This week was GREAT! It was superrrrrr busy but awesome in service.
Heres just a few experiences from this week:
On Friday we did a return visit that a visiting brother found in our territory a few months ago, I had returned a few times but hadnt be able to catch, so my conscience had been nagging me to go back and finally on Friday we did. He is a doctor raised in US, whose parents are from Israel, but migrated to El Salvador, and then to San Francisco. He speaks Hebrew, Spanish, and English fluently, and enough Tsotsil and Tseltal to get by! He begins to tell me and Lacey how thankful he is that we havent given up on him and decided to come back to visit him because he is very interested studying the Bible with Jehovah's Witnesses. His daughter and son are attending the Kingdom Hall in San Francisco. The only thing he tells us is that he wants to make sure that he is serving the right God, he says he wants to be convinced that what he is learning is the truth. So he asks us about God's name. Although he tells us he is not an easy one that he will make us think, he makes sure we know that he is not trying to be difficult or just test our beliefs but that it was a sincere desire to learn. When me and Lacey smiled after he said this, he said he appreciated the smiles but wanted us to know that it was very serious. That if we could convince him of this, we would be saving his soul. Right now he admits he is confused, frustrated, and disatisfied with his beliefs and wishes to know the truth, mainly where the name Jehovah came from. He has a book that a man recently brought him which claims that Jehova' in Spanish is a feminine name and is an inaccurate translation. Also this book claims that the name Jesus means horse. (What a nut job wrote that, am I right?!) So this morning at 7 am, I went to call back on him after doing some research of my own. He works at a clinic on Sundays and told us he could schedule one hour for us to "make our case". I figured I should arrive with my guns loaded so to speak so I brought Josias, the Divine Name brochure, the Awake from 2004 about Jehovah, the Insight book, and Reference Bible with the Appendix 1A, and some personal notes I made from a questions from readers article in 2008. He decided he wants to read through the material himself when he can absorb it and we are to return next Sunday to see what he thought of it, so we will keep yall posted and let you know how it goes!!
Also this week I had two new Bible Studies!! One was handed over to me by, Sofia Anderson, the sister visiting from Oregon, and the other is a girl I found in my territory that lived in Florida the first 11 years of her life. She is really really sweet and we have already made a return visit twice in the same week and she agrees to study. Lately we have had an increase in the interest found, it is incredibly uplifting and I hope now we can cultivate what we have found.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
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Good Job Lacey. Keep up the good work. We miss both of you. Jeannie Clark
ReplyDeleteThanks Jeannie! We loved having you here, we hope you both come back! Our service meetings arent the same without yall here!!
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