We are "Fat" with blessings :)

This week has been very enjoyable and busy :) We haven't taken out the bikes though, just a lot of walking in service. I had a new call this week that I took Micah Hedger on with me. Haha, he told me when we finally got there "This is a looong way to walk Lacey!!!!" But it was well worth it. It was an older man that I had found in the territory 2 weeks ago. He and his wife came to the door and we found out they were from Colorado. He was very friendly and said that he would like for us to come back and explain some of our beliefs to him. Oh yea, and he's a minister of the Church of Christ. I was a little apprehensive going back, like what am I getting myself into, and we decided on the subject of Jesus and salvation. So finally this week I went back. He was so warm and invited us in to sit down. On the table he had his bible, and after the small chitchat, he said "Now I really don't want to argue" haha, I was relieved and assured him that neither did we. Then proceeded an hour and half long conversation where we shared several scriptures supporting that Jehovah and Jesus are distinct and separate personages (he's very trinitarian). He would write each scripture down in his notebook and then carefully and thoughtfully read each one. He would ask questions to make sure he understood what we were saying, and then pose his ideas. It was all very calm and relaxed and thought provoking. I don't think we overturned that strongly entrenched idea of his, but he did say we gave him something to think about. Towards the end of the convo he said he would like very much for us to come back and continue our discussion. He joked and said we could talk about something more lighthearted, like Christmas and why we don't celebrate, but we also decided to talk about heaven and paradise earth. This is the first call I've ever had like this. I think its nice to just lay out the truth in its entirety and have him take it all in. He said that no other Jehovah's Witness that has called on him has come back a second time. So I was very happy to do so and look forward to our further discussions.

Also on thursdays a fairly new sister in our hall, Claudia, has been going with me on my bible studies. She is originally from Tapachula, Chiapas. She has a 15 year old son and is married to a brother from Oaxaca who is a doctor. She is such a pleasure to have accompany me. I love how she is such a people person, I have already learned a lot just by being in her company. I feel bad because a lot of times there are so many indigenous people who come up to me selling things that I don't even look at them but just say "no gracias". Well when they came up to her she just talked with them and complimented them on their work and told them she didn't have money right now. Their whole face changed when she talked, she really dignified them, and I learned something....Also when we were in a cambi on the way back from a study she chatted up a gentleman who worked for the radio. She had the whole cambi enthralled with the conversation and laughing too. She placed magazines with him too. We often talk about food and cooking on the long walks to my studies. So far she has taught me how to make two dishes that will "kill any Mexican man, or any man for that matter" as she says because they are so good :) She also helped me this week to reason with my study Claudia about the Trinity teaching. I didn't mention that she has 2 painful and taxing sicknesses that she deals with, yet she is always positive and laughing, you would never know...

Also today I re-started a bible study that had been a doorstep study, and today she, Brenda, invited us in. We covered two questions in the Truth tract. She was very talkative about how she felt and responded well to what the Bible had to say. Afterwards she offered us a snack....cookies? a warm drink? candy? Nope. She offered us a oaxaqueno delight....chapulinos. They are fried grasshoppers with lime and chile :) And yes, we ate them, and yes, they were good :)

Also, a funny story....Today we called on one of my longtime RV's Ana Claudia. We were supposed to study today but she was very busy cooking for a party. Also her little boy was sick with vomiting and she said that her husband was out getting medicine, suppositories, for his "colita, his a**, you know you just put them there the a**" haha, we knew what she meant, it was just so funny her word usage, I didn't have the heart to correct her :) Last week she had complimented Summer on how beautiful and thin she looked. This week as we were about to leave she looked at Summer and said "Don't fat again. Pleeease, don't fat again!" I thought she meant fart, but soon enough realized she was telling Summer not to get fat, but to stay thin. We just about died laughing there on the spot, but thankfully we kept our composure and kept the laughter in till we got to the car. Summer was not offended but we were both very tickled.

Well, thats a just few good things that have been happening this week....Summer will share some more with you later :)