Presenting the one...the only...head skate guard at Roll on America!!!

...Makin' a huge honkin' snowball out of this blog....

It's Ian!!!!

Yes, I vow to keep this blog going in snowball format. I'm here in prison, as you can see the dreary surrounding from which I type. I spend most of my moments here gazing straight into a lightbox that is designed to slowly and deliberately fray all of my neurons until the synapses can longer fire, and then my head will blow off. But, despite all this, we, as humans, gravitate toward the lightbox because it is the only source of light nearby. Natural light is a privilege for those with large belts and refillable coffee mugs/jugs glued to their right palm. They have grown to love the lightbox.

Enough craziness.

I'm glad that everybody has gotten back on the blog.

Evan & Sabine: I'm glad you guys are just starting to get back into your routine and I'm very happy that Sabine's pioneering is working out well. It stinks we couldn't see your talk, but I have every confidence that you did an excellent job and that it was very encouraging for the friends. We will keep in touch as much as possible. We miss you guys too. We have a great time during your visit.

Ma: It's nice to hear from you too. I miss you. I'm happy to hear that you were able to do some service by writing letters. I wrote a letter too on Saturday morning to start my time. Definitely keep it up! Jehovah will bless your efforts!!! We should set a date to have you guys over for dinner. I LOVE TO COOK!!!

Pa: You're the only one left not back on the blog! "Yoo khan dooh eet!" Come on! Join in the fun! Oh and you need to call me when you close the pool!!! That filter is heavy!!! You stink cuz you got to go the last YANKEES GAME OF THE SEASON!!! IT must have rocked cuz they won! Sheri and I have yet to see a Red Sox game together where they win. Tell us all about it!!

Gina: It was nice to talk to you yesterday and catch up a little. We miss you and Sam too. We'd love to see more pictures. She was talking so much yesterday. Does she walk yet? I'm glad to hear that you are so excited about putting Jehovah first. It's such a great feeling to know that you're making Jehovah happy, isn't it? Keep that feeling.

Sheri: I'll see you when I get home. Oh, and I'm pregnant.

Ian: Remember to do your daily Bible reading in a British accent because American accents suck. Oh, oops...I should have just kept that to myself.

So what's new with me? Sheri hit on some good points about Portuguese. We had a great talk by a brother from NJ only in Portuguese for 2 years but excellent at the language. He was about my age, I think. He gave an excellent talk in English, as well, that Sheri mentioned about our spiritual height.

I got a new study. He's coming into the truth on his own. He already studied the Require brochure in Brazil but he insists on going through it again and then to another book. He's got scriptures memorized and he really has an appreciation for spiritual things. I wouldn't be surprise if he got baptized within a year.

Well, I've posted quite a bit, although I could keep going. But I'll leave it at this and practice some self-control.

I love you all Ma, Pa, Gina, Evan, Sabine and Sheri...With a special love.

-Ian

We're baaack...

I'm glad you got things rolling again everyone. I check the blog every once in a while, but I can never bring myself to be the first one to start...I think its a deep-seated fear of rejection. Like, if I blog, and no one responds, I just can't handle that rejection...just kidding, really its just laziness.

Its so great to hear about how well everyone is doing. It makes me so happy. I wish we all could've heard Sabine's talk, I'm sure it was excellent.

Gina, you should post more pictures of Sam...I know you guys are wicked busy, and we totally miss seeing you more often. We'll get together soon, I know.

Its been such a busy busy summer, with no slowing down in sight. Ian is auxilliary pioneering this month, so its sure to be jam packed too, but in a good way. Things are going great in Portuguese. The studies keep coming, and it seems like ever so slowly we're getting some new recruits to join us. Our average attendance at the Saturday meeting has been around 45 I'd say, which is not bad, considering there were some months before that it was only like 30 or so. I'm always amazed at the fact that we always have a different speaker for the public talk. You would think, since its a foreign language there wouldn't be enough brothers to go around, but we've only had a couple of repeats and most of the time that was a last minute fill-in. We've had brothers from all over though, so that's nice. We had a bethel speaker last week from a New Jersey congregation and he gave the public talk in Portuguese and then a special talk after an abbreviated Watchtower, in English. It was great it was entitled "How Tall Are You?" (O que e sua altura?) It was great.

I want to hear all about the game yesterday Rick...it must've been totally awesome!

That's great that you were able to do some letter-writing Leanne, keep up the good work!

Keep the momentum alive...keep blogging!

Love,
Sheri