Don't Ya love The Pope?

We don't like the pope!! I just call this post that because I wanna tell ya about the picture!! Auntie Dave sent it to my dad. (We use to call him that when we were little!!!)

 

 

Attention All Poopy Heads

Hey this really stinks to high heaven. It seems that the blog has really picked up again and all I'm stuck doing is picking my nose cause i've got no internet, Man! I miss it. I used to love to blog. I'm happy to hear you are all doing well and it's nice to have our newest addition Tony. Welcome, your blogs have been quite funny.
Sammy is getting so big so fast. Evan and Sabine I can't wait for you to see her. I wish that there was some way to send you a video of her but we haven't figured out how. I took her to the Ecotarium last Sat. and we had a good time. We are already planning to go camping come May or June probably with John and Tiffany Laselle and I'll probably take Aly with me, she dying to get outdoors and go camping. Mom and Pop are getting very excited about there trip to Paris, I'm sure you guys can't wait to see them. i wish I could be there to give you both hugs. maybe I'll tear off both my arms and send them in mom's carry on so I can at least hug you even though it may be a little awkward I would sacrifice my limbs for a few moments with my loved ones. (mmmm...that was truly disturbing,but typical of me.) Well poopy heads wish me well on getting back some form of communication with the blogger world, i miss it so. But till then write some cool stuff so that when I get a chance to pop on i can enjoy some words from all of you. I love you all. With love, Truly Gina xoxoxoxox

Wow

Wow. Everyone is really good at blogging! Well, Ian I just added a new review so please post a new review. Well anyway, today at school during snack, everyone was talking. And she said I was yelling when I was talking normally to my friend Tyler.

She kept on saying not to yell even though
I didn't! She said tyler was WAAYY over there. But no, he was only 3 feet away from me. (diagnally) Well, let me tell some good news!

I am bringing my video now to aftercare
so I can prove to my dad I am responsible enough so I can bring my DS! Now THAT is stinkin awesome!!!

My First Story

Well, have any of you visited my blog? If so tell me!
Ok, well one day, on the bus...... i can't think of a funny storie.... sorry!
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Hey Peoples!

Hey peoples!
This is Tony. Ian just sent me an invitation to join you guys!

I will look forward to posting with you guys!

Oh, and visit my blog!
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Trying to keep up

Hey everybody. All of a sudden I looked at the blog and noticed everyone has been doing really well with blogging...except me. So I figured I'd add my two cents also.

Its so great to hear about everyone's encouraging experiences in the ministry. Reading about how difficult it is for you guys (Ev and Sabine) in the winter time with the cold and no cars, I realized how spoiled I'm getting. I was just complaining to Ian about how I'm sick of going on everyone's calls and studies. I suppose things could be worse, huh? I mean its great that so many people have great calls, but its like all we do is their studies, and then the rest of the car group is just sitting and waiting, and we don't get to do territory. But I suppose if it were the other way around in English, I'd be begging for people to come up with calls to do so we didn't have to go out in the cold. So I guess I am glad we have warm houses to go to. Plus its great that so many people have such progressive calls and studies. I have one study in particular that is so right on with learning new information and getting the sense of things. We're on lesson 10 in the Require brochure. She only studies Thursday mornings at 9am for about 10 minutes. But we pack a lot in, in those few minutes. Today we were going through the paragraphs about practices god hates, in paragraps 4 and 5 about violence and spiritism. She totally applied the scripture in Deuteronomy to modern times with the fortune tellers and palm readers that people go to today. It was great. I just need to get her to the meetings. I can't wait til we're done with the brochure, so I can move her to the new book. I'm planning on moving all of my studies to the new book. I just feel like I should finish the Require brochure with them first. But my other study with an older woman named Zeilah, I also moved into the new book. She doesn't really make a lot of progress as far as going to meetings or anything, but she really enjoys the encouragement from the scriptures. When I was there last week, she asked me if we had any like healers and people that could say some prayers for her. She has a problem in both her knees, and she's in a lot of pain most of the time. I tried to tactfully tell her that we didn't do that sort of thing, but that she could pray to Jehovah herself and draw closer to him to get comfort by continuing with her study. She seemed Ok with that. So hopefully she won't ask again about faith healers.

Its funny, Sabine, that you're thinking of changing your work schedule, because I am too. It is soooo busy at work right now, and right now I go in all day Monday, and then Tuesday-Thursday afternoons. I think that I can't really get as much accomplished there when I'm only there for half the day, and I really miss being able to stay out all day in services, so I'm going to try to work 2 full days on Monday and Wednesday and then one half day on Thursday. This way I can go out in service all day Tuesday and Friday plus Thursday morning. Or I can use Thursday morning as my day to clean and study for the meetings. I find that I really need to have at least a couple hours during one morning a week to pick up and clean the apartment and catch up on my studying. So it should work out well. I just have to talk to my boss about it. But right now, he's so thrilled with what I'm doing for him, I think he'd let me do whatever I want, as long as I get the work done.

I'm really happy to hear everyone's good experiences and to see that everyone is staying active in Jehovah's service. Its great that we can have such an upbuilding and encouraging family to share things with.

I'll try to post some pictures of stuff soon, and everyone else can do likewise. I really want to see your apartment, Evan and Sabine. I hope we can see it in person next month too. I miss seeing the pictures of Gina and Sam too. Maybe I can get some pictures from Gina to post. I can't believe how much Sam is talking now. She's like a little sponge the way she picks up on things too. Last week we were sitting on the couch, and she was pointing to my ears and mouth and eyes, and I pointed to her nose and I said "honk, honk" and she laughed, and did it to me, then she did it to Ian and then to Gina. Of course then she didn't stop saying it for a while, but it was so incredibly cute. Except when she was saying it it came out more like "konk, konk." Which, of course, made it even cuter. I'll have to send you the short video I took of her playing Ian's piano a couple of months ago. She pressed one of the demo buttons and it started playing this classical piece, and she smiled and looked all proud, like she was playing it herself. I wonder if we can post videos? Maybe I could e-mail it to everyone instead.

Keep up the blogging everyone!

Spiritual Activity is THE BOMB

Yeah, that's a great experience Sabine. Thanks for sharing it. It's important that we share these "reports" with each other just like the apostles did in the first days of the ministry.

It certainly is a joy and privilege to discover ones that are searching for the truth and then to help them find answers is truly rewarding. We have to remember to stay on top of those ones even thought they may slow down in their study or get discouraged and stop for some time. Perseverance is key. That's my mantra right now.

I haven't shared the recent experiences I've had in the hall. I'm still conducting 4 fairly regular (they miss a week every once in a while) Bible studies and "one" of them is with 2-4 guys depending on who is there when I go on Sunday at 11am.

Carlos had been studying in the Require brochure for some time and he got a new job and then stopped. I was pretty dicouraged about it. But about 1 month and a half later, he showed up at the Kingdom Hall and we've since resumed his study. His job did change, and that's why, but I hope by the time he finds another new job, he'll appreciate the importance of staying regular. But he is a very good student and motivated, and has a strong love for the truth. Carlos brought a friend, Marcos, with him last Saturday and he said he enjoyed the meeting. A gave him a Bible Teach book and he said he would like to sit in on Carlos' study.

João used to study with Wayne Berry and Stephanie asked me to conduct it after he died. He is very serious about the truth. He has been coming to ALL of the meetings each week, including the School and Service Meeting, of which only a portion of the School is in Portuguese. He is trying apply Bible principles with his teenage children. And his life circumstances are difficult because he was divorced in recent years and struggles with raising his children properly. He wants to teach them the truth, but it seems as though they have no interest. I hope he continues to make progress.

There are so many Portuguese-speaking people that are expressing interest in the truth in Worcester. There are many studies to be conducted by there aren't enough people to conduct them all and follow up on all the interest. And that's just in Worcester! The territory is really much larger. It goes all the way out to Springfield.

It's nice to know that everybody in our family is active in the ministry. We can encourage each other, and amongst all of us, we should be able to share a lot of experiences!

Evan, I just read your blog about your student that is having a hard time and it was really funny. I'm thinking about going home and 'making the cook and doing the eat' myself. :)


Maybe I'll just make out with the cook. :)

Love you guys.