This past week was FULL of activity for Cuenca Chinese! We had the visit of our first ever Chinese Speaking Circuit Overseer. I mentioned him in a previous blog...the one who's territory is foreign/indigenous language throughout the whole entire country. He'll be serving (now at least I have my facts straight) English, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Haitian Creole, Chapaala and Shuar - a total of 7! We were able to spend lots of time with him and his wife being that our group is so small but that was a definite blessing. The week started with service Wednesday, meeting Wednesday night (Chinese BS, Highlights & School then we had the rest of the meeting in Spanish - since we're only a group we didn't have a service talk given by the C.O.), Service Thursday and Friday, Pioneer Meeting Friday night, Service Saturday morning and then Saturday night a Chinese public talk, abbreviated WT and concluding Chinese talk. This last meeting started at 8:45 p.m. in order for the Chinese people to close up shop and make it in time so it last until 10 p.m. - I was TOTALLY fried by the end but we were happy to have 4 Chinese people there!
Now as you can already see from the video we have more very exciting news! One of the Chinese girls gave her first ever student talk - just in time for the C.O. visit. It was truly heart-warming and a privilege to experience.
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| Our current group plus a few visitors from the Chinese Congregation in Guayaquil and of the Circuit Overseer and his wife. |
How exciting Damaris! What a privilege to be there for the first c/o visit and new student talk. Thanks for the update.
ReplyDeleteAwwwwww...what a cute group!!! How cool to have a new student in the school! You should all be sooo proud! Keep up the good work and glad you enjoyed the special week of activity.....and now maybe you better get some rest!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the cool post...loved it!
C-ya in 6 weeks!
Awesome privilege that you can be a part of all of that! And wow what a challenging assignment for that CO and his wife. Incredibly encouraging post - thanks for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteAwww, DD, it's so awesome to see the two Chinese students in skirts ~ and seeing you made me want to cry!!! You look wonderful. I miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!
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