The Weekend
So, now that I've got that out of my system...
We had a great weekend. We actually got some pictures of our school--we'll probably post them tonight. I'm sure you'll recognize some of the people.
Saturday afternoon I followed up on a Brazilian man's address that Sheri gave me who she found in early morning parking lot witnessing back in the end of January. Well, I found him and two other men that lived there. After thinking about for a few minutes, he said he remembered her--he thought she was "Japonais". Tim DiMase (we call him DeMais, it means "too much" in Portuguese, which he is) explained that she was "Koreana". Anyway, they served us some of their traditionally wicked sweet Brazilian coffee and put something in front of us that was deep-fried. I tried it and it was mildly sweet, which is what most Brazilian desserts are.
Well, the good part. After asking them which part of Brazil they were from and telling them that we learned some Brazilian geography in class, I explained the purpose of the require brochure and that we offer home Bible studies for free. Well, they each accepted a brochure for themselves, and each accepted a study! One of them in particular said to me in English, "Next week?" as in 'You're coming back next week, right?' Three studies started, all at once!
I was also able to have a third study with another two Brazilian men that also live together. We explained the Memorial, but it has been difficult to invite people because the closest Portuguese Memorial is in Ashland. I have high hopes, that next year they will be holding a celebration in Worcester. Then we'll have to rent a bus to take the interested ones! No joke! (Well, maybe a Club Wagon.) There is a couple from our group that have to take two cars to bring all of their students/interested ones!
Sheri and I have both seen such good results in the ministry since we started the class. Jehovah is surely blessing us and we are so thankful for that.
We had a great weekend. We actually got some pictures of our school--we'll probably post them tonight. I'm sure you'll recognize some of the people.
Saturday afternoon I followed up on a Brazilian man's address that Sheri gave me who she found in early morning parking lot witnessing back in the end of January. Well, I found him and two other men that lived there. After thinking about for a few minutes, he said he remembered her--he thought she was "Japonais". Tim DiMase (we call him DeMais, it means "too much" in Portuguese, which he is) explained that she was "Koreana". Anyway, they served us some of their traditionally wicked sweet Brazilian coffee and put something in front of us that was deep-fried. I tried it and it was mildly sweet, which is what most Brazilian desserts are.
Well, the good part. After asking them which part of Brazil they were from and telling them that we learned some Brazilian geography in class, I explained the purpose of the require brochure and that we offer home Bible studies for free. Well, they each accepted a brochure for themselves, and each accepted a study! One of them in particular said to me in English, "Next week?" as in 'You're coming back next week, right?' Three studies started, all at once!
I was also able to have a third study with another two Brazilian men that also live together. We explained the Memorial, but it has been difficult to invite people because the closest Portuguese Memorial is in Ashland. I have high hopes, that next year they will be holding a celebration in Worcester. Then we'll have to rent a bus to take the interested ones! No joke! (Well, maybe a Club Wagon.) There is a couple from our group that have to take two cars to bring all of their students/interested ones!
Sheri and I have both seen such good results in the ministry since we started the class. Jehovah is surely blessing us and we are so thankful for that.
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