Weeks gone by

Goodness,
I'm so sorry this has been a long time coming this month.
It has been a busy month mostly in the ministry. I've been trying to get special pioneer hours. So far it's going well, I'm almost there!
It has been a busy month with the tract work I think our congregation covered all of our territory or pretty close to it. We had 206 people at our memorial last night! More then a few people came because of the work we did it's so exciting to see the people respond.

I have been reading, mostly Psalms, in Shona at the studies on Mondays! The sister asked me to say a closing prayer I froze and then said the ten words I knew.. Hahah The study really thought it was nice that I tried. I'm working on learning a few key points from the prayers said in the scriptures. We shall see. 🙃

I am half way through my trip oddly enough, I had a bit of an issue with my visa this time but at the last minute was able to  get it renewed for another month... By the skin of my teeth. The time is flying which means I am having a good time despite living in this system. It's turning cold now, winter is coming early this year. The rains were late causing the maze to be late and many of the rural villages are without sadza. We are asked to donate if we are able to help the friends out in that area, and they were asked to sell their livestock if they had any left. Livestock are the way many areas show their place in society, so many are hesitant to sell them off.

But over all nothing really to report. I'm doing well staying busy with, early witnessing, letter writing,  evening witnessing and starting not at homes. (New idea to take not at homes). I'm thinking of taking a holiday here soon, I'll keep you updated. 👙😍

Bethel Second Round

We took another trip to Bethel this year again, it always nice to see what changes have been made in the last year. 

The family has been shaved down so much so that they now only use the dinner room for family worship Monday evenings. The family makes their own breakfast, dinner and cleans their own rooms. Such a change. I asked the brother who gave us the tour if he had lost any weight just yet cause of his cooking, lol. A friend of ours happened to be our guide, Mike Dube, he is in the Ndebele congregation in the city here. His assignment here is on the tech team for the JW.org and Bethelites computers. The team help set up new accounts for newly formed congregations he said they handle about 4 a month! They still need many halls to be built and updated but they work hard and quickly the number hasn’t changed from the last time so I am not sure how many more they need.

The translation teams have been very busy at work this last year. Around this time last year they only had a few books recorded in Shona now if you look all most every watchtower and awake is released along with the English versions. It helps to learn to say the sounds when I can listen a million times to the same page in order to read on the rurals. I tend to read very slowly so at times the meaning is lost.. oops.. haha  I bring up that we need the Shona added to the lang app every time I go to visit Bethel on Saturdays to hang out with a couple. 

Ending new numbers as such from exactly one year ago: 4 New circuits , 87 new congregations or groups, 833 new regular pioneers and 2295 new publishers.