Well my lovely readers, I hope all is well back home. Thanks
to those of you who have been keeping in touch with emails and letting me know
what is going on back home. It seems like I have been here for ages, but in
reality it has only been two months! I am not sure if that is a good thing or
not…
Things have been really busy, as you can tell from the title
of this little update. I put in my pioneering form and completed my first month
successfully. It is a strange thing to see one’s average hours go from the
twenties to above the requisite seventy. I was really fortunate to do one
hundred and one hours!!! I say ‘fortunate’ as this past week has been
horrendous for ministry, so I am glad it all evens out through a year. With the
assembly taking place, we had to attend rehearsals, spend a day setting up,
have the pioneer meeting and then the two days of the assembly. Tiring stuff.
The assembly went really well, Guyana style. We feared that
the set up was not going to be complete in time and my patience was sorely
tested with people not living up to their word or not treating things in a
serious enough manner, so that was good training for me! I had the privilege of
interpreting all of the DO’s talks, along with some other talks, so I was busy
with my ASL interpreting-debut. On the whole it went well, despite major power
cuts throughout the day causing the speakers to have to cut and edit their
talks with an axe, which makes interpreting less than easy. Everyone did a
sterling job though and we made it through. We had about a thousand present on
the Sunday and there were four baptised on the Saturday, one being a brother
from our hall who I am good friends with. I am not sure if I will get to post
pictures embedded in this blog, but I will try.
With the assembly over, we had a much earned rest on Monday,
that for me has spilled over to today also. The power has been off all day,
since 8 am, so I have just been chilling and reading. Sadly, no power means no
fans, so it hasn’t been the most comfortable of rest days. Ho Hum. Spooky, as I
type, the power has just leapt into action and the sweat is being blown from my
brow by the fan!
I have to go now and see if I can wash some clothes for the
week as I am completely out of wares. Missing you all.
DTG
I can smell you from here...well done on El Pioneering, nothing like making the rest of us feel like wasters. I too am glad it averages out over the year, though the way I am going I will never ever ever ever get a rest....Mum and dad arrive tomorrow YIKES off to hoover xx Miss you xxx
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