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!!!

Hello all! and Welcome Tony!

Good to have you blogging with us!

Coots, so sorry you are sick! no fun.. and sorry you have so much paperwork to fill out. I think our lives are filled with tooooo much of it! We all have no patience for it anymore, I think anyway.

Sheri and Sabine, I hope you both will be able to arrange your work hours to the best for you.

Yesterday, Sammy called me on the phone. I could hear, Grammy? Grammy? on the answering machine. I was in my new office cleaning up and by the time I picked up, she had gone away because I didn't answer her right away. Gina gave her the phone, but it was like, nope.. too late...doe wanna talk now. But I went over and visited for a while and we had a lovely time. I just love that little Cooter so much!!

Can't wait to see you both, Evvie and Sabine! By the way, I don't know if you know yet, but I am retired...for the time being. Then, I'll probably go on to something else...I have some ideas. But thankfully, I am done with transcription. Seven and a half years is enough! Too much sitting and too much with the foot pedal. I think it will be a while before I recover from it. I' m doing a little bit at a time to finish my office. Painting a part of the woodwork, then resting, filling spaces in along the baseboards, then resting, etc. Pop went to Home Depot today and bought the lumber to build the bookcases that will go on either side of the closet in my office. It's going to be nice when it's done.

Bye for now :)

Kisses to everyone!!

love, Mumski x0xoxoxooxox

Latest stuff

Hey fam,

I feel like I've been fighting a virus for over a week. I've been religiously taking vitamin C every day hoping that I could build up my immune system, but to no avail. I am now sick. So, I canceled my class today in order to find time to rest up so that I can reach my hours for February.

It wasn't really a restful day though, because we've recently found out that we have to renew Sabine's grandma's retirement plan and guess what.........YOU NEED LIKE 5 MILLION PAPERS THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND OR OBTAIN!!!! I spent an hour in our basement (or "cave" as we call it) looking for her resident card. It was like looking for a needle in a hay stack. Plus I had like a pound of dust up my nose along with all kinds of creepy crawly things.(Aaahhhh...these are but only the suits are trappings of life in bureaucratic France)They arrange things purposefully so that it's hopeless and impossible to make any deadline. Anyway, we know Satan's throwing things our way because we just started pioneering together but we're determined not to get discouraged by those things.

On a more positive note, Sabine had a great study with her lady from Sri Lanka. It lasted 2 hours! She was really well prepared and remembered everything from the previous study. Also, she told Sabine that she wants to read the Bible regularly with a schedule so we're going to give her some different ideas for that.

It's really wonderful to see the fruits of our labor in the ministry. All of you too, keep up the good work and please keep sharing your experiences. Trust me........we really need them!

Love you all!

Ev

P.S. Can't wait for you guys to come Ma and Pa. We're getting the place ready for you!!!

and, thanks for the good website links Tony!

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.

My first blog

Hey Family,

I need to put my two cents in since it's been some time that I haven't written something for all to read.

Things are going well since I started pioneering. It seemed like forever when I was waiting for my circumstances to allow me to start up again, but now that I'm doing it again, it feels like I never stopped at all. But, this time around I have a real fresh outlook on service since I'm in a completely different country and field.

So far, I don't have any studies, but I'm really trying to get some progressive return visits that will turn into studies. I'm happy that Sabine has a study because I can sometimes go with her and it's really nice to see someone so interested in learning. Either way, I defintely feel more outgoing with people that I meet in the street than I did when I first got here. Especially with foreigners. They are usually very easy to talk to. I just recently talked to a guy from Bangladesh and I promised to mail him some mags in Bengali. We'll see what happens there.

Besides that, it's stinkin freezing here which is making service a bit difficult at times, but we're trying to be creative to counterbalance things.

One last thing that you might find a bit funny is that I have a complete beginner student who I'm convinced has been brainwashed to make certain mistakes OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!! He's incapable of talking about himself or expressing his feelings with the verb "to be". He's programmed to say, "there is, there is" FOR EVERYTHING!! For example, "there is no comprend" (translation, I don't understand), "there is an afraid for the me" (I'm afraid) "there is an obligation" (I have to). I'VE DONE EVERYTHING POSSIBLE AND NOTHING IS WORKING!!! Oh well, I must go on because it's my job.

Guess what he likes to do at night when he gets home from work. In his own words, "I make the cook and I do the eat".

Hope you all had a laugh....

Love,

Ev

hi everybody! It s very encouraging what you are doing Leanne in service, it s really good way to reach people i think, I wish we ll do this kind of service too, it s always good to bring some hope to the people who lost someone. it s very good, and very encouraging too Lanne. I am meating a sister this afternoon and i ll do my study who is from Sri lanka, it ll be the 3rd time i study with her so i actually can count that one. It s so nice to be able to go and do a study espacially in the cold weather too. I am hoping and praying that she ll continue to progress, because she is a very interresting person. Will see! I am trying to reorganise my time for service because i realized that i am running all over the place everyday with the schedule i used to do and then when i have free time i am so dead to organised the appartment, so now with this new schedule i feel more all together! hopefully it ll stay that way! Tomorrow we are going to IKEA! yes my favorite store, we will get different idoms for the kitchen and bed sets too, many little things that you forget to buy but where there are very necessaries. so i am very excited about it, feels like chrismas!!!!! Leanne that would be great if you could gie me the spinach deep recepie i love this and evan too, so i like to make it for him sometimes. Since i have my pionneers school this summer, i was thinking that i could do it in oxford, nothing sure about it because we have to talk to the helders, but if it s possible for me to do it in the US that would be great so i keep you guys post it! Anyways i have to go and don't forget to blog ok it s important to keep in touch!!!!! (it s me who say that, the one who takes forever to respond!!!!!!hihihihihih) anyway i had to say it! bye bye to everyone love Sabine

Buongiorno!!

Hi everyone!

It's great to hear everyone's experiences in the field ministry and with studies. Pop is really trying with Ray, but eventually may have to leave him in Jehovah's hands due to his mental difficulties. He is up and down emotionally minute to minute and it is very difficult to keep him on track. He really loves Jehovah, but he can't seem to keep up with meetings and is very easily influenced by others.

When I write to people who have lost a loved one in death, I go to the Worcester Public Library website first, type in my library card number, and go to the Telegram & Gazette section back to 1989. I go back a year and look for people who have died. I look at the relatives they left, such as a wife or son, etc, and if I can find that person's address on the internet, I write to them. The reason I do not use the recent obituaries in the paper is that I feel it is too fresh, people are in a numb state when someone close dies, and they cannot concentrate or really think about what we are trying to tell them at that time. They're not ready for it. Maybe some would be, but the majority would probably put the letter aside and it might be lost or thrown out. When I write to them, I tell them I was looking at issues of the newspaper on the library's website and noticed that they lost their relative a year ago and how they must miss them and go on from there, encouraging them and quoting helpful scriptures. I just wrote to a Mr. Orsini who lost his Dad at 91 one year ago Jan. 29, 2005. Anyway, I thought I would give this approach a try and see if it is more fruitful. I give my name but the return address of the Kingdom Hall.

I'm glad you liked those recipes. Time to think of what to cook tonight. Sheri and Ian are coming over to finish painting my office. I'm making hot spinach/artichoke/cheese dip with toasted pita triangles first, then maybe a soup.

I can't wait to get into the new office as my feet are frozen as I type here on the front porch. I just finished working. My office has been out here for about four winters now, and that's long enough!!

Hey Sabine, have fun at the office this week. Party time, eh??

Love to you all XOXOXOXOXOOXOXOXO

Ciao :)

Mamma