Thirsty People...

A few English speaking people have been passed onto us recently.

One young Indian woman we visited came running up to the gate, so excited to see us...yes she was waiting for us to call. We weren't too sure what to expect...but she made it quite obvious that she wanted to study. A study was started, the following week she was so happy to have her first bible, she now prepares for her studies by looking up each scriptures and making a note of the page number so she can find it faster in our study....

After a week or two we were sent a request for a bible study slip from the branch...Frank recognised the name...it was our new study! In the week or so between her first visit and our following her up, she must have sent away the coupon for a study...no wonder she was ready to study the bible when we turned up at her door! Will keep that one and give it back as a memento when she gets baptised :)

Today she was even more happy to receive the new revised edition of the NWT...with all the extra features and the simpler English she was so happy...although the page numbers are a little different to the old one so threw out her preparation...but never to mind :-)



ANOTHER passed on call to us in the English cong, a foreign worker from Pakistan. Speaks English but reads Urdu...after printing out KN38 in Urdu to bring him, today we called...although he was working, his 3 flat mates also Pakistani Christians (only 7% of the country they tell us) they sat us down and ran off and brought out their bibles in Urdu and English. They were so so happy to read the kingdom news no.38 in their mother tongue. 

One of them seems to have read the Greatest Man book in Pakistan. Which is quite amazing seeing that the ratio of witnesses to population is over 200,000 to 1!

 We went thru some of KN38 together and their appreciation for us visiting them and speaking about the scriptures with them was clear. Life here isn't the easiest, they work hard, 6-7 days a week, with a tough boss, and their families are back in Pakistan where they live in fear of the Taliban. 
It was so surreal to be sitting with these men who's stories we'd seen played out on TV many times.
To speak about the bible made them so happy. But today they could see that Jehovah really is the God of all comfort.

Next week when we bring back the BH book for them they want us to stay for dinner with them. I wonder if it will be our first eating with our hand experience!