Hello... Again!

Hello Friends! It has been a while. I apologize for the lack of updates and posts. We have been busy with some great things. First- the Circuit Assembly. I am sure you all enjoyed it as much as we did. The information was amazing and so enjoyable to sit and listen to :). Also, we have been enjoying the bible studies we have received. So far we have enjoyed getting great calls with people out in the field service. Riley's study has progressed so much, and is trying her best to get to her first meeting! Isn't that awesome. We are exciting for her to hopefully get to her first meeting soon. We also study with a family who is also enjoying their study and are progressing very well. This family has four kids and they a such a lovely family! I will hopefully be getting to capture some more photos to post. As of right now, I don't have any :( But, when I do I will be sure to share them with you as soon as I can.

Jehovah's Blessings

We have truly been blessed in our couple of months of serving where the need is greater. It has truly been such a privilege! We really enjoy getting to know all the friends. Our service here has been very productive! Jehovah has blessed us with nine committed bible studies! Isn't that awesome? A few of them are working their way to getting to the meeting! That is just a brief little update I was sure you would be happy to hear!
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Along with the new service year comes a lot of planning.
Therefore a family got all of the pioneers together to combine all of our service days. We enjoyed god association and good Italian food:)

Planting Seeds of Truth

Hello Everybody. I wanted to update you on a couple of our calls. Some of them have even progressed into bible studies, which have been so AWESOME! Remember the call that the young brother offered the bible study to? He gave that study to us since he was going to be starting school. Since then we have been able to conduct three studies with the family. They have four kids, I got to read some of the bible story lessons with them, and the oldest one loved it! They have enjoyed their personal study out of the Bible Teach book so much. We have had a study with them almost every week. This past week the oldest kid had to go to the hospital because his jaw swelled up. We went and visited him and the first thing he said was "I watched the video you gave me!" We had given him a video for him and his brothers and sisters to watch about obedience. His mom said that they loved the video. We brought his mom some lunch and a few magazines. She said "Great, I am so glad you brought me some things to read!" They were very thankful for us coming by. The little boy got sent home yesterday. We are hoping we can get to visit with them more this week.

On another great note, Riley got a bible study (Yay!) George handed her a call on a woman that he had been calling on for a while. The next time Riley went up and offered her a study from the Bible Teach book. She agreed. Since then they have had multiple great studies. She asked great questions like: "Where are the dead?" " Do you guys celebrate Christmas?". They studied with her 2 times a week!!! Then she said "Do you think we could not study as often? Like maybe once a week?" So now they have gotten to study once a week with her. She said that she was already in chapter seven in the book! She even uses Jehovah's name! They invited her to meeting although she didn't get to come to the meeting that week.. She said that she would try to come to the Kingdom Hall next week! Isn't that awesome? She is doing great and we look forward to more studies with her.

So there are a couple of our new experiences. We will keep you updated on how the studies continue to progress!

Exciting Anouncments!

We now have two new pioneers in the Crawfordville Kingdom Hall. We were so happy to here that "Jim Honeycutt is now a regular pioneer" at the meeting this last Tuesday. YAY! We were so excited to know we would have a new pioneer with us in service. Another younger brother in our hall decided he would be able to start pioneering, with Jim, this coming September.

 Our service here is going very well. We usually start our service day on Tuesday and Saturday with early morning witnessing. We get a chance to stop at gas stations and we have been having lots of good experiences. One presentation we use in early morning witnessing is taking out a couple of magazines and asking the person: "Which one of these interests you?" In many cases people have taken all of them and said they would read them all! One time a boy in our hall went up with six magazines, trying this approach, and the man took all of them! Another time a man even gave us a donation for coming and leaving the magazines with him. Lots of people here are very receptive to the truth, and we have gotten to get more and more RV's throughout are ministry.  The same younger brother that placed the six magazines had an awesome call this week. He had a RV he wanted to make and Mom suggested that he offer a bible study with her since he had been calling on her for so long. He wasn't sure about how to offer the study so she told him a couple of things he could say. He went up to the door and caught the man home. He told him he had something he would like to share with his wife if she was home. She wasn't so he decided he would share the same news with the husband. He shared a couple of scriptures with him and then offered him a bible study. The man told him what time he would be home. Then he asked for a bible. He said that his was so hard to understand and when Adrian shared scriptures from his bible, they were easier to understand. So sometime next week, Adrian said he would come and drop the bible off and show him more about the book "What Does The Bible Really Teach?" It was such a exciting call to end the day on.
Here is a picture of Adrian and Mom at the door talking to the man out in service

 I hope to let you know how the rest of the call turns out to be. It is such a blessing to work out in service with our friends!

Airplane @ My RV

This is what I saw in the front yard when I was making a RV....

It is pretty interesting right? I was surprised when I saw it! My call wasn't home & I sadly can't give you any updates, but I thought you would like to see what I found!

Rainy Days.... Don't You Love Em'?

Seriously! The rain hasn't stopped for a whole 3 days! We couldn't believe it. We ended up with a pond in our from yard- here are a couple pictures:)

You see our little pond?

Going to Return Visit.... or maybe not!

The rain went away- FINALLY & we got a little sunshine peaking through the clouds:)

Interesting Experiences...

We wanted to share some of our experiences in the new territory to everyone. We have had a good response to far. We are slowly trying to rebuild our call books, which might take a while! But that's okay, we are so ready!
I will start by telling you are early morning witnessing experience. It was pretty interesting. We have a small group that meets in the morning at 7:30 to hit the gas stations and local grocery stores. We were at a gas stop & one of the younger brother gets out of the car & head towards a man that is getting gas, he caught him right before he went into the store. He placed one Awake with him. As he talked to him for a minute he said that his ex-wife & mother-in-law were both a witness.
Meanwhile, my dad catches a man leaning against his car. He brought 3 or so magazines with him & said whichever one he finds interesting he can take. He took all three of them! We were sitting in the car & the man that the younger brother came up to our car door, my dad rolled down his window. The man says "Hey, you gave that man three magazines and a Watchtower! How come I didn't get one?" My dad asked him if he would like a copy of the Watchtower & he said he would love one. While we talked to him, he said that he studied with a brother once in the Crawfordville Kingdom Hall. We left him an invitation to the meeting &  said that if he would like to resume his study we would love to help him!
It was such an encouraging experience. We definitely saw how Jehovah's holy spirit was in our car group!

Here is our second experience. This will be interesting. When we first got here, we went into a neighborhood by the ocean. As you enter you will read a sign that says 'Aircraft Have Right Of Way'.

Neighborhood Entrance

At first I thought they were joking. Nope! As you go in you see that almost all the houses have hangers for their planes & there is a take off lane for the planes. It was my turn to go to the door, I snagged Riley to go with me. The woman was outside and immediately approached us. She was very friendly. I got through half of my presentation, then she said "I am so sorry, Just one second could I interrupt? My husband is about to land his plane!" I said "Of course!" Then her husband comes in with his plane and lands it right in their back yard! I thought- how cool is that! So I continued with my presentation. Then for a second time she said "Could I interrupt again?" Next thing we know her husband is flying his plane from out of their backyard! We got to watch him  up close. I got to share a scripture or two with her and offered the magazines on Religion and Politics, she seemed to be interested! I can't wait to go back to here and offer her the new magazines!