This past weekend was absolutely lovely. We had a small group over after meeting Saturday, Sunday we decided to embark on our first day of our learning adventure attending a Spanish meeting, and wrapped it up by joining a dear family from our congregation out for dinner at a fabulous Southern Mexican restaurant.
We've decided to start attending one Spanish meeting a week in order to add Theocratic Spanish terms to our vocabulary as we endeavor to learn Spanish. In the ministry it is an abosolute necessity to be familiar with Spanish as for the most part all of those we speak to when canvasing, the families of the Deaf, and the Deaf themselves primarily use Spanish.
Attending some Spanish meetings when I was younger and our lovely brothers in Youngstown were struggling to start a Spanish group I remember the scattered feeling of not knowing for sure where we were, which paragraph they were asking a question to, and how in the world they could possibly read off big numbers so fast. I was pleasantly surprised to find now that we have been here over a year I was able to follow along just fine and actually focus because I wasn't having to scramble for anything that may sound familiar. Jehovah provides us with such wonderful opportunities to learn no matter what language group we may be in. It was such a joy to watch the young children comment, and see that no matter what language you are in it brings a smile to your face to hear one of our dear elderly friends state the answer under their breath loud enough for all to hear. What a blessing Jehovah's organization truly is!
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