June 17--First Meeting of Guam Ponapean Group

John conducted the Congregation Bible Study. We're following the same schedule that the Pohnpei congregation is using. This week we began Chapter 4, 'Why Respect Authority' in the God's Love book. We sang Song 12, prayed, studied the lesson, then joined the rest of the congregation for the Theocratic Ministry School and Service Meeting. 

We all participated in the study. As you can see, we're all pretty excited!!

What a fun night--one that none of us will soon forget!

First Saturday of June

First Saturday of the month

Goal--start studies

Goal--accomplished x 7!!

Then we all got together this evening to eat pizza and practice the song for the first meeting June 17. 

And then there was the second meeting for service!

Two language learners together equals very patient householders!

While we were looking for one lady, that we never found, we found a new (to us) family from Pohnpei. They are from Kolonia. To give directions to where they used to live, they started with. "We lived near the Jehovah's Witness church." At one point in the conversation, Sylvia said, "I think it's because of (and pointed to heaven) that you and I are here together. I don't live here. I just came to see my mom." She then told us where she lived and took this month's Watchtower and May's and April's. 

Two weeks ago, while looking for another sister's return visit, we located a student that had moved. At the same door, I noticed another lady. She looked very familiar. I asked if I looked familiar to her. She said that we met each other in Pohnpei. (for about 10 minutes) This is her from a year ago. I had taken photos of her son living here in Guam to her. We also gave her the Great Teacher and Bible Teach books in Ponapean. Now the whole family is here in Guam, including the little one she is pregnant with in this photo. We have studied twice now. This is who Mandy read her first scripture with! 

There was a lady visiting her when we came. She joined the study and told us she'd been to a meeting at the Kingdom Hall before. She made sure we knew where she lived.

And finally, we found Senda. She studied years ago with Mandy's mom, Kym. She told us that she just couldn't believe that Kym was as nice as she seemed. Then, over time, she knew that she was. She's not working now and will be studying next Tuesday. Thanks, Kym!

June 2--First Meeting for Service

Today, we had our first meeting for field service for the Ponapean language group!!

What a day!

We started new studies and found people that had studied in the past in English, even attending meetings at the Kingdom Hall. They want to study in their own language now and are excited to know their will be a meeting every week in their language. For example, in the evening, John and I went to see a man that I met briefly two weeks ago. He invited us in. Then his nephew, his nephew's wife and their daughter joined our discussion. The wife said, "This is from the church in Barrigada, right?" Yes. "I went before" and named the sister she'd been with. She was thrilled to read in her own language and wants to attend the first meeting in Ponapean.

Sometimes, we're looking for someone and find another interested person along the way. That's how we met Agnes. This very nice lady and her lively little boy are moving to the States next week. They were supposed to leave last week, but she was sick. We had a nice study in the beginning of the Good News brochure. We are hoping to see her on Friday too.