first week of service

Wednesday 23^rd January-Sunday 27^th of January

Wednesday,lots of young ones at the group on Wednesday. Papa D, and Uncle Harold. Sorry, starting to get so long ago so we're forgetting the details, who did we meet when? 

Thursday, first meeting. Wohoo! The power went out during the 2^nd song, we sang the rest acapella and to answer afterwards we had to speak very loud(no problem;)) Power came back and we got music to the last song.

Friday, we had the young ones over and studied a chapter in the Young people ask-book. These youngsters are great! After a while most opened up and afterwards we played “four-in-the-sofa” which happened to be a bed, but it just sounds wrong. This is a very unpractical game for remembering new names since everybody changes names constantly, but lots of laughs!

 Shakira, Astrid, Marian Anna And Grace aka cookie

 Trine all of a sudden hoes "wow! Look at this cool effect on the camera! I didn't even know of it!" I take a look and sadly after half a second comes to the conclusion that its just not interly open. 

 Kadu.....isn't that the coolest name. Kaaaaaduuuuuu! Like an explosion!

 Morno-Litho

 Massimo & Bianca

Saturday, except for Uncle Harold we we’re the oldest ones at the meeting for field service at nine. 16 year old Morno-Litho took the lead. I worked with Astrid and Trine with Ewald and Marian. I met Alvin, seemed to be a very sincere man after a discussion about what hope there is for the dead he was wondering what God will do with the wicked ones, we will go back with the Watchtower article “Does God punish wicked people in Hellfire?” Trine was very impressed with Marian, she’s 14 and a very zealous teacher!

On our way back to the Kingdom Hall we bought fat cooks, for all of us. We were going to clean the hall and figured that we all needed something in our bellies:) Now only the young ones left all voluntarily helped cleaning the Hall, we have a beautiful hall here, brothers and sisters! Come and see it! It’s located between many other churches but easy to distinguish(I think it looks a bit like a castle) Sadly we didn’t bring a camera for this joyous event, maybe next week? When we we’re finished we sang the Kingdom Melodies for tomorrow and Thursday, and some favorites.

We were way too tired to join to the beach, but when Bianca asked us to come over our overly social selves could not resist. We got to taste pop! Classic African food that you eat with your hands, yummy! We, and with “we” I mean “they”, and with “they” I mean Trine and the rest ate it with some kind of seashell-clam-like-thing that they had picked at the beach. Love the fact that they do so much together here.

Sunday

Gahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Sorry, but meeting 9 in the morning. Cannot say this works well with me. Not that we went to bed late. But, how many of you have met me in the morning? Poor Trine, she has to be the smiling face outwards. People was seriously concerned and thought I was not well. Uncle Ashley comment after having the watchtower study

"What was wrong with you Hanna, where were you?!"

Hmm, and still I was answering, I wonder what I said...

Meeting for fieldservice after the meeting was something we had missed, better planning next week. So we went home, and joined for Anna’s study in the afternoon. That was a bit of a first week in Luderitz.

Ohhh, In the field

After the first week we’ve started 2 studies by doing returns after a day or two. And we already have many returns! Almost everybody is listening and many willingly get their own Bibles to follow. We use the truth-tract, in English, Afrikaans, Oshiwambo, Kwangali. Did I miss one?

Have you ever felt frustrated that people don’t seem to think? Unwilling to even choose a question, which makes it almost impossible for us to adjust ourselves to present the message so that they find it interesting. I think that this is one of the things I appreciate most, it’s a small thing, but I love the fact that people CHOOSE a question, giving you somewhere to start! Many here pick the same one, about prayer, death or happiness in life. So we’re starting to get to know the tract and the scriptures very well.  Working with different publishers also helps to develop our way of teaching others.

What we didn’t know how to this week

Still struggling with being polite enough, people great each other all the time

Speak Afrikaans or Oshiwambo

Lessons

Trineohanna have shortened the way to Built Together with 15 min, Shortcuts katchiiiing!

Trineohanna can pretend that they know everybody and say hi and hello to everybody