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!
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!
posted by Sheri Rossi at 1:58 PM
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That was waaaaaaaaaaaaayy too loooooooong... I liked it sheri, good job!
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