Jehovah-Jireh

So here we are nearly at the end of our journey. And what a journey it has been! We fly to New York on Saturday, and spend a couple of days with Michelle and Brandon (see earlier blogs) our lovely new friends that we met here. Can't wait to catch up with them! Then we arrive back in England on Tuesday. So when we see you at the convention that weekend, we might not be quite with it... Please blame the jet lag!

Our lovely studies who fed us lunch :) 

The title of our blog, Jehovah-Jireh, means 'Jehovah Provides' or 'Jehovah Sees To It', and this really 

reflects not only the past three months, but particularly the last few days. Being the typical 

blondes/afro that you know we are, we accidentally forgot to assess our kitty money earlier, so we 

had somewhat of a revelation when we counted out what we had left for our last week in Guyana...let's just say tight! There is no bank for two hours so we don't have access to anymore funds. It reached a real low when we were all sat round the kitchen table rationing eggs and brain storming meal ideas to eat with rice. Isn't it true though, that it's times like these when you really see Jehovah's hand in matters. 

We will just list a few things that have happened since our budget count on Thursday.....

• We even had to work out our bus money but I think we have only got two bus journeys since Thursday as brothers and sisters have been passing just at the right time and offered us lifts. It has even given us bonus treat money to buy rocky road ingredients (a real essential here!!)

• Amy went outside to pick a mango from our tree, and unfortunately there were none. Literally five minutes later, her study popped round with a huge bag of mangoes and loads of other treats.
• We were so so hungry and there was nowhere to get any lunch, we were toying with the idea of cancelling our last study to go home and get food, but we thought wed power through with Jehovah's help. When we got there, the study only went and prepared us lunch!!
• We have been invited out for tea twice this week, plus we really wanted an avocado but didn't manage to get one, then a brother just randomly gave us two HUGE avocados, enough to feed us several times!
• One day, it was 10.30am and we had a whole day of studies and walking in the intense heat, and the prospect of it seemed a bit overwhelming. Anyway, we managed to do it and finished at 7, later than we anticipated! Jehovah gives the tired one power!

So as you can see, Jehovah really does provide when you need it the most.

Here is some more of our week:

We had a fab trip to the lakes with our lovely next door neighbour and their family, and our studies :)

The new jw.org sign outside our hall, exciting times!

Usually we are on the river on Tuesdays but when we arrived at the dock we found there was only us 'novices' and no one who could really drive the boat. But rather than be deterred, brother Paresram said to us we will just walk down the river side instead- where there's a will! We had a brilliant day showing many people who barely get reached the Bible Study videos and the campaign leaflet. 

Here's Amy and Daisy braving the very wobbly bridge, probably the worst one we have seen so far. Amy and Daisy have a bit of a thrill factor when it comes to things like this. They would rather try it and fall in than not try it at all! 

Here are two little girls who really enjoyed the video. They told us afterwards that they remembered us coming to visit their school a few weeks ago! 

It has been a lovely privilege for us all to help out on the school whilst we've been here. It's been a great way to get to know the sisters better.

Here is the lovely Joelle. She will be following in her mum's footsteps, a future pioneer in the making :) 

This is Andre. Daisy and Naomi study with his two sisters, and Andre had his own little study with Amy for the first time this week. Andre, and his sisters who are 14 and 15, come to the meetings all by themselves. The oldest girl has just asked to go on the school.

Finally, look what we found in Charity! You have to look quite closely at the sign above the door.....

Thank you so much once more for taking the time to read and keeping up with our adventures. We are going to do one more blog post before we leave so you can meet some of the wonderful brothers  and sisters in our hall. So keep checking :):)