I have sent this back with Aletha and asked her to post it up for me, and since she will have a decent internet connection, there should be pictures!!
Stephan has returned from his trip out. He had stayed in ‘town for a week after the Assembly. Actually he had gone to Henrietta. While there, he had attended another Circuit Assembly along with the three brothers who had been here (they have since returned to the states). After that he had flown to Barbados where he spent a week with his family who had flown in from the states (sweet).
While in Henrietta, he had learned that a woman who had lived here at the Ridge for a number of years, and had been one of the principle ones keeping the work active here was living nearby. Her name is Carolyn Walker and we had met her and spent time with her when we visited Matthew’s Ridge almost four years ago. She had taken us around to different ones so we could speak to them and invite them to a talk I was going to give the next day. I remembered how she had cried when she first met us because she was so happy to have witnesses visiting the Ridge.
Stephan was able to make arrangements to visit her and have a study with her. When he told her how things were progressing here, and that Doris was baptized and Stephanie is an unbaptized publisher, she said, "That should be me! I have been involved with the truth longer than any of them. What am I doing?" She has been working as a security person for a private company and has been working seven days a week, twelve hours a day. She said that she was going to start taking Sunday off so she can attend the meeting. Also Stephan had taken a local brother with him, so now the congregation knows where she is, and hopefully can continue to encourage and assist her. Stephan said it had been very enjoyable being able to share with her all the latest goings on here at the Ridge.
On a less positive note, it appears that we may have lost our access to the internet here at Matthew’s Ridge. Stephan had been able to go to a nearby company that had a satellite dish with internet access and they let him use it since they had paid for unlimited usage. For some reason, none of the rest of us could get our computers to work with it. But this last time he went, the modem would not connect. The thinking is that the subscription has run out, and there are no ‘big’ people there any more, so no reason for the company to renew. If that is the case, it will mean the only opportunity to post up, and even email people will be every other week when I am in Kaituma.
For those familiar with Mabaruma, we have recently heard that three brothers from California are there for three months, so now there are five brothers living in the house there. Rasheeda and Alexandra have moved into what used to be Will’s house in the back, quite a change from a house full of sisters with only one or two brothers there. It will also be nice since it will be Guyanese taking the lead, and some ‘white’ brothers there working under them.
I can’t think of much new and exciting to report from here. I finally was able to put a couple of coats of polyurethane sealer on half of the floor of the Kingdom Hall. It has just been the raw wood and wet mopping it has been neither good for it nor real effective in keeping it clean. We tried to clean it as best we could and then put the sealer on it. I said if it didn’t look that good, we could always paint over it, but once it was painted, there would be no chance to try and have the natural wood look. It looks quite good right now, only time will tell how it holds up. But it should make cleaning the floor much easier.
I’ve selected four pictures. One is of Terri’s first class teaching ones to read and write. Also I’ve included a picture of me after one of my trips on my bike to Kaituma when the road was dusty. There is a picture of Aletha giving a talk on the school. The last one (but the order might be different so you will have to figure which is which) is a picture of a critter that Terri saw across the road from our house..
I am encouraging Aletha to go through her pictures and in a few days post some up along with thoughts on her experience, so hopefully you will get to see more.
Stephan has returned from his trip out. He had stayed in ‘town for a week after the Assembly. Actually he had gone to Henrietta. While there, he had attended another Circuit Assembly along with the three brothers who had been here (they have since returned to the states). After that he had flown to Barbados where he spent a week with his family who had flown in from the states (sweet).
While in Henrietta, he had learned that a woman who had lived here at the Ridge for a number of years, and had been one of the principle ones keeping the work active here was living nearby. Her name is Carolyn Walker and we had met her and spent time with her when we visited Matthew’s Ridge almost four years ago. She had taken us around to different ones so we could speak to them and invite them to a talk I was going to give the next day. I remembered how she had cried when she first met us because she was so happy to have witnesses visiting the Ridge.
Stephan was able to make arrangements to visit her and have a study with her. When he told her how things were progressing here, and that Doris was baptized and Stephanie is an unbaptized publisher, she said, "That should be me! I have been involved with the truth longer than any of them. What am I doing?" She has been working as a security person for a private company and has been working seven days a week, twelve hours a day. She said that she was going to start taking Sunday off so she can attend the meeting. Also Stephan had taken a local brother with him, so now the congregation knows where she is, and hopefully can continue to encourage and assist her. Stephan said it had been very enjoyable being able to share with her all the latest goings on here at the Ridge.
On a less positive note, it appears that we may have lost our access to the internet here at Matthew’s Ridge. Stephan had been able to go to a nearby company that had a satellite dish with internet access and they let him use it since they had paid for unlimited usage. For some reason, none of the rest of us could get our computers to work with it. But this last time he went, the modem would not connect. The thinking is that the subscription has run out, and there are no ‘big’ people there any more, so no reason for the company to renew. If that is the case, it will mean the only opportunity to post up, and even email people will be every other week when I am in Kaituma.
For those familiar with Mabaruma, we have recently heard that three brothers from California are there for three months, so now there are five brothers living in the house there. Rasheeda and Alexandra have moved into what used to be Will’s house in the back, quite a change from a house full of sisters with only one or two brothers there. It will also be nice since it will be Guyanese taking the lead, and some ‘white’ brothers there working under them.
I can’t think of much new and exciting to report from here. I finally was able to put a couple of coats of polyurethane sealer on half of the floor of the Kingdom Hall. It has just been the raw wood and wet mopping it has been neither good for it nor real effective in keeping it clean. We tried to clean it as best we could and then put the sealer on it. I said if it didn’t look that good, we could always paint over it, but once it was painted, there would be no chance to try and have the natural wood look. It looks quite good right now, only time will tell how it holds up. But it should make cleaning the floor much easier.
I’ve selected four pictures. One is of Terri’s first class teaching ones to read and write. Also I’ve included a picture of me after one of my trips on my bike to Kaituma when the road was dusty. There is a picture of Aletha giving a talk on the school. The last one (but the order might be different so you will have to figure which is which) is a picture of a critter that Terri saw across the road from our house..
I am encouraging Aletha to go through her pictures and in a few days post some up along with thoughts on her experience, so hopefully you will get to see more.
