Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Two beautiful days

Yesterday we had a fantastic day in FS:

We had gone to a far away area in our territory to call on a guy that asked us to go back on tuesday, so we did....he wasn't home, later, Art had a call with a lady and since he had two ladies with him we went, turns out...........she wasn't home either but as we are talking and looking at the territory, we noticed the house next door was someone home and it was a Not at home before, so we took the initiative and knocked. A nice man came out, he spoke really good english and showed him the "Truth" tract, he actually mentioned that he didn't have a religion so he "was a potential client", he was on the run but we made plans to come back next saturday. After that here we go, the 3 of us (Michelle, Art and Sofia) towards downtown to call on Karla, a girl I met the friday before, she was home and busy but she invited us in to the house (while poor Arturito was turning into an iceberg outside :-(), her mom offered us coffee and we had a nice discussion about the subject on the truth tract "Does God really care for us?", we told her tomorrow at the meeting we would have a talk about it too, she said she would be there. The nice thing about here is that people ask you where do we have our meetings, even in Mazatlan we don't have that reaction from Bible Students, here they have no regrets about going to a religious meeting.

Today we went out in FS, Art and I were in different service groups. Honestly in the territory it wasn't too productive, we found no one that spoke english, only tsotsil and tseltal (two most spoken indigenous languages here). On the way to meet up my hubby, a guy approached us asking for the magazines, he spoke tsotsil and came from another town, we gave him something in tsotsil and magazines in spanish, when he saw the Bible Teach book, he wanted it, we didn't have one in spanish with us but told him wherever he is at he can contact the JW and they will provide one in spanish.

In the afternoon at the meeting, Art had the privilege to offer the Bible highlights and a Service Meeeting part -he made us all laughed because of a parrot-, for next week he has the privilege of conducting Bible Study again. Myself, after 10 months!!!! of not having a talk in the TMS finally I had the privilege, and guess what!!!!!! Remember Karla? The girl that we are calling on? Well, we were very suprised to see her arrived by herself to the meeting, she could only stayed for 30 min.but she came and heard my talk, we will visit her next friday, she asked me: "Is this meeting all the time?", she was really surprised it was in english. So these were our great and interesting 2 days. We know many are reading what's happening in San Cristobal congregation, few are writing a comment, you see, it's encouraging for us too!!!

Espanol:
Ayer martes, tuvimos un excelente dia en el servicio:

Fuimos a un area bien lejos, parte de nuestro territorio. Habiamos quedado con un muchacho de visitarlo martes x la tarde, eso hicimos pero no estuvo. Despues, Art tenia una revisita con una senora joven y tampoco estuvo, pero luego viendo el territorio vimos enseguida de la casa de la senora que habia gente y que cuando trabajamos territorio no habia nadie en casa asi que decidimos preguntar si de casualidad alguien hablaba ingles, resulta que sale un muchacho y nos dice que pos si! Platicamos un ratitito porque ya iba de salida pero quedamos de volver el sabado, nos comento que como no tiene religion jajajaja "Es un cliente potencial" asi nos dijo jeje. De ahi nos dirigimos hacia el centro, los tres (Michelle, Art y mua) habia hecho planes de visitar a Karla, una jovencita a la que le habiamos dejado el tratado de la Verdad, estaba muy ocupada pero fue la primera vez que nos invito a entrar a su casa, su mama nos dio cafe, mi pobre esposito se quedo afuera tratando de manteniendose caliente, no pudimos ir todos pues 3 ya era multitud y la casa esta chiquita. Hablamos de si Dios se interesa por nosotros, recordo como buscar los textos en la Biblia y le comentamos que precisamente el dia siguiente se iba a dar un discurso sobre ese tema, le comente que a mi me tocaba darlo y dijo: "Ahi estare". Lo que me sorprende de aqui y me encanta es que la gente te pregunta donde tenemos las reuniones, donde nos pueden encontrar, incluso en Mzt no tenemos esa reaccion de los estudiantes. Aqui, dado que el estado es tan religioso, la gente no tiene nada de pena de ir a una reunion religiosa

Hoy, salimos al servicio por la manana, nos asignaron a grupos diferente. Honestamente no encontramos a nadie ingles sino a puro tsotsil y tseltal. De camino para ver a mi esposito en el parque, un senor nos detuvo, venia de otro pueblito, se veia muy apreciativo y queria informacion o las revistas, hablabla tsotsil asi que le dimos un tratado en tsotsil y las revistas en spanish pero cuando abri mi folder y vio el libro Ensena tambien deseaba tenerlo, yo nada mas traia en ingles pero le dijimos que cuando viera a los Testigos en cualquier lugar en espanol les preguntara x un libro Ensena.

Por la tarde, tuvimos reunion a las 6 pm. Art tuvo los Puntos Sobresalientes y tambien el privilegio de conducir una parte de 15 min.de la Reunion de Servicio -pues el hno que le tocaba se enfermo y le pidio si la podia dar-, la semana entrante le dieron el privilegio de conducir Estudio del Libro de nuevo. En mi caso me dio mucho gusto que despues de 10 meses de no dar una parte, gracias a Jh por fin!!! Me toco el discurso de "Es Dios Insensible y No le Interesamos?" y lo mejor de todo! Recuerdan a la jovencita que visitamos ayer? Pues vino solita hoy a la reunion!!!!!!!! Nos dio la sorpresa y nos dio muchooooooooo gusto, me dijo que solo podia quedarse uno tiempito -como que alguien la estaba esperando- pero pudo escuchar los Puntos Sobresalientes de Art, mi discurso, y el discurso del Alma no es Inmortal. Me pregunto si siempre habia reunion, le dije que todos los miercoles y domingos en ingles, la visitaremos de nuevo el viernes, primero Jehova. Estos fueron nuestros dos dias, martes y miercoles. Ahi pongannos un comentario si pueden.

2 comments:

  1. Such fine experiences. It is really encouraging especiall when those u find in the field actually come to the Kingdon Hall. That is wonderful. I hope to meet Karla.

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  2. Thank you for sharing your wonderful experiences with us. Sounds like you guys are having a great time. We are enjoying the pictures and experiences. It would be wonderful to serve Jehovah in such a way.

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