March 2009

Dennis and the girls on the service meeting. One of the bethelites from Canada sitting in front.

Hunter, Jessika (Kadi's little girl), DJ and Kadence

Hunter, preaching in Dry Season.

Don't know what happened the pictures are the wrong way.... I fixed them three times but they keep coming up this way.....

Here are some new pictures of Dexter the Monkey. He is doing great! He likes to take care of his baby doll. His wounds have healed well and today for the first time I put a collar on his waist and hooked him to a leash, he did really well. He is still leary of people some but has come a long way. His favorite foods are cucumber, rice, grapefruit and canned mushrooms. He also likes mango and pineapple. He actually doesn't like banana very much.

The little ones send a big Hello to the Jenkins kids and Giavanna, thankyou for your comments to the blog.

We had a wonderful time in Lunsar again this past Saturday. Lorelle's preaching started at a small shop, with a woman and her 7 year old son. The woman listened and said she would come to the meeting. Later in the afternoon we walked past the shop, it was locked. The woman came to the meeting, she had gone home first to change into very nice culture clothes and she brought her son too. After the meeting she asked for the study issue of the Watchtower so she could be ready for the meeting next week.

Shelby was preaching at one home and the older pa of the family called all to gather to listen, shelby had been prepared with one presentation but had to change when the pa said "Your hear to teach us Gods name" over a dozen people gathered. One of the teenage girls and her younger sister from the group came to the meeting.

Another experience Shelby had was with a group of 6 or so people, she was showing them the blessings of everlasting life, one young man said, it wouldn't be possible, because as he said "if nobody died, people would starve because there wouldn't be enough food" she had the opportunity to share the scripture at Ps. 72:16 "plenty of grain on the earth".

DJ and Kadence had a return visit on a young boy, he came to his second meeting this week.

A missionary couple came with us to Lunsar this weekend. While walking on the road the brother met a man that asked if we were Jehovah Witnesses, he said he had attended some meetings in Freetown in the past, but had had to move to Lunsar for work. He was happy to come to the meeting, after the meeting we had a good conversation. He is the area Youth Counselor he said he is going to tell all the youth they need to come to the meetings on Saturday to learn bible truths. This explained why during the meeting he had waved to two different young men walking by and had them the meeting.

We are really enjoying our expanded ministry in territory that has not been preached in in over 10 years, there had been a Kingdom Hall there years ago before the war. We have had a number of friends in our congregation here in Freetown say they would love to come work in Lunsar with us. We are happy for the support and enjoy working with different ones. Many would like to go, but transport is not easy. Having our vehicle is a wonderful blessing.

Last week we had given a young mother and her baby a ride to Freetown from Lunsar after her transport had broke down on the road. She said she would be at the meeting this week and gave us her phone number. We called the number three times when we reached Lunsar, the phone was turned off. The woman did not show at the meeting. After the meeting we decided to tour Lunsar a bit and see the local hospital. While at the hospital a woman ran up and hugged Shelby, it was Melicente the young woman, she was so happy to see us, she had been called into work unexpectedly and could not have her cell phone at work. She said she was sorry she missed the meeting and would look forward to seeing us next week.

When Dennis' brother Norman visited he met a very nice man who came to the meeting, he is continuing to study.

We heard you got 6 inches of snow in NH, hard to imagine when we had 105 register on the vehicle thermometer on Sunday afternoon after the meeting. We are into the dry season now, but we get good breezes, the kids were flying homemade kites today. Even inland in Lunsar there is a good stiff breeze off the African plains in the afternoon.

Take care, thinking of you often, Lorie