Rachel and Rebecca's Bolivian Adventure!!: The memorial!

Hi everyone!!

Sorry we haven't updated the blog in a while. We've been super busy and the wifi here has been super spotty.

We're continuing to have a great time in bolivia! The brothers and sisters here are so nice, hospitable, and really looks out for us to make sure that we are safe. We've been spending a lot of our time here in the ministry. As I mentioned in an earlier post we do a lot of informal witnessing here. Whether it's us going up to people in a park and offering them literature or if people come up to us and ask us why we are visiting bolivia. We've been having some amazing experiences! Some of the time when people see us in the park they call out to us "la Atalaya" (which means the watchtower) so we go up to them and start a conversation with them. I ironically met a couple who are from arlington, va and was able to share a memorial invitation and tract with them, then the wife started asking me questions about the trinity and blood transfusions. We had a really great conversation! I met another guy who used to live in the states and when I explained that I was a Jehovah's witnesses he said "man you guys are really everywhere!" I was able to leave the magazines and a tract with him and we had a really nice conversation. It's so amazing to see how people here really listen to you and grasp onto the truth. Ally has even started a few bible studies!

The weather here has been sooo hot! But I'm definitely not complaining, epically after the winter we had in Virginia. But it does make service challenging, especially when you have to walk everywhere and can't go into an air conditioned car for a break. So we are careful to make sure that we dress light and always have lots of water on hand!

We had an amazing turn out at the memorial! The Bolivian sign language group that we attend has about 30 publishers, but there was 70 people at the memorial and 32 were deaf! Almost double from last year! It is so encouraging to see how Jehovah's organization really makes sure everyone gets the truth in their language. It can be tough to find deaf here because a lot of them were never taught sign language so they don't really know any way to communicate. That's why it's so loving that the organization has provided so many different tools for those who have limited communication skills.

We're trying to get better at updating the blog more often. We leave to go visit the salt flats and won't have any wifi so we won't be able to update it for s few days but we will definitely update it when we get back!!

Much love,

Rachel and Rebecca