New Experiences

October 16th, 2007 at 1:56pm |

I would like to tell you all a story, so sit back, relax, and enjoy!

I started a study with a woman named Mariana. She is in her fifties and has three grown children. Her son who is in his middle thirties is divorced and lives with her as does her youngest daughter who is 21. When Nathan and I went to her house for her third study she started bawling. I asked her what was wrong and she told us that her daughter was missing and had been missing for five days! All she knew was that Liliana (her daughter) was at school and her and another girl got drunk. The principal told them to go home. They left the school, but she didn’t go home. She left her backpack and cell phone at school. (Why is a 21 year old still in High School you may ask? All the schools here require that you wear uniforms which the parents have to pay for. You are also required to buy your own books. Apparently, if the parents don’t have money to buy a uniform or the books one year, they keep their child home. Then, when they have the money, they send the child back to school.) Mariana was very upset about her daughter missing so we read a lot of comforting scriptures to her (several chapters from Psalms) and Nathan said a prayer. We also returned the following day to check on her. She still had not heard anything from her daughter. This was on a Friday and the daughter had been missing for an entire week. The following Wednesday I saw Mariana on the street. She told me that she had found Mariana and we would talk about it that night at our study. Come to find out Liliana was just afraid of getting in trouble by her older brother for getting drunk and didn’t want to come home! She had been living with her boyfriend the entire time!!! Well, Liliana had been studying with Stephanie (the German sister) and they were already more than half-way through the Bible Teach book. So, Stephanie went to visit Liliana and told her that she would not study with her anymore if she did not start attending the meetings. Stephanie said she needed to show some progress in the truth and show that she really wanted it. LILIANA WAS AT THE KINGDOM HALL FOR THE VERY NEXT MEETING!!! Cool, huh?

One more experience of Stephanie’s: She studies with a woman in her early thirties (Sandra) and the woman’s mother. Sandra had a lump on her throat that started growing so she went to the doctor and they admitted her in to the hospital. She went through all kinds of tests and after about a week in the hospital they determined it was not cancerous and she was released. After this ordeal Sandra told Stephanie that she wanted to come to all the meetings and come in to the truth! We had visited her parents while Sandra was in the hospital to see how she was doing and this impressed them so much that they too have come to every single meeting! The father has also started studying and all three of them comment at every meeting!!!

Now this story is just plain funny: Last Thursday Elke and I went to check on one of her bible studies in a pharmacy. The student wasn’t there, but a woman and her two daughters were so we visited with them. The mother was extremely excited to find out that I speak English and she started talking to me in English. She said that they have been learning but don’t have anyone to practice with and they wanted to see if their pronunciation is good or not. She was trying to get her daughter (who is probably about 14) to ask me questions, but the daughter couldn’t think of anything to say. So, all of a sudden, the mom yells out, “You can sing in English! Sing for her!!” I asked her what song she knew and she said “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion in the Titanic! So, the girl starts singing right there in the pharmacy and sings the entire song!!! I wanted to crack up laughing so badly, but controled myself. It was too cute. An Ecuadorian girl singing the Titanic song in the middle of a pharmacy! When we left Elke said, “This is why I love service here so much. You never know what’s going to happen. I would have never known yesterday that today someone was going to sing to us!”

Love you all very much,
Jennifer

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