its a bit tuff but when you get to the outskirts your talking about 20 studies per pioneer MINIMUM... Sarah was like, "I want to serve here!!" hahaha i think that has something to do with the weather in Cuzco... because Cuzco is a fresher climate.. not to hot... and Tarapoto is always hot... and if any of you know Sarah ... well... safe to say the heat doesn't FIT with Sarah...
My dear wife is doing such a great job putting up with the climate here.. makes me want to do more and encourages me very much. She always tries to stay positive and gives it her best even when everything goes up in the air.. at the moment the water issue has been very annoying hahaha
The water here has a mind of its own.. it turns off whenever it wants... usually at midday until 5pm which is the time when its the hottest and you just want a shower hahaha... we fill up a bucket so that we have some water during that period hehehe.
We always try to work around our challenges and look at the positive :) for example if you every knock on our door around midday in the heat of the day you will find us sitting on our bed... in front of a fan going full blast.. watching a movie or a TV series... sipping on an icy homemade banana,maca,chocolate smoothy and a delicious lunch hahaha and we just chill like that for a good 2 hours hehehe
Then when the heat goes down a bit we head back out in the ministry :) We are enjoying it here and we truly feel the same as that sister on the website video... It truly is the best way of life.

Well I have blab on quite a bit know so I will leave it at that.
We will do a new post soon with some photos.

We miss you all very much and please let us know how you guys are going :) thank you all those for your emails and comments... they have encouraged us greatly.

Love to you all
Josh and Sarah Rado

UPDATE: HeRe are SomE details and a video and PHOTOS :)

Hello all,

Its been a while since we have put up a post. We apologise for this, has been a busy couple of weeks.
We miss you all and please keep your emails and updates coming... we love to hear what and how our friends and family are going :) Gives us encouragement to keep going :)

So here is a little update.
Our studies have been going great and our Spanish is getting there bit by bit.
We had an awesome party with the brothers and sisters from the congregation a week back and that was heaps of fun... they sure know who to party here :D Sarah was dancing all night.. hahaha she loved it.

We have been enjoying the awesome food here as well :D We went to a sisters house for lunch and had some traditional food and man... it was insanely delicious. Also we have an awesome lunch spot here which costs s/.4 which is around $1.75 and you get a two course meal WITH OPTIONS and REFIL DRINKS... so good... we love it... I have also been enjoying my wife awesome cooking. Can't help but mention that. hehehe

We have also started going to the gym here... for s/.3 per person ($2)... your can't not go hahaha.

We have been so blessed being here.. we have settled very nicely into our new congregation and have made some amazing friends. We have just received three sisters (a mum with here 2 adult daughters) that are going to serve here for 6 months and one of the daughters in an english teacher... which has been awesome for Sarah.

Anyways we will leave it there for today and put some photos and videos up so you guys can see whats going on here :)

Love to you all and please email us and let us know how you guys are going :) miss you all very much

p.s email is: joshua.rado@gmail.com

 Lunch at the sister house :D awesome food... jungle style

 Egg cooked in banana leaves... yum yums

 Tacacho (which is made of bananas and other yummy stuff) with BBQ(jungle style) pork

 Best PICARONES in the whole of Peru... right in our territory and only s/.1 = $0.30
These are peruvian doughnuts made from pumpkin and sweet potato and then fried.. add some traditional sweet sauce made from local sugar cane and other yummy stuff and your get these amazing doughnuts that you can't stop eating.... (thats why we are going to the gym hehehe)

 Sarah in her element :D

 I wasn't in my element that morning when put my shoes on before my pants :S

Our View 

Got this sneaky pic of Sarah witnessing... GOOD JOB LOVE :D


This is a video of some of the girls in our cong doing a dance at the party :D

Our little holiday with the Fitzsimmons :)

Hello all :)

Here are some photos of when the Fitzsimmons... Jen, Dan and little Amiel.. visited us :)

Little Amiel with Aunty Sarah

Off to Chazuta... The poor brother had to hold his window up because it kept falling down and on top of the taxi there where chickens that where pooing and it would hit the window

Chazuta territory

Our walk to a Mini Jungle Zoo

Dan bird watching ;P

Jungle Bear... i didn't even know there where bears in Peru hahaha

SMILE

Jungle Swing woohoo 

This place was awesome, Super cool water which was super refreshing

Two cuties 

Jehovah's amazing creation :D

Witnessing Stand - Rain Witno - Transport rural witnessing style :D (PHOTOS)

Hello all :)
We hope all are well. We miss you all so very much. Here are some catch up photos :) We hope you like them.
Please keep up with your emails and comments and letting us know how you guys are going as it is a huge encouragement for us to have such beautiful friends.

Dan, Jen and our little beautiful niece Amiel paid us a visit here in Tarapoto for a week in the last week of last year :) we had a great time with them and we will post photos of there stay with us as soon as possible :) anyone that wants to visit us, COME :D your more than welcome and we love your company... we miss you all :)

We traveled to Lima with Dan, Jen and Amiel for a bit of a holiday and also had to run around trying to organise Sarah's residency here in Peru... man, what a headache is has been but with Jehovahs help and my mum translating everything for us we have got the hard yards done... we still have more to do, which we don't even know what that is yet hahaha
So all in all it was a lovely trip and we enjoyed our holiday very much :) we will post photos of that trip as soon as we can as well :)

We arrive back in Tarapoto just 2 days ago and have been getting back into routine... We got straight back into our studies and we are loving it :) we feel to privileged to be here and we can see Jehovah blessing us everyday with so many things :)

Here are some photos all :)
 Love to all :)

 Witnessing stand at market

 The rain won't stop us from witnessing (colour matching was not on purpose, that would be just lame  ;P  )

 Standing in the back of the truck on the way to a village that hasn't been witnessed to in over a year :)

 It was a fun trip :D

 And this is the territory that hadn't been done for a year... Sarah lost a sandal here... hahaha

 Our little kittens.. so cute... btw the books are only on the floor because we didn't have a bookshelf yet... but we do now hehehe

 The view... amazing :D

The mud... not so amazing... all part of the adventure... no need for ankle weights here :P

Our pioneer meeting with the elders :)