Thursday, August 25, 2011

Well the last post that was made was about 4 months ago, and a lot has been happening since then. Unfortunately I am awful at keeping the blog updated with information so I apologize for that, this will be another last post for at least another 3 months as I have once again returned to the states for a visit.


Some exciting news that happened was some seriously unassigned territory was done in May/June which I had the great privilege of participating in. It was preaching work to all the Cayes on the coast of Belize, and just off the coast of Placencia is where the majority of these Cayes were. Many of the Cayes have only a few people on them, for example somebody may own their own island whether a local or a foreigner and they usually have somebody living on it to watch over the caye. Our experiences were plenty, almost everybody we talked to we had a Bible Study with and encouraged them to continue to study their Bible Teach book after we would leave since we would not be able to regularly call on them, we also encouraged them to find us whenever they are on the mainland to receive more encouragement and literature, many we talked to of course offered hospitality which included places to stay (that way we didnt have to sleep on the boat), food, drinks, and even lobster! Of course not only were we fishing for men but also for dinner as well!




At the Sunday meetings we have still been getting around the 50-55 range which is great considering that this is the slow season. There is about 20-25 publishers in the group now so that taken into consideration about half of the ones at meetings are not baptized yet. One of the studies just became an unbaptized publisher and joined the school, his name is Gabriel and has been doing great! This last weekend we had our district convention where we had 3 from our group baptized, Rodger Arden, Siripohn Arden, and Stephanie Ojeda, this made the district convention that much more enjoyable.
I hope you enjoyed the update and a couple of experiences from this Blog, continue with the preaching work without let up - Matt 24:14.



The 1st picture is what a caye might look like, it could be very small with just one person living on it.

The 2nd picture is a brother catching his dinner while traveling from one Caye to the next.

The 3rd picture is Gabriel with his wife Stephanie who was just baptized.

The 4th Picture is of Rodger and Siripohn Ardne who were baptized at this last weeks district convention

This is the boat called "The Witness" we used this as our main boat which is owned by a brother, Gino Leslie, if we did not have hospitality by one of the persons on the Cayes then we would stay the night on "The Witness"

This was a smaller dingy which we used to get us on to the Cayes.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011




There has been many wonderful blessings in the Placencia group in the last 3 months. I apologize for not updating the blog more regularly, but I will try my best to do so in the future. I figured I would update everyone about the happenings in the congregation. We have had many visitors from all around the world come down to help with the preaching work and as a result we have been getting 70-80 at the meetings on Sunday with the highest attendance of about 90. There has also been 3 more unbaptized publishers and 4 new ones join the school, Rodger and Siripohn, Alan, and Stephanie. We also just had our Circuit Assembly where Gino and Olga Leslie were baptized. The progress in the group is a clear sign that Jehovah is blessing the group and the help that all the visiting need greaters provided has helped the group immensely. Thats the happenings in the congregation and here is a quick experience from the field ministry.



"Gino and myself have been studying with a man named Anton. Anton is one of Ginos nephews and has never studied before. When Gino and myself first came to Anton to give him his Bible Teach book he thanked us and asked for us to return to study to book with him. When we returned next week we were shocked to see that Anton had pre-studied all the way to chapter 8 of the Bible Teach book with all his answers underlined. We then began to go over the first chapter of the Bible Teach book where he learned the correct name of Jehovah and his name in Hebrew YHWH, which he explained that he never knew that and truly appreciated that bible teaching. When we returned the following week Anton was building a new porch with steps leading down to a concrete slab, it was very touching to see that in the concrete slab was the name YHWH written in concrete for everyone to see. Anton has been really enjoying his studies and continues to tell us not to worry he will not give up on learning more about Jehovah. "

Rodger on the left with his wife Siripohn on the right.


Meetings have been very popular where the brothers have to stand in the back because of lack of seats.

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