God's Word Is Truth District Convention 2013

FIRST ,THERE ARE NO SPOILERS HERE. I just wanted to make that very clear before I get started.

My little partner , Logan

Hello friends!! We just got back home today from our convention and I'm telling you, it was amazing! The speakers were had were so great and the information was so timely. On Thursday morning a group of 30 from our congregation packed into a small guagua (like a minibus) and drove down to Santo Domingo to help with the cleaning of the assembly hall. It was so great seeing all the help! Even the small ones from various congregations were there to support us. Friday was a big emotional day because of some of the experiences we had. One in particular I wanted to share with you.

Logan and his sister

Our brother has many years of faithful service to Jehovah and many years serving here in the Dominican Republic. He was actually sent to start the English congregation up in Puerto Plata. So as you can guess many people know him and cherish him. He revealed to the audience that he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer and that he's not expected to survive more than a year. At this point tears were in everyone's eyes. He began to speak of how great of a privilege it had been to serve here and how many friends he had made over the years. He reassured the audience that his short term goals were destroyed , but his long term goal is still the same. The speaker then said "it's been a privilege to work along side you " and with that the brother turned to the audience and waves goodbye as he walked off stage. The audience had to be quieted because our clapping went on so long. This no longer was an interview , it was a goodbye. Our hearts were saddened to hear this but if you saw this brother , he kept his smile on and a happy composure. It was a powerful experience.

Mom having an interview

On sunday , a sister was interview about a loss she had suffered in 2010. Her daughter passed away from cancer. As she began to tell the experience she broke down. The brother started to tell he experience and then she suddenly gained enough composure to tell the rest of her story about how the friends were there for her and how she managed to keep strong and focused. As she ended she was weeping again and said "I want to be there to see my Gina again ". A sister came to comfort her on stage and the audience once again thundered with applause. I thought about this situation and I knew the Holy Spirit helped her. She became calm enough to deliver most of her experience and then began to cry right at the end. It's like her tears were held back.

Well friends as you can tell just by these two experiences , this was an emotion packed weekend and it was so encouraging for us all to be together.

We hope you all are doing well and look forward to seeing you soon! We come back to the states to visit this SATURDAY!!!!! I can't wait to see you all and hear how everyone is doing. I'm so excited!!!

Nos Vemos,
Aaron

Our convention is rapidly approaching!

Hello friends! So over the last 3 weeks, I had what we think was the flu. It was sorta awful which is why I didn't get to post much! I've been hibernating and sleeping the whole time. But now that I'm feeling MUCH better , it's time to get back to work. We're in the final days of our district convention campaign and we're all really looking forward to it! A guagua packed with 30 brothers and sisters from our congregation will leave Thursday morning at 6 am so that we can be in the capital by 8 am to help out with the assembly hall cleaning. I'm so excited for this convention because I'm sure it will provide much needed encouragement.

We have a guest coming in tonight named Taijee. There's a really awesome story behind this and I'll tell you about it on the next post. But you'll be surprised to hear how this all worked out!

Below are some of the pictures of our vacation that meant to upload weeks ago. But I hope you enjoy them!

Nos vemos,
Aaron

Table witnessing and more!

Hey friends! I have soooooo much to talk about so I think I'll split it up into a couple posts. This first post is about the Manhattan Project hitting Santiago!!! For the past month or two we've been doing table witnessing from Monday- Friday. It's been so exciting and the results have been incredible. So many bible studies have been started and many magazines are being placed. So what we have to do is put in an application which says our availability and so on. This right now is only available to pioneers. My partner for the table is usually my Mom. It's been really great for us to be able to use our Spanish. We have the watchtower and awake in English and Spanish , so we have to be ready to give a witness in either language. We've met some really nice people through this and it has been a real blessing to be able to try this form of witnessing out.

So John has still been so faithful in following us around as we preach! Alejandro and I wanted Herby to meet the dog and Herby HATED him! But John stayed by Herby's side. This dog is so faithful to us and we haven't even done anything for it. But I like him a lot. I feel as tho he would protect us if any bad dogs attacked at all.

We went on our vacation and it was so nice! I'll talk more about that in the next post and I'll post some pictures then as well.

Below you'll see Herby and his new best friend. Then Monica, my mom and I at the table. Lastly , pocket is alive and well! He just got a bath and needed to dry out !

I hope you friends are doing well and I'm so excited to see you soon!

Nos Vemos,
Aaron