Havin' a merry ol'time now, are we?! Here are some recent pictures from our adventures and ministry. Lately, we have been preaching in a small town about 15 minutes to the East of Magdalena called La Viña. A few of the friends from Cajamarca come out every two weeks and help us. There is usually a good response out there, so recently we decided to hold a meeting there at the Common House. We spent all day this Monday preaching and inviting everyone to attend, and we ended up having 14 visitors plus our 6 in attendance! Isn't that great? You can see a few pictures of La Viña here, and I will be able to get the rest soon from Jérémie.
One of the more interesting elements of La Viña is the return. Normally, we try to catch a taxi for one Sol, but that entails piling 6 or 7 deep into it (even more if you're willing to ride in the back). In this case, Jérémie was fortunate to get the last seat in the back.
I struggled to decide if I would stay behind or try to squeeze in, but thankfully a helpful stranger gave me a recommendation.
Lately, I've been trying to be more responsible in my habits. I live by myself now, so it's entirely up to me to maintain things in order. That also includes trying to eat better and cook for myself. (And Amy didn't think I was paying attention all those years.......)
New digs, eh! I actually bought a table to eat at! And I try to have things around the house to eat that grow on trees and bushes instead of wrappers and boxes. Lol
One of the greatest things about living here in Peru is the vast assortment of extremely fresh, extremely high-quality produce that is sometimes ridiculously cheap. The avocadoes here are literally as big as a human head sometimes, and guacamole has become a staple. You can always throw in some toasted corn, pasta, vegetables, and sheep head. Wait what?
Just kidding.
This is the Sunday market here in Magdalena. People come down from the higher villages in the mountains to sell everything they literally just picked out of their field. No pesticides, no chemicals. They haven't even washed the dirt off of it yet. And this market? Haha it's literally 20 feet from where I sleep.
One of my favorite new natural foods is this: It's called Yacón. It's technically a tubor, I think, so very similar to a potato. But it's eaten raw. On the outside, it looks like any other potato, but inside it's orange like a carrot, and actually tastes like a sweet carrot. But, it's full of water! It's like a sweet carrot mixed with a water chesnut. I think there was an article in the Awake! about it in earlier years. Watch the transformation:
One of my favorite new natural foods is this: It's called Yacón. It's technically a tubor, I think, so very similar to a potato. But it's eaten raw. On the outside, it looks like any other potato, but inside it's orange like a carrot, and actually tastes like a sweet carrot. But, it's full of water! It's like a sweet carrot mixed with a water chesnut. I think there was an article in the Awake! about it in earlier years. Watch the transformation:
Stage One: "That's just a potato!"
Stage Two: "Hey that's different"
Stage 3: (chewing noises)
Our group is doing great! Here are the sisters (second from the left had to go back to Lima sadly).
And here's little Adriel. His grandmother is also a sister in our group. Poor little trooper had a rough night... fell asleep during the meeting and fell and smacked his head (like a little Euticus), and somewhere in between managed to pee himself.
The ministry continues to be nice, with basically everyone inviting you to take a seat inside or outside (usually outside) and have a conversation. Currently, we're trying hard to get the people to realize that it's important to come to the meetings. Everyone has a dozen studies, and 44 people attended the Memorial, but they just don't seem to think it's desperately important to come to the meeting. With Jehovah's help and time, hopefully this will change.
We have little opposition here. The Seventh-Day Adventist Church has been the major religion here for decades, but the pastors don't even seem to mention the Witnesses, and all of their members will have open conversation about the Bible. The majority will even tell us that Witnesses have the truth.
You'll always have one opposer, though. Like this character here.... tried to chase us away in the territory the other day.
You'll always have one opposer, though. Like this character here.... tried to chase us away in the territory the other day.
You never know what you'll run into down here. Sometimes it's a gang of back-alley turkeys (dirty vagabonds, gamblin' in the streets and scarin' our children)....
Or sometimes it's a lovely skyline over the manicured plaza in the center of town as you walk to the store...
Or sometimes you go cruise over and look at the kittens in your "shed" in the back yard....
In all cases, life is as sweet as you let it be. May the hard times never outweigh the good, and may your words never all be misunderstood. I miss you all! Thanks for reading. :) All my other pictures, again, can be found here!
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Love the little boy...too cute...your meal looks delicious! This place seems amazing...continue having fun!!
ReplyDeleteLove you!! (nice you are keeping your place nice and clean!)
Amy
Oh..and the KITTENS!!!! I LOVE THOSE TOO!!!!!
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