Today started out like any regular Sunday. We have the meeting at 10am and then go home eat and sleep then return for service at 2:30pm. Instead today I went “out to eat” at Esso(Exxo). It was good though, fried chicken, Oreo Frappes and Coke. After I walked a visiting couple home and sat down for literally 15minutes before having to head back to the hall to meet the group. I tried a study that my friend turned over. No esta. After we did Sunday only calls. After literally searching for half the people I found a girl. Just happened to have placed ALL my Truth Tracts. So I pulled out the Feb. WT and introduced the young English-speaking woman to the study article on Why Does God Have an Organization Today? If it hadn’t been for the demo I had at the beginning of this month, I don’t how I would have otherwise breezed through that section. It’s HARD! Anyways, it’s all I had so she invited me in. When it came time to read the first scripture she ran to fetch her bible in Spanish. To my pleasant surprise it was a New World Translation. She read the scripture and said that she didn’t understand anything as I asked her questions about the text. I apologized that this subject matter wasn’t the easier to jump right into but urged her to continue and keep going into the second paragraph. We read the scripture in Isaiah. I prayed that she understand and what do you ya know, I asked her Why did Jehovah organize the Isrealites in the past and she actually answered correctly in her own words! That was all holy spirit because I did nothing to help her reach that conclusion rather than have her read what was on the printed page. We decided to meet up tomorrow after lunch and cover the next section about God’s Organization today. Due to the difficult subject matter she agreed to read over the section ahead of time. Whew! The awesome thing is she lives blocks from me! I can walk to her myself and won’t even have to meet with the group if the study becomes regular, which I hope!
But it gets even better! The brother taking the lead mentions that he has a few studies to do. I didn’t particularly want to go along, but I had this guy call who seemed really interested and I hadn’t seen in 2 weeks. So we agreed I would accompany him on his 2 studies and we could swing by my call. So I hopped onto the back of the dirt bike(that’s why it pays to wear appropriate length skirts- I just happened to have on my longest skirt I own). Long story short, neither of his studies were home. But my call was. A little bit of background. I met this guy 2 weeks ago on a Sunday. He wanted to know the condition of the dead. We covered that section in the truth tract. We read all the scriptures and to check his understanding I had him repeat everything back to me in Spanish. To reinforce everything we learned I showed him the picture in the Bible Teach Book where it shows a blown-out candle and the caption asks where the flame went. He exclaimed that he has the same book in Spanish. Also, he commented that the bible is quite simple. He liked that I was patient with his limited English. I asked him would he like to continue his learning in Spanish or English. He said English. So I got his number. For the last 2 weeks, we have been texting each other and playing phone tag. So today I didn’t call. I just showed up. He opened the door and invited us in. For the next 1 hr and 15minutes we covered the next question that he had picked: How can I pray and be heard by God? The brother I turned him over to slowly covered all that Jesus had to say about prayer in Matthew Chapter 6 and we ended with examining the Model Our Father Prayer. At the end, the student asked where we meet and we invited him to attend the meetings. He commented that he had stopped praying to God and was looking for answers on his own outside of religion. But he had noticed by comparing Catholics, Evalgelicos and Jehovah’s Wittnesses that something was different about us. We used the bible to answer everything and it made sense. The brother used an ongoing illustration about having a girlfriend and the way you phone her to having a relationship with God and prayer is like phoning her. Movistar(the cellphone service down here) is like Jesus, we need him to reach God. It was better than any analogy I could’ve came up with. So I learned a lot as well.
So I’d say today was one of the best days in service for me because I successfully turned over a guy who is sincerely interested and found a girl close to me to cultivate. I’ve experienced so many blessing s being down here in Granada, it’s just making it that much harder to leave. L
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