Just a note by way of explaination on the pictures. The first one was from our river trip today. The second one I took a couple of days ago. The thermometer normally hangs on a wall on the back porch and usually shows about 95 in the middle of the day, but that's in the shade, and we are usually out walking about in the sun. So I decided to place the thermometer in the sun, just to see what it would record. I'm not sure if you can read it on this page, but it is reading about 109, so it does get quite warm here during the day
I'm afraid I somehow lost the second picture, and I'm not going to spend another hour trying to insert it, so you will just have to take my word until you see our pictures when we get back.
Today we went on the river one more time before we leave. Terri, Jennifer, and I went. The weather was excellent, we only got lightly showered on once. As we well getting ready to leave Kumaka,a woman was out on the wharf with a small boy. She asked if we were going to Kaituma, as the boy needed a ride. Terri told her we were only going part way up the Kaituma. The woman then asked if we would take the boy as far as we were going. I told Terri to say no, as I didn’t want to have to worry about what would happen if we just left him somewhere along the river.
Today was a typical river day. We had some really nice calls where they asked us when we were coming back, and you feel bad because you can’t give them an answer. And then you have some calls where it’s like talking to a brick wall. At one house, Jenn was talking to an older woman, and asked her about the other ones there with her. One was a granddaughter and an older one was her daughter. Jenn was having a hard time reasoning with her on the scriptures, so to just try and make conversation, she asked the woman her daughters name. The woman just looked at her, (like she had been doing with most her other questions) and then leaned back into the house and asked the daughter her name. It’s very hard with ones like that.
At another door she was reasoning on how Jehovah and Jesus are two separate individuals, showing her where Jesus said the father was greater than he was. So she asked, “so are they the same?” The woman replied, “Yes, sister.” So the Jenn tried a different approach and pointed to a small boy there and asked if he had a father, to which she replied. “Yes sister.” So Jenn asked are the boy and his father the same one? “Yes sister.” It can be very trying at times, but other times so rewarding. Truly, the harvest is great, and the workers are few.
I finished digging the pit for the toilet, now we only need the lumber. I picked up the zinc for the roof Tuesday, so we have that.
Ellis has gone over the first two sets of questions for baptism, so that is on track. Now all I need to do is figure out how to make a baptism pool to have here at the hall, so all can see the baptism. We had noticed someone nearby has one of those inflatable small pools in there yard now. Will suggested we might speak to them about renting it for the day, Again, Jehovah will provide.
Someone had emailed the girls recently that a question had been asked on Jeopardy “What is the most accurate bible translation?” And when nobody got the answer Alex read the answer as, “The New World Translation, by Jehovah’s Witnesses.” I don’t know if anyone out there can confirm that or not. But if true, I’m sure that may have created a stir with some.
