Hvca - Student efforts to progress

Hello again dear friends and family,

Here's a nice experience we saw recently in Huancavelica.

First the experience. This student of the bible has been studying for quite a few years and quite a few members of her family are already in the truth. She has a young little girl that loves Jehovah as well. Well for many years she could not progress because she wasn't legally married and her partner, although not opposed and even studied for a while, did not want to get married. One of the major issues was economy. Well she was determined, she took advantage of the local laws that now and then have free civil weddings and did all the paperwork by herself to get married. There's always a cost involved which she covered with her savings from her small internet store. Jehovah blessed her efforts and is now a publisher going out in the ministry with your little daughter. She is so happy and her husband is now attending meetings now and then. Here's a photo of her with her daughter out in the ministry.

There is more to this beautiful story that we shall post very soon...

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Sending our love to all

Hvca - Giving spirit from community

Hello dear friends,

Heres a little update on the construction of the new kingdom hall in Huancavelica (Hvca).
The construction has been going great and have had some beautiful willing brothers and sisters that have come to help. Just last week we had over 70 volunteers that had come to help, some have come as far away as 12 hours on bus.

The bible students have shown such an appreciative spirit about the construction that many have donated food products. One couple gave around 100 oranges, another a chicken, another 50kg of potatoes and the list goes on.
The whole town knows about the construction and are very happy about it. Huge praise to Jehovah's name.

Keep checking back for new adventures.


Heres a photo of buying the groceries for the week, very happy with the security as well, keeping all the groceries safe and sound.

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Hvca - Construction experience

Hello friends,

Just wanted to share a little experience from today in Hvca (Huancavelica, Peru)

At the moment we are building a new Kingdom Hall in Huancavelica, it is the first Kingdom Hall in all of the State. It's has been so amazing to see brothers and sisters travel from different parts of the country to help out. But more about the construction in another post.

So today Sarah was walking to the kitchen site to help with cooking lunch for the construction team and popped into a mini store to buy some groceries. Sarah and the store owner started a conversation, the lady asked what Sarah was doing in Hvca (Huancavelica) and so Sarah explained that she is here doing volunteer work as a Jehovah's Witness and that it just so happens that we are building a new Kingdom Hall in the area. The lady asked in Spanish, "Does that have something to do with the letters JW?" Sarah said, "Yes". The lady explained that her sister living in Italy had told her to look up the website JW telling her that it is a great website with heaps of information, including for the family. The lady had written down on a piece of paper the website as www.jw.com, Sarah corrected it to www.jw.org and encouraged her to look it up.
A little return visit was started.

Till next time friends


Heres a photo of the construction site:

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Back to the Jungle

Hello dear friends and family,

No we are not in the jungle, we are in a city called Huancavelica, we shall give some details about this beautiful city in future posts. In the next few posts we will be going back in time and relating a few experiences that we have seen and heard since being in Peru and serving where the need is greater, ones that we have not had the opportunity to mention in early posts, sorry if we accidentally repeat.

Hope you enjoy these catch up posts with with some little hints of what we are up to right now :)

Lets go back to La Banda de Shilcayo, Tarapoto, Peru around 2014.

Experience:
On day a publisher was preaching doing some return visits and found a nice older lady at a return visit but wasn't the same person as last time. The publisher did a simple presentation based on the Watchtower of the month and the lady listened and then mentioned she was going through a hard time with serious health problems, and was worried as she is a grandma that supports some of her older children and grandchildren as they are not doing well economically.
As conversation continued the lady insinuated that she wanted to study the bible quite a few times, and then she just outright asked to study the bible.
A bible study was started and she continued to make progress spiritually.
We just never know where the kingdom message will have fruit.

Keep posted for more short experiences,
Josh and Sarah Rado


Here is a photo of the beautiful jungle of Tarapoto, Peru:

Back Online

Hello dear friends and family,

It has been nearly around 2 years since our last blog post. Very sorry about this.
We hope you have been able to see some of our activity on Instagram.

We are pleased to let you know that we will be posting more regularly over the next few months. We will be writing up some beautiful experiences that we have witnessed or heard about while we have been in Peru. As always we love to hear your beautiful experiences as well.

Keep posted,

Love Josh and Sarah

Hi all our dear friends and family,

We must apologise another long wait between posts. We have included some more photos this time :)

So here is a little update, we have been in Cuzco for around 5 months now enjoying the construction work at the RTO for the Quechua language of Cuzco area. This has been a huge blessing.
The translation work being done here in Peru is absolutely crazy. To give an idea, there are over 40 different native languages in Peru alone, not including the different dialects, and the Society is at the fore front of this translation work. They are preaching in around 20 languages and translating literature in around 8 languages in the Peru Branch territory, these include all or in part, the "Become Jehovah's Friend" series, Watchtower&Awake, Tracts, Kingdom Ministry, brochures, books, new releases, and all the videos we see at the conventions. That is a lot of work that many, many dear brothers are working hard, either from home or translation offices, which by the way are not in Bethel type buildings, majority are working out of rented buildings, apartments or homes. In fact the Cusco RTO is only one of three RTO's (Remote Translation Offices) being built at this moment, and before these there where none. So we feel its a huge privilege to be able to help these dear brothers in a small way.

While we have been here in Cuzco we have been visited by family and friends from Australia which has been a huge encouragement to us, the short time we had with them we will never forget, thank you for coming, and hope to see you soon :)

Anyways here are some photos of what we have been up to, we promise there will be more photos coming soon, and thank you all for your loving support, as always we would love to hear for you all.

Picture 1: We have the privilege of visiting the reed islands in Puno on lake Titicaca, we had this opportunity because we missed our circuit assembly in Tarapoto because we went to the construction so the Branch arranged for us to go to Puno to have the Assembly which was a huge blessing

Picture 2: Enjoying our time on the lake :)

Picture 3: This is where the construction was at when we arrived in Cusco, it was at demolition stage for the old Kingdom Halls they had on the property, all to make room for the RTO

Picture 4: the 2 Kingdom Halls are now GONE to make way for the Residency building, as you can see in the picture the Office Building is up to the second story

Picture 5: Foundations for the Residency Building, it has been designed so that the building can be expanded to 4 stories if needed, and thats why the foundations are so deep

Picture 6: Columns made from rio and concrete starting from foundation to roof hight

Picture 7: Sarah doing some concreting

Picture 8: this little guy kicked me out of my seat hehehe

Picture 9: Sarah compacting the dirt in preparation for the concrete floor

Memorial - Tarapoto to Cuzco - Construction

Hello of dear Friends,
So a lot has happened in the last few months.
We went to a Congregation a few hours away for the memorial, we also where privileged to be invited to the Zone Visit in Lima, and when we got back to Tarapoto we got invited to the Construction of an RTO (Remote Translation Office) in Cuzco and had 2 weeks to sell all our things and move to Cuzco.

So we have been in the construction work for a month now and we are loving it. It is hard work and we are still getting used to the routine of starting breakfast at 7am and working till 5pm - 5 days a week - and ministry on Saturday and Sunday.
Sarah has been trained in cutting steel, laying bricks and today she did spray painting, she has been doing such a great job. Jehovah has helped us so very much. Even though we get tired, just some how we find the energy to keep working and keep our joy.

So before this whole construction thingy, we where in Tarapoto. The Memorial was beautiful, we got invited to another congregation for the Memorial which was in town called Saposoa, amazing place in the jungle, so beautiful and such a beautiful congregation. They had to divide the congregation in 2 for the Memorial, having to sessions one at 6:30 and the other at 8:00.
It was a bit of a shame because we were not able to make it to our congregations Memorial but we found out that a few of our studies where able to make it which was great news.

We also had the privilege of traveling to Lima for the Zone Visit which was an amazing experience, there was over 6,000 in attendance and all the pioneers where invited from lima and missionaries from around the country as well as special pioneers and Need Greater, save to say the crowd was buzzing. Amazing to see so many putting Jehovah first in there lives.

So then came the move, Sarah and I where in a bit of situation, we where not sure what to do, we had applied to learn "Shawi" through the Language school, which is a native language in the amazon jungle, there are about 20,000 people that speak the language and just one group that attends the huge area. Well we waited for about 2 months, we had been accepted to do the school but there was not enough people for it, there was only 5 people able to do it but they needed at least 20 to do the school. So we where eager to do more but were not sure where to go, then we had the idea of supporting a group about 1 hour away. We prayed to Jehovah for guidance.... and then we got a call from Bethel to go the Construction to CUZCO.... we where shocked but so excited, Sarah was so happy because she absolutely loves Cuzco.
So we had 2 weeks to get to Cuzco, we thought we had simplified our life when we made the move to Peru, but now we are down to 1 suitcase for Sarah and 1 suitcase for Josh, hahahaha, but we feel we have far more, in so many other ways.
We where very sad to leave our little home, and our congregation La Banda de Shilcayo as well as our studies, but Jehovah made everything work out so smoothly. So many things just worked and fell into place.

Well theres a little update on all thats been happening, Sarah and I would like to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to all our friends and family for all your support, we wouldn't be able to be here without you all. We would love to hear how you are all going, please comment or send us an email.

Well here are a few photos love you all:

Our dear landlords from La Banda - they left for their assignment 2 weeks before us to Iquitos as special pioneers for Sign Language

Memorial in Saposoa

Spot the Peruvian...... hahahaha - foreigners invade

Our dear Brother Orlando giving a great no.3 talk - he has been blind from birth, has such great love for Jehovah

Sarah absolutely loving it -