Almost Ready to Leave

We are all repacked. We got everything to fit. Now we just hope that we didn't go over the weight limit of what we can take with us tomorrow. We found out we have to be ready to leave here at 5:15 tomorrow morning. I don't know if I will be back online again today so this might be the last you hear from us in awhile. We are going to the meeting tonight at 6 o'clock. So we miss everyone, and we will see you soon! Bye!

Street Witnessing

Yesterday morning we washed laundry. Took advantage of the fact that Audrey has a washing machine. We were then invited to have lunch with Brother and Sister West, they live downstairs from Sister Audrey. It was good, we had grilled chicken, mashed potatoes, salad, chana and Coke.
At 4 o'clock we were picked up by Gary to go in service with a group from his congregation. First hour was house to house. I was with Gary and the first house he talked with a man for about an hour. It was a very nice conversation, the man just kept asking more and more questions. After that we caught up with the group, it was dark then and we did street witnessing until 8:30. Street witnessing was awesome!!! The pictures came out fuzzy but I'm still going to post one.
After witnessing we spent some time with Gary and his family at his house. We had a very good time. Wonderful family.
This is something Gary gave me that I wanted to share:

The trinity teaches that God asked himself to go to earth to save mankind.

Then he agreed with himself and volunteered himself to himself to offer himself.

Then God impregnated a woman as himself, with himself.

God prayed to himself and glorified himself repeatedly.

God strengthened himself and talked to himself.

Finally God forsook himself and sacrificed himself to prove his loyalty to himself.

While dead he resurrected himself so he could exalt himself above himself.

Then he sat at his own right hand and waited til he placed his enemies as a footstool.

Finally with Satan's forces defeated God would turn his kingdom over to himself

That all things would become everything to himself.

So we leave for Kato tomorrow. We have been buying up food and everything we can think of that we will need. Gary is picking more stuff up for us today. We are repacking our luggage and trying to make everything fit. We are only able to bring 280lbs with us tomorrow. The rest of our luggage will get send on a plane to us on Friday. So we have to figure out what we will need right away.
The pictures are of Terri and Audrey, Terri with a baby in field service, Joelle and Nikki street witnessing, and the group of us at the pool the other day.

Sunday

Hello, Yesterday was our first day in service here. We went out until about 11:30. I worked with a sister whose name was Amanda. I will post a picture of me and her. The rest of the day was spent at the pool. We met a bunch of other need greaters who were there for the day also. Today was the meeting at the stadium with the zone overseer's visit. We got there very early and we had nice seats under the roof. We were in the deaf section, so as it was getting close to starting we moved because they were running out of room for the friends who needed to sit in that section. Unfortunately, by the time we moved, all the other seats under the roof were taken, so we had to go way down below. It started raining. Me and Nikki are the only ones who stuck it out in the rain. We ended up just huddling with all our stuff under our umbrellas. We got soaked. The rest of our group went up to stand under the roof. I think they were the smart ones. I took a picture of Nikki in the rain. So the plans for the rest of the day were canceled due to the fact that it is still raining. We were going to go to the zoo and the gardens. Oh well, another time.

More Info

The more we find out about Kato, the more we realize is not there. We just found out that we have more shopping to do. We have to bring dishes. We have to buy another light because we were wrong, there is never any current there. We also have to buy a tarp because we have to build a shower outdoors. So it sounds like we're camping for awhile.

We're Here

We got here a couple days ago. Wednesday started out with us meeting the sister we are staying with. Her name is Audrey. We then visited the branch, got some groceries, came back here and then slept the rest of the day. Thurday we spent the day shopping, getting things we would need, we got hammocks(very important :) . We then went to the meeting of the Kitty congregation. Tomorrow we plan on going out in service and then going swimming at the international hotel. Sunday morning is the meeting with the zone overseer. We were told they are expecting about 10,000 in attendance. All of Guyana is invited.
Some people we have seen so far are Brother and Sister West, district overseer. Melissa and Troy, they are missionaries from the states, here for the zone visit.
Kato sounds interesting. It is more primitive than we thought. Terri is dying because she found out we have to use an outhouse. We had to buy 3 five gallon buckets to get water from the stream. We're not sure but we are guessing we'll have to wash our clothes at the stream. We were told to buy one lightbulb because there possible might be current. It is 2000ft above sea level so it is cooler than other places, that might outweight everything else. Everyone says it is beautiful there. I think we're going to have fun.
I will warn everyone that once we leave for Kato on Wednesday you will not hear from us. They have no internet, phone or post office there.

Finally....Leaving Today!

By tomorrow we will be in Georgetown. We will visit there for about a week. And then on to Kato, which is new for all of us. Justina is no longer traveling with us, because she is getting married. Congratulations for her! Traveling with me is Terri, Nikki, and Joelle. We are all excited and looking forward to our trip. Picture is of the 4 of us traveling together to Kato.