NEW RELEASE!! This month, we received the Family Happiness book in Ponapean. When we brought it to Kathleen, she asked how we knew that she and Kulian had decided to marry after 19 years together? She said they would start reading it together that night!! You will be seeing more of them and their very cute (that's not even a good description of her..we just want to eat her up!) baby girl, LoriAnn.
Kathleen started studying earlier in the year. Then, a lot of unavoidable circumstances has caused a long break in her studies. Meanwhile, she reads to Kulian every night. You can see the literature she has in her hand is well worn. Because of this reading together, Kulian wants to study now. We love these two so much!
Last Monday, Robyn took Gloria to meet a lady that had taken every tract Robyn had all at once. She and her daughter came outside, sat down and wanted to study.
Linda and Jonsper live with his uncle. We met the uncle first and visited with him a few times. Now, everyone is studying together. We all watched the video together about Jehovah's Witnesses in the Ponapean language. Jonsper's relative is the narrator, so they were pretty excited to see it! Linda used to study in English and attended meetings at the Kingdom Hall in the past. She is happy to be hearing the same things in her language. We're looking forward to having her join us at the meetings soon.
We're meeting others who studied in English in the past and are now thrilled to be learning in their own language. One lady cried when I showed her the Bible Teach book in her language!
Saturday service with the ladies
And now for some English updates...
During the first Saturday of May, we were focusing on using the Why Study the Bible? video to start Bible studies. Here we see Louise showing the video two times to the same people.
The young girl on the right, Leena, is a high school student. Kayelani, used the back of the Watchtower for the month to spark her interest. She has since moved her study to the Good News brochure. Kayelani showed Leena how to prepare ahead, which she does each time!
