One last post for 2014 - Why not, eh?!?!

I just posted this experience on Instagram, but I thought I'd go ahead and post it here too. And maybe add an extra detail or two.

Here's a picture of a family we studied with today:

Eunice, Rachel & Sergio

We had the BEST study with them. Charley started studying just with Sergio about 3 or 4 months ago. He taught him how to prepare, and now he prepares for his studies most weeks.

Then 2 or 3 times his wife Eunice has joined in since she's on vacation from working in a school.  

And this week their daughter Rachel joined in for the first time. I shouldn't be able to forget her name, eh?!

This was the first time my schedule worked out to be able to go with Charley and it made my day, week, month actually! December is a rather frustrating month for studies, since most people are too busy working or partying! So it was a delight to find a family who actually have more time to study in December because they're all off work and school.

All of them joined in and readily accepted what we studied about the condition of the dead. After the study they mentioned they'd been studying Chapter 10 in the Bible Teach book together, as a family, and learned about the angels and wicked spirits. (Yeah, they're doing Family Worship already!) When he mentioned that he learned that there are millions of angels, his daughter corrected him, and said "thousands of millions"! She was definitely paying attention - and that was in the footnote!

He also said that last night he went looking for a church to go to but couldn't find one open. I guess he wanted to confess his sins for the year or something. Then this morning he realized we had our meeting last night but he hadn't looked at the invitation Charley gave him! He said "That's what we get for not looking at things that people give to us!"

They can't come this Sunday but they decided that they'll come as a family next Tuesday night! Hopefully they will! It turns out they studied with a couple from Spain who were serving down here years ago, and they even went to a meeting when their daughter was really little and didn't let them concentrate! We showed them the video about the meetings and the wife commented that she remembered that about the hall, that everyone is very welcoming and don't look at you funny like other places she's been to.

So, we'll see what happens in 2015 with this family. Just shows that sometimes a seed planted can take a decade or more to start growing! 

Well, I'd say that's my last blog post for 2014. Thanks for wasting another year of your precious time keeping up with my ramblings!!!

Until next time...