Don and his trusty camel

Toannia and her son at their first meeting

Hello Everyone,

Whats going on? We are doing good.  You want to know what the best thing in the world is?  Hammock time.  There is not much better in life than a nice piece of afternoon hammock time.  A cool breeze blowing, slipping in and out of sleep, listening to the sounds of the neighbors.  Its the best!  We are most definitely bringing our hammocks home with us.

This week we added up how many deaf on our side of the river we have met since we arrived in August. 24 new deaf, hard of hearing or mute persons have been found!  In Guyana there is a surprising amount of people who can hear but can't speak.  We will soon be up to 29 new deaf.  A Muslim man we met knows 5 deaf and is arranging for us to meet them all at his house.  We have still have many villages to go to and search for more deaf.


Has your Bible student ever said or done something that made you think "Where did I go wrong? Am I that bad of a teacher?" Well this week, it happened to both of us. Toannia is hard of hearing and is learning signs. Recently a DVD signed 'Priest', so Jaide showed her a picture and taught her the sign. After a Brother, the Circuit Overseer, visited for a talk, she signed "the Priest has a big Bible". Jehovah's Witnesses don't use titles, so  now we have to teach her that we taught you that sign but don't use it here. Is that confusing enough?

Haresh's brothers

Today, at meeting Graem was sitting with Haresh, when he started to get a little antsy as young boys naturally do.  So, Graem decided to have him start drawing each Bibe character as we talked about them, then have him write their name under them.  On the top of the page he, then wrote his name, "Haresh".  A couple lines down he took a word from the yeartext on the wall, "endures".  Finally, from the book "Sing to Jehovah", he wrote "Jehovah."  Put those words together and he just wrote the sentence, "Haresh endures Jehovah."  Is he trying to tell us something? Man, our interpreting must REALLY be bad!

Guyanese word of the day; longwata. translation; when you make your curry dish stretch to feed all your hungry kids and the gravy pools to the bottom of your rice like water (wata). Not nice. Not tick (thick).

Thanks for listening,

Love,

J&G