Thats beautiful!

Phagwah people

Hello Everyone,

From left to right: Popo, Sharon and Vicky.  The boys are Bible students

How are you doing?  Living in Guyana we get exposed to an assortment of holidays that we have never heard of in the States.  The three major religions in Guyana, Muslim, Hindu and Christian, have like 3 national holidays each.  The Muslim and Hindu holidays are normally new to us.  For example, yesterday, Phagwah, a Hindu holiday.  It is the festival of colors.  People go around throwing buckets of water at each other.  Or they spray squirt guns with dyed water in it, or throw colored powder on you.  Sounds lovely right?  Before Sunday we were warned not to go out because we will get sprayed.  Then someone else told us not to worry about it, that they will respect us and leave us alone.  Well, Jaide got sprayed with red dye on the way to meeting and I got sprayed with blue dye out in the ministry in the afternoon.  No respect, I tell you.

I need to tell you about Renny's friend.  A little over a week ago, I went to Renny's study.  When we got there he excitedly introduced me to his friend, Errol.  Errol sat in on our Bible study.  He learned so fast.  He doesn't know sign language, but he picked it up quick.  He learned God's name in a snap.  We were discussing the Bible's promise of Paradise, and he was understanding everything.  He even pointed at a picture of Paradise and signed "beautiful."  After the Bible study had finished, I showed him the ASL alphabet and to how to fingerspell his name. It only took one time, and he had it.  You don't understand how amazing that is.  We have students that have been studying for months, some even years, who don't know how to fingerspell their name.  He even wrote his name in the exercise book and then under each letter drew the ASL letter hand shape.  Blew me away!  Normally I do that to help them learn their name.  I hope he will be able to sit in on more studies.  He seemed to really enjoy it.

Our Kingdom Hall flooded again.  That means thorough cleaning to disinfect the place.  It has been raining a lot.  Its a muddy mess every where.

Guyanese word of the day:  aawbee. (This is spelled phonetically)  Translation: we.

Love,
G&J