My final great weeks with Jen

 Hey all

Oh yes it was big but good and dead phew!!!!!

Hope life is treating you all well and you are enjoying the summer month of August.  So about the snake.  Well most animals you see on or around the road are cows, donkey, horse, pigs and piglets, dogs and cats, ducks, chickens, sheep and goats but this large creature stopped us in our tracks.  It was definitly dead but wow it was big and just on the side of the road.  I think Jehovah has kept me blinded to all the snakes that there must be in skeldon.

Princess Hotel - 1 of only 2 hotels in guyana
but it does have the biggest pool yipeeeeee

Craziness of georgetown

After a long hard day of tanning

Happy bunny.  Sun, pool then Hot Choc fudge Sundae
Oh yeah not bad for a 3rd world country

So me and Jen fancied abit of a treat you know just cos.  So we had a great day in town - 4 hours ish drive away.  We got a lift in by lovely bro and sis in our hall which was a great blessing and even a lift home hence my caption on my 4 hour hug.  We first went to the suriname embassy which was a major pain but at the end of the day I managed to get my visa for my future 3 monthly trip then it was sun and pool calling us.  What a great time we had.  We swam and sunbathed and read our books and just totally destressed and had some needed Rest and Relaxation.  It did Jen the world of good and fired her up for her last 2 weeks of intense ministry and bible study work.  The temperature at the hotel said 39 degrees and that was in the shade and we both would agree it was a scorcher!!!!

My dear friend Nikisha in our hall got engaged to
a fellow pioneer dennis yesterday 

Nikel Nikisha's brother slept the whole way home(4 hours)
snuggled around me so I've had my hug quota
for the whole of July and August Yeah

Jen reading a scripture to a householder

My kingdom hall and my house is just behind couldnt get nearer eh

Christines family always are around when we
study - got to keep your head focused but her mam
does always listen in so I keep praying about her

Christine 14 years old.  Listen to God and soon Good News
 She loves her bible I gave her

Jen crossing an average bridge in our territory 

Veronica Good News Brochure She works in this Water plant
As a security guard so
 we all stand around to study or sometimes shareher little bench

Keeping track of different studies with coloured tabs

Bible study with the lovely 3 boys in Crabwood creek so we decided to act
out all of the faces and make the story come alive

Tina was Pharoh 

Samuel won the star actor award for the confused balding
man

Joey was the balding man with
his mouth wide open

Romel tried to be the man on the far left but couldnt stop smiling

Typical guyanese house

Doing the house to house work in my village of skeldon

So this is some more of my studies and also sad to say brian and shannon our missionary neighbours who live upstairs have had to go home a few weeks early as they have both been really sick and even ended up in guyanese hospital which no one - I mean no one - would want.  So I have 3 of her studies too till mid september.  Dolly and shan and naomi.

Naomi Bible story book

  Dolly had completed the whole teach book and wasnt making progress so shannon prayed alot about it and finally said "come to the meetings and we can have our study again".  Well it was the push dolly needed. 

 

Shan Bible story book

Dolly She has finished the teach book but is going through the good
news brochure as a review.

That is how you speak to studies here.  So along she has come to the meetings with shan her 6 year old boy.  They havent looked back since.  She legally married her husband and comes to all meetings and prepares better than me.  On her study this week she was asking alot about the ministry and how do we know what to place each week and month so we showed her from the Kingdom Ministry and she just kept asking more and more ????.  She has a genuine heart that is clearly full of love for Jehovah.  Even the study with her little boy is lovely so I count it a blessing and privilege to take care of her study while shannon is away.

So Jen wanted to taste guyanas finest budget 5 year old
El dorado rum.  The rum I only drink.  Well a most generous
sister offered to gives us a sample of both the 5 year and the
world famous award winning 15 year too.  Well as they say
"Once you've tried the good stuff you cant go back" Wow that is
so so true.  Oh my yumminess..............................................
So that will have to fit into my budget somehow

We passed this on our way back from town.  Made me think
of my dad calling all the sisters lovely lass.  This is the
name of a village here.  Love you dad your words are even
in Guyana

Had a great day of ministry on thursday a day we normally dont go out but it was a holiday.  Met a lovely woman and her mother.  They lived in suriname and had a bible study there and went to all the meetings.  The sister that studied with them just called that week to see if Jehovahs Witnesses had been by.  And then thurs we were there.  So she wants her study back again and also wants to come to the kingdom hall with her mother on sunday so that was a great day for us.  Every one was home that day in the village so we all placed about 30 to 40 mags each.  A great mornings service. Ps Just found out that she came to the meeting on sunday with her mother.  It was raining so so hard that they had to get a taxi and sat in the back of the hall so I didnt get to see them but that was great to know they came.  Yeah.

Sarah a new publisher out on 1 August a guyanese holiday
She placed over 40 mags.  Great day except we kept
getting followed by herd of cows hehehehe

We had group family worship again.  WE do it once a month.  As a bonus to family worship not instead of.  Our subject was humility and it was great.  So nice for jen to be with all of our group and relax with some tasty food after too.

Our beach day!!!  We had sunday pm by 63 beach or for those of you who have read my blog last time Sexy tree beach.  We wanted to show Jen the true beauty of guyanas finest beach.  I am being sarcastic a little.  The water is the colour of cappuccino and the sand is dark and a bit dirty but hey we had so much fun.  We filled a bus and a car with as many as we could from the cong.  Sunday was a rainy day but it didnt put us off.  We had races and swam and had Indian dancing lessons and played football all in the rain and while alot of the brothers had umbrellas   The best part was one of the sisters brought along a bottle of whiskey to warm us all up.  It was probably still over 70 degrees and the ocean was warmer than the bath back home but hey who are we to complain.  So all in all we had a great time and all the kids seemed to really love it which was great for us.  All I keep saying to Jen is only in Guyana.  It is a special country in more ways than one.

Wet from the pouring rain but didnt dampen our spirits

Miss you all so much.  So now I am home alone.  Nobody with me until melinda comes back the middle of september and nobody above me till mid september.  But dont you worry about me. Im safe as houses here that is for sure.  And I have a full list of sisters including a few of our beautiful kids who are going to stay over for sleep overs so I will be so fine. Just had my first meeting without jen.  I had 9 studies here today.  So that kept me so busy.  Also Jen and I had to run into a random families yard in the pouring rain a few weeks back and we invited them to the meeting.  Well the daughter came today so in a sense Jen got the answer to one of her prayers.  She wanted a study to come to the meeting and she kind of did.  Yeah Jen.  My prayers are with brian and shannon as Im sure yours will be too that they can make it safe and well back to our spiritual pioneer paradise in skeldon guyana and also that my new forever friend Jen has had a safe trip back to sunny geordie land and is full of zeal to start off her new service year.  

Miss you all and keep cool and enjoy the last of your summer too.  Its only getting hotter here.  September is the hottest month here.  

Lots of love

Natalie