Lost in the Caribbean

Hello!!! It's been a hectic couple of weeks down here in the DR. We spent a weekend with Matt and Deborah. The first several pictures are of a day we spent preaching in far out territory with their congregation. It was a beautiful area called "Yasica" and is up in the mountains between Puerto Plata and Santiago.

This is the young brother I preached with. (He's the one on the right...)

A view of the little town of "Yasica".

This is the view as we are starting to head to "Yasica". What you see is the north shore of the Dominican along with the mountain right behind the city of Puerto Plata.

We had our circuit assembly this past weekend and two people from our hall got baptized. Gladys is on the left with her daughter and Luisa is on the right.

A view of the baptism area at our assembly hall.

Aaaaawwwwwwwwww!!!!

We hope to hear from you all soon!!!

Hello everyone! Well another service year has come and gone. A lot has happened this year and we're looking forward to more good things coming.

Here's an interesting piece of news from the DR... the first legal non-catholic wedding was celebrated last week. Up until now the only "preachers" allowed to officiate a wedding were catholic priests. Non-catholics had to go to the Dominican equivalent of the "Justice of the Peace" to be legally married. In 2010 a new law was added that allowed leaders from other religious groups to legally marry couples but as always in this country laws take a while to be put into affect is ever...

Finally the first non-catholic wedding was celebrated last week and guess which religious group it was? Jehovah's Witnesses. Here's the link if you want to read one of the articles that's on a Dominican newspapers webpage. It's in spanish though... :(

http://listindiario.com.do/la-republica/2013/8/29/290080/Una-iglesia-no-catolica-casa-a-primera-pareja

We started the preaching in public places. I made a little stand that we take early in the morning once a week to a bus stop. We've done it several times so far and still aren't sure of how successful it will be in our territory. We'll have to give it some more time to see. Below is a picture of Leandro posing in our hall with the stand before heading out with it for the first time.

Heading to the bus stop.

For the last week of the service year we took a little vacation to a resort complex not far from where we live. Several times a year they give great deals on the website www.cheapcaribbean.com for 19$/night with everything included. It's a really awesome deal, so if anyone ever thinks about coming for a visit....... it's a great place to stay. It's such a good deal that witnesses flock to it. Every time we've gone, there has been a lot of brothers. This time we counted at least 22. Other times there have been over 50. It's nice to be there and see brothers reading their magazines and even preaching to the resort staff. Here are some pictures from the trip.