Thursday, January 14, 2010

Spanish presentation

The sun has finally pierced through the clouds, although we hear another storm is on it's way. It just proves how messed up our climate really is... normal weather doesn't exist anywhere anymore.

This morning we went out from door to door. The group starts at 8h30am and we stop around 11am. People eat a big meal at lunch and then it's siesta time until around 2pm. Some shops close, others don't. We are mostly looking for english speaking folks so we don't really use a spanish presentation, although Tania and I only had a Spanish Bible, so we had no choice to use it and the people just corrected our pronounciation. Honestly, we feel very nervous, it's not the people, but us not feeling familiar with the relaxed customs (if that makes any since). Like today, the family was quite wealthy they had servants and asked us to come in their lavish lobbey/kitchen and they cooked as we spoke. We were totally in their space, how long do you stay and talk?

Here's a short spanish presention as requested: !Hola! ?Como esta? Me llamo(pronounced y-a-mo, meaning my name is: Karen)
Estamos compartiendo estas revistas basadas en la Biblia.
(We are sharing these magazines based on the Bible)
La Atalaya (Watchtower) anunciando el Reino de Jehova (the J is like an H sound)Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom.

Merci pour toutes mes copines francaises qui m'ont ecrit des petits commentaires, cela me fait chaud au coeur a savoir que vous suiviez nos aventures. En fait, cela me donne de l'energie a continuer, car je me dis que l'experience va pouvoir encourager plus qu'une personne. Si vous avez des questions, s.v.p. n'hesiter pas, je vous en prie...

4 comments:

  1. I just received unofficial news from GM, via friends of friends, about our brothers in Haiti.
    Bethel building is intact, it shook at little bit but everything stayed intact. That morning they received a months supply of gas, so they can function for quite some time on generators.
    All Bethelites, missionaires, MTS students, CO's accounted for..reports are coming in from Port-au-Prince, many have lost their homes and KH's are damaged. 11 reported deaths of brothers & sisters and the number is climbing.
    Dominican Republic brothers had 2 relief trucks lettered humanitarian aid at the border first thing this morning. The Bethel doctor & some other doctors are treating bros & sis at the assembly hall. We'll continue to pray for them & hope that the casualties aren't too great. Please be safe.

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  2. Bien sure Chloe que cette experience m'encourage. A tous les jours je passe par ton blog et meme 2 fois plutot qu'une.
    Comme dit ta maman soit prudente.
    jo

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  3. Hey Clo
    So proud of you, you are such a trooper! I guess you are glad I made you spend 7 extra dollars to buy baby cloths! Keep up the hard work + the fantastic blog. Jeff says hi to Pete. Oma says hi too, she could not figure out how to send a comment! We love you! Thea and Jeff

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  4. I have enjoyed reading your experience. We are traveling to utila in may and are looking for the kingdom hall meeting times etc. Do you know the meeting schedule and if the meetings are in english or spanish? We are in the spanish congregation here in Atlanta, ga, but we speak both languages and would enjoy supporting the congregation while we are there....my email is Craig_mauldin@comcast.net
    Any info would be appreciated.
    Thanks,

    CM

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