While in the "Predi" (Ministry) about 3 weeks ago. The brother in the last blog photo "Isreal" and I are working a very fruitful block of the territory. We knock on a window and 2 little girls come to answer and finally a third joins us. We are making small talk with them while their mom comes to talk to us. I am using the "Who really rules the World" tract and having a wonderful discussion with all the girls (mom included). Mom dosn't get the sence of the scripture in 1 John 5:19 when I ask them "So who does the bible say really rules the world" but the girls all cry out in unison, "the Devil"? Big smile on my face (very cute) when they all answered like that. Then I shared with them 2 Cor. 4:4 and after identifying who the God of this system is, asked them what is the "Glorious Good News" that Paul wrote about. Setting up the question for our next discussion. The following week I return and no one is home, (of course ... Yes we have the same problem here) But there is a group of kids, small ones that come running from across the street when they see us ... in this group are the 3 little girls explaining that "Mom is at school enrolling them" The littlest one grabs my arm as if to say you can't leave so I decide to share something about the kingdom with all the little ones. (New World Tract) and we have a very nice discussion, scriptures and questions, answers ... etc. using the tract. I ask the girls we had spoken to to let there mom know she missed "her appointment" (just kidding) and that we would return. Carol and I did the next day ... offered the bible study and "Veronica" accepted. But asked if we could make a fixed time so she could be ready with her girls, I affectionately named "Las Gringitas" because the all have english names. (They always laugh when I call them that) So when we come back for the study they are all ready and invite us in. During the conversation Veronica tells us, that she had studied a little while with the Witnesses, but had not been to meetings due to family pressure, and when the sister died that she studied with, she lost contact with the Witnesses. Veronica also mentioned that she had studied from a "Brown Book" (Knowledge) and enjoyed what she was learning ... when she lost contact with the truth. So we are happy to be able to start studying with her again, as she had not studied for very long in the past with the sister that passed away.
Also you remember "Angel", The guy who showed up at the meeting who I thought was a street person? We studied yesterday ... well we tried to study yesterday, actually he had some questions about "Mary the mother of God" and why we don't give her the adoration she deserves ... these as it turns out, were the words of his neighbor, who was trying to discourage him from studying with the Witnesses. After using 4 scriptures and reasoning on them, he said "This is why I like studying with the Witnesses, you guys show everything from the bible". He said was going to share the scriptures with the neighbor. We will pick up where we left off in the "Bible teach book" next study.
Carol has a Return Visit, now study, with a woman named "Anna" we went yesterday and she told us that she found work, and that she told the woman she was working for, that she could not work on Tuesday between 3-4 in the afternoon, because she is taking bible study classes with JW's ... (the last time we spoke, last week, she was very depressed, and had no work, we read a few scriptures and reasoned with her on Matt 6 to put the Kingdom first and all other things would be added to her, including some sort of work) The woman she works for, told Anna that "she is Catholic and should not be talking to those people" ... never the less she was ready for the study, well dressed and had her books ready. (she had studied in the recent past in anther part of the city, but had moved into our territory, some brothers made the original call and then turned it over to Carol that same morning) Well, I am conducting the study, and Anna is on another planet, and about the time I am going to ask her if there is something else on her mind, she says she doesn't understand, what we are doing using the book ... we assumed she did, as she had studied in the recent past, but had only studied the 1st chapter. So we showed her how the study is conducted using the Bible Teach Book and how she should prepare for the study. She then with a big smile on her face, said she looked forward to our next study, and would be prepared! Lesson learned? Don't assume anything ... (But I though I learned that lesson with Angel ... I guess I am a slow learner!)
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