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 :)

Circuit Assembly Photos

Hello everyone :)

Here are some photos of the Circuit Assembly we had in December :)

 Yep we started setting all this up at 5pm the day before... CRAZY hahahaha but as always with Jehovahs spirit it was completed :)

 I started the Saturday with a suit jacket. I realised that I was the only one wearing a suit jacket and I soon realised why... It got so hot hahaha. Safe to say that on Sunday I didn't bring a jacket ;P

 Us with the Circuit Overseer's Wife, she is such a lovely sister that helped us a lot with her encouragement and experience... its a shame we don't have a photo with him but he was super busy doing a good job.

 Us with the Distric Overseer and his wife. Man they are an amazing example... that do so much and come for a place even HOTTER than Tarapoto... Him and his wife gave so much encouragement as he stayed with our cong for a week.

As you can see we didn't even where jackets even on the platform hehehe... I had a beautiful privilege  of being interviewed with some other amazing pioneers from our congregation :)

We will post some more photos soon :)

Love to you all :)

Motocar, Tarapoto, Photos

 THE MOTORCAR PARKED IN OUR HOUSE ;D

 MONKEY'S AT OUR STUDIES PLACE

 LITTLE CHICKEN FOR A LITTLE CHICKEN

 THE VIEW

 WOOHOOO

DRIVING ALONG

Its been to Long...

Hello our friends and family,

We apologise for the delay in our updates... it has been a busy few weeks...
So where did we leave off?? ahh the Circuit Assembly.. yes..
Well since then we have been busy with our studies and Sarah has been doing a great job with her studies... her spanish has improved so much that she now is doing an answer or two per meeting and having conversations :) so proud of my baby. We have a study with a lovely lady that is happy for us to come back day after day for a study... so amazing.. she has a bit of trouble reading which means more practice for us hehehe... Sarah smashes it.

I did my first bible highlights in spanish the other day... that was nerve racking... but not as much as my first public talk that was in spanish... It was in a little group that we support as a congregation in a town named Chazuta which is about 1hour away from Tarapoto... they have 12publishers. It was a beautiful drive there. It was so special because Dan and Jen with my beautiful niece Amiel was there to see it and my mum made a special trip down to Tarapoto from Lima to see it... We thank them so much for making a special effort... We love our family so much.
We have been spending time with Dan, Jen and Amiel for a bit over a week so far and we are with them for another 2 weeks here in Lima. It has been so nice to see them again and spend time with them... we are heading to the beach in the next couple days for a bit of a holiday with the family which we are looking forward to.
In Tarapoto we all went to the beautiful waterfall, Zoo and Muyabamba which has hot springs, orchard nursery and a very beautiful place to swim in cold water.. Dan, Jen and Amiel loved it and loved seeing where we are serving and we loved it too :)

Ah I just remembered another awesome little experience we had in the ministry the other day. I went back to a RV that we hadn't been able to get home in a while, he was home this time and we had a lovely chat about learning about the bible... he asked us to come back for a study and he asked if we sold Bibles... I said we don't but we give them away for free... well he gave a large donation and really showed his appreciation for all the work put into producing a bible. It was lovely to see a family man interested in Bible truths.

We also had our Pioneer Day which was just cool and super encouraging... All about keeping our Joy and how important it is... amazing little points and just super timely as usually. We had our Pioneer meeting with the elders as well and that was a boost... some interesting points about keeping up with the Faithful Slave.

Well now I am going to post some photos... But to finish this little post we would like to say thank you to all the support everyone has been giving us either through there lovely comments, emails, gifts and others. We would like to thank our families for there support such as the Markakis family back in Aus that have helped us prepare and continue to give us emotional support, we thank the Muniz family here in Peru that have been so generous, for example Tio Ivan has been letting us stay in his apartment at the moment as Mums house is full... and so many other lovely things... we thank Mami Grete (Joshs grandma) for her beautiful support. We could go on forever with all the encouragement we get from everyone, so thank you all... it really does help us keep going though not only our challenges but our adventures :P

Love you all,
Josh and Sarah

some More PICS :D

Hello all,

Here are some more photos all :)

 YEP... nothing more to be said

 Our address

 Clean clothes :D

 Our kitchen

Our home... fully Re-Painted :D

Circuit Assembly - Studies - photos

Hi everyone :D

Hope everyone is well :) thank you all for your emails and lovely comments. We love hearing from you all, it really is a boost of encouragement to us, so please keep it up :)

So this past week has been amazing and hot as well. We had the privilege of being the host CONG ("congregation" for those in the US of A    ;P) for the Circuit Assembly, so we had the privilege of having the C.O and D.O with us for a week. There where so many encouraging points brought out and awesome ways to be more effective in our ministry. I got the privilege of taking the D.O to my new study, Manuel, which is a young boy (13) soaking up the truth and loving the studies we are having. We had a great time.
We had our Pioneer Day on Friday which was AMAZING... very encouraging... the focus was on "Joy", and that it comes from within us because its a fruitage of the spirit. There where many points that showed us how to cultivate Joy and when to use it and in what way to use it.
Sarah put such a great effort in to understand what was being said... I wrote down as many points as I could and shared them with her at the end of the day. She soaked it all up. She is doing so great in keeping her Joy even though its so very hard when your learning a language... such a big encouragement for me to work as hard as I can :D
Friday afternoon I helped in the setting up for the Circuit Assembly which they had in a Mini Stadium... it was very simple but they say it was a massive improvement from the year before... They plan to improve it even more so for next time... The brother keep trying to do there best, so faith strengthening...
It was so funny on the Sunday of the Assembly they announced that if anyone could help with the packing up and cleaning it would much appreciated and that they would start packing up around 30min after the session ended so there would be time to encourage one another... well as soon as the prayer finished all the "brother" started packing up the chairs and the stage and everything... they where so quick... taking bags of chairs and everything... there was so much help... I closed my eyes for 2 seconds and all the chairs where gone and the sisters had started sweeping... well it wasn't that fast but you get the point :D
Anyways Bro David (who got assigned from the couples school to our cong about 8 months ago) and me where like, "Whats going on... didn't they announce that we would pack up 30min after, so we can converse and be encouraged a bit??"
well the reason it got done so quick was that the stadium they hired for the Assembly happened to be a Soccer (football) Stadium with a few fields so play soccer, and of course there as a big match about to start in 30min... CONG vs CONG hahahahah well brothers & sisters vs brothers & sisters. ahhahaha so in a way there would be conversing and we hope there was encouragement too hahaha

It was funny.

We miss you all and Love you all every much.

Here are some more photos :)

 YEah at the end of the day... we are so tired...

 Our Favourite Lunch spot - 2 Course meal for under $2

 "what's a castle doing here??" - Sarah says

 Beautiful !

A heap of walking and heaps of stairs :S

PHOTOS... PHOTOS... and a bit of an update :D

Hello all,

So it has been a busy week... WE MOVED IN TO OUR NEW HOME :D wooohoooo... and we moved in on Wednesday morning... was a bit rushed but it worked out well :) we have our little fridge, stove and washing machine :) we bought a mattress on the day we moved in.... and the brothers that live right next to us have leant us a bed frame and a little table with two chairs :D hehehe so we are set... safe to say mums big box of gifts have helped us settle in really quick.

Sarah is loving the new kitchen and cooking up a storm while I eat as if there is a storm coming hehehe. It truly has been a blessing from Jehovah how everything has worked out. So smooth with no real problems :)

WE BOUGHT A MOTOKAR hehehe which a lot of you know it as a Tuk Tuk... a three wheeled motorbike :) We bought it so we could save on taxi rides everywhere, also to get to our Studies and Return Visit easier instead of walking everywhere... it has been a huge help.

So the ministry... It has still been awesome... Sarah has 2 studies now and she is doing so well with them.. the way it works here is you visit them nearly ever couple of days for a study... and same goes with return visit... it is great. We will be going to one of Sarah's studies this afternoon. We are looking forward to it :) My ministry is going awesome as well... I went back to a return visit that was meant to be a girl but I got her brother, I talk to him a bit and showed him the Great Teacher book and he said he would love to have a study... I am going back to him tomorrow afternoon with the brother from France, Thomas. We also met 3 people on one map the other day that said their home all day, everyday, and would love us to go visit and have a study whenever... the only trouble is there a bit far away.... oh wait thats why we have the motorKar :D hehehe

Saturday during the meeting there was a storm and the electricity was going on and off during the meeting... which is a problem because the meeting is during the night ahahha... so the brother was using a phone as a light to conduct the watchtower and everyone had to yell out there answers... was an amazing experience... and the highlight was when we sang the last song without music... it sounded beautiful :D it was a fun night :D

Anyways here are some more photos as promised :D

 The French Couple - been here for over 6 months

The joys of mud... so much mud :S

 Jessica - Special Pioneer that has been such a big help to us

 Well... not much to say about this...

The territory :D