Busy In The Ministry

We've now been serving in Bolivia for 3 1/2 months and are loving every minute of it. On a daily basis we have wonderful experiences in field service and now that we have a moped we're able to follow up on interest better than before. We have anywhere from 20-30 people out each day for service during the week and even more on the weekends.

I also had the privilege of attending KM school this month and even had a little skit with another brother.

Because of the large amount of interest in our territory and the frequency in which we cover it, Stephanie and I are now moving toward a more direct approach in offering Bible Studies on the first visit, so far it's working great!

We have a lot coming up this next month with our 4 year anniversary being Feb 3rd as well as our friends who are serving as Missionaries in Potosi (Their photo is in the Feb WT) coming to visit us after the Branch Zone Visit. We also have our Circuit Assembly later in Feb.

We've been trying to take more photos lately of service so below we've posted a few with little descriptions.

That's all for now, drop us a note, we'd love to hear from you!

Steph snuck this picture of me preparing the group

We found a "hearing ear"

Preaching at a house in the country

Field and lone tree

Taking a break in the shade with everyone's favorite juice here "Karpil"

Friends and Fun

This past Tuesday and Wednesday we enjoyed time with some friends of ours at a cabin near here. On Tuesday morning the guys, Justin, Bob, Bob Golden, and Russell went to the golf course. We, Me, Janice, Reenie, Kathy, Janice, Daniel, and Judith, got everything ready to go to the cabin. We had so much stuff we could not all go in one vehicle. So Daniel, Judith and I went on a bus up to Victoria, a town just outside of Tarija. We had to walk a little ways to get to our destination, but the rain started so we took cover under an abandoned house across from the highly decorated cemetery. After a little bit Reenie came to our rescue and picked us up. When we arrived at the cabin there was a lot of confusion as usual. No matter how sure you think your reservations are they are never what you think. We had reserved two cabins next to each other, but someone came in the night and needed one so they gave it to them. After some time they decided to give us the two together on the bottom area away from everyone. Which I liked much better the only thing was they lacked hammocks. We enjoyed our time there with our friends eating good food and having great company. Justin and I loved to hear the stories about Bethel, the circuit work and the ministry. We left on Wednesday afternoon so we could make our meeting. Well that is all for now. Just service as usual. But we did have some terrible thunderstorms on Thursday. I have never in my life heard such loud thunder. It actually made me jump. Our electricity went out 3 times for about a total of 2-3 hours. It was early in the morning so we slept through the power outage, which was nice. Hope everyone is well. Ciao for now.

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Service Day

Today was service as regular. On a Bible Study I found a friend.

From a Donkey to French Cooking

Yesterday when we were coming home from service we found a mama and baby donkey outside our house eating grass. Early we saw the baby donkey sleeping on its side and we thought it was dead the way it was sleeping, thank goodness it was not. Then today after service we went to a French-style restaurant for lunch with some friends from Cochabamba and the Marsdens. It was sooooo good. We are so suffering here. LOL Well here are some pics. Oh and I finally have a few pics of the market where I buy my food. Here is the link for all the pics, there are a lot so I couldn't add all the albums on here.
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