The days are getting hotter

It feels like each day is getting hotter and hotter outside. The temps have been in the high 90s this week. Which makes a 6 hour service day seem like a 10 hour service day at home. It is only going to get hotter too up until May when rainy season will start.

 

Both Brian and I got a few calls this week in service. It is really hard from having lots of calls and a study to starting at scratch. But slowly we will build up our call base. In this area it really feels like you have to take a different approach to service. At home you need to tell people why you are there within the first 10 seconds. Here you have to chat a bit and then get into the truth. The CO encouraged us to become people's friends then slowly bring in the truth. Both Brian and I wanted to work on our informal witnessing so this has been perfect for that. One afternoon after territory we decided we would just go into the town and make conversation with people. It is a bit awkward at first but you slowly get the hang of it. We met this really nice girl at a fruit stand. She grew up in the States and Germany. She asked what type of volunteer work we were doing down here and we were able to give her a really nice witness. Only thing was someone had talked to her earlier and already left her something to read. Guess everyone in our hall is trying to put informal witnessing into practice :)

 

We have a huge mango tree in our yard that hangs over part of our house. So at first I thought how cool is this we have a mango tree in our yard. However when the mango are constantly falling on your tin roof it is not so cool I decided. Thru out the day and night you will hear a huge bang that will make you jump. Not sure I will ever get use to that one. I think I will be pretty excited when mango season is over.

Here is the beach that is a 5 minute walk from our house.

 

 

 

 

Brian's new favorite study spot.

It is never quiet at our house. We have our neighbors chickens and dogs which think they live at our house, monkeys that are constantly howling, horse tours going down our road, cows on the road, men selling fruit super early in the morning and a lot of random people that like to walk thru our yard. We also have a 3 foot iguana that keeps visiting too. Brian likes to refer to it as Godzilla. I don't think I have ever seen an iguana so big before. Here is a picture but it is hard to show how big he is. His tail goes out of the picture.

 

 

And  a pretty sunset to end this post