Where do I start? Cherrie and I have been in a town called Imbert for the last 4 1/2 years. Right after getting married we were in a small congregation called El Ranchito for a year. The C.O. asked us to move to a nearby congregation to help out. We did and have been here ever since. The congregation here in Imbert is a bit bigger than El Ranchito. We average about 30 publishers. In the year and a half after we moved here a lot of foreigners moved in, and at one point we had 12 foreigners here in our little congregation. Some were from Canada, California, New York and even Pennsylvania. Now the only foreigners in Imbert are Cherrie and I, and the special pioneer couple who is from Austria. There is also a single brother here who was assigned after graduating from the single brother's school.
In the small towns like this it can be hard see a lot of growth because a lot of people end up moving to bigger cities because of work. There are very few jobs in Imbert and even in the short time we've been here two different families have moved to Puerto Plata. Puero Plata is the main city of this province. It's about 30 minutes from Imbert
In Puerto Plata there are a lot of witnesses. There's an English congregation, a Sign Language congregation, a Haitian Creole congregation and at least 10 or 11 Spanish congregations. The English congregation and several of the Spanish congregations have been formed just in the past few years. When I first came 6 years ago there were only about 25,000 witnesses in the country. Now we are up to 35,000.
The foreign language fields have especially been growing in the last 4 years. Now there are 6 six English congregations in the country. There's also two Russian groups, an Italian group and at least two Haitian Creole circuits. Three years ago when there was more help in our congregation we were able to take one of the societies Haitian Creole language courses with the purpose of trying to start a group here in our territory. When some of the brothers moved away we had to refocus our efforts back to Spanish, but the course really helped us to reach more Haitians in our territory.
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| Haitian Territory |
There are also some pictures of different places in our territory mixed in.
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| Our dog Lili |
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| She's not spoiled... |
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| From our kitchen |
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| A beach here on the north coast. |
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| The house of some brothers in our hall. |
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| at our assembly hall |
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| Maimon Bay, 20 minutes from Imbert |
Below us in the picture is the city of Puerto Plata. This is at the top of the mountain behind it. There is a cable car that takes you to the top.
