If all goes as to plan, tomorrow we will get a boat to Kaituma and from there arrange transportation to Matthew’s Ridge. We have been in Guyana for almost four weeks and are getting anxious to reach our destination so we can get on with the work.
I know there are many who have been following the work here in Mabaruma who no doubt are interested in how the congregation is doing. They have been on their own now for four months. They are holding up quite well, The work load is a little more on the brothers now since Alex has left Mabaruma for Georgetown. He has gone for some training for a job that supposedly will be his when he returns. He plans on getting back in January. In addition, the Fazarali family had gone to ‘town early for the District Convention, so Solo was away for four weeks. Needless to say, Bro. Baxter was very busy. But he has been assisted by the remaining brothers here. Bro. Smith (Elroy) has had to do more and his reading has noticeably improved. Even Ellis has submitted to wearing a suit jacket so he could assist with the microphones.
I have noticed a change in Aleric, he seems a little more withdrawn. I spoke to Seeta about it and she said it’s a combination of his age (entering adolescence) and the fact that Alex isn’t around. Norma’s daughter Alexandra has really shown a change. She had gotten baptized at the SAD program when we left in April. She has been living with Rasheeta in the big house, since she didn’t want to be there alone. During the summer months, since Rasheeta wasn’t teaching, she was out almost every day in the ministry and Alexandra went along with her. At the end of the summer she told Rasheeta that pioneering hasn’t as hard as she had expected, and she thinks when she finishes school she would like to start pioneering as well.
The most exciting development just happened today. I was speaking to the Circuit Overseer and he mentioned that he had just received word from the branch office in Georgetown that as of November 1st, there will be two Special Pioneer brothers assigned to Mabaruma, Bro. Rayburn Gomes and Bro. Shane Anthony, both of whom are recent MTS graduates and both are serving as elders as well, so the friends here will be well cared for. Jehovah truly is a hearer and answerer of prayers.
I apologize for no pictures again, but when we reach Matthew’s ridge, I will try very hard to figure a way to post some pictures again.
