English Service

Since the Circuit Overseer visit last week the English group has been finally given much needed direction. Before we would go out in service with the Spanish Congregation and talk to English households when the opportunity arose. Now we have all been given a very important assignment. We need to map out and create actual english territories. Our area spreads out over a few hundred miles, so this is a very in-depth project that will take I think at least a year. I started helping with this project on Tuesday and was in charge of drawing the map with roads and adding the houses. The roads are all gravel and bumpy and by the end of the day i couldn't even read my own writing. There's a lot of driving involved, we drive to a town and just start taking every gravel road to see where it will lead us. Sometimes there's a house sometimes it just a dead end, but with a beautiful view. At this point we aren't even trying to figure out if they speak spanish or english yet, we just need to know where the houses are in each little town. Once a territory is created, a group works it and then writes down next to the house icon on the territory whether they speak english or spanish. So you can start to get a feel for how long this project will take! But up until now, english has never been worked beyond a 20 mile radius- and even that has never been worked in an orderly fashion with any sort of records kept. With at least 12 visitors here to help english right now, the CO feels we can focus on this and get a lot accomplished in a short amount of time.
I'm finally posting a picture of the kingdom hall and a little peek inside during meeting on Sunday. Most of our meetings will now be in english except the Theocratic Ministry School on Thursday. There's enough visitors right now to support our own meeting, which is awesome because I won't be speaking or understanding spanish anytime soon! David was brave and signed up for the school to do a bible reading. His spanish is pretty good, I'm very impressed - we're all jealous.