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I lost my sister-in-law on 5 March 2022. She was 89 and had dementia for more than a decade. She suffered adverse reaction to her 2nd Pfizer shot and still her younger daughter subjected her to a booster which resulted in her, been warded for a month. Her whole body was peeling off due to the rashes all over her body. At the hospital she contracted Covid. She was never the same after that and a month later she succumbed to pneumonia. All through the 2 days wake and the cremation rites the 2 daughters stoically maintained their composure. I'm trying to console them the best I can. Don't know if I'm doing it the right way. Covid prevents me from visiting them at their deceased mother's house. There is a gargantuan fight brewing over the bungalow. The mother had willed the house to the son but it seems that there is a 2nd will which was prepared when the mother was experiencing signs of dementia. Hoping the house goes to the older daughter who had taken the lion's share of looking after the mother together with 2 highly unqualified foreign nursing aids. Note : I'm the only one in my paternal family who is in the truth. Transcript : So let's focus on the most insensitive comment of all time and the one that I feel is the most harmful: "You need to move on. Get over it! Get on with your life." So what if instead of saying to someone, "Hey, stop talking about your brother," we said, "Tell me more about your brother who died"? What if instead of trying to fix people, we sat with them inside of their pain, and we let them tell us what comes next?

An Amazing Experience Experience from Warwick Bethel A couple was kayaking on the Bethel premises at Warwick and when they were pulling up their Kayak out of the water the sister noticed something brightly colored laying in the trees, she went over to investigate and it was a bunch of helium balloons with two notes attached. One note had a picture of a young girl and said “In Loving Memory of” and gave her name. The other note said this is my cousin, she went missing in June of 2020 and in January of 2021 her body was found. She went on to say that she misses her cousin everyday and thinks about her and she said in her note, “If you find this please write to me.” The couple actually did something more than just write back to the woman. They did research on her cousin that went missing and found out about her life and her family. Then our Brother made a shadow box that had parts of the balloons as well as a picture of her cousin and the letter she wrote. Our sister then composed a three page letter that started with “My husband and I serve at the world headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses and we found your balloons and notes after we were kayaking.” Then our sister went on to express her sympathies and wrote some personal details that they had learned in their research about her cousin. Then her letter went on to tell her about our wonderful hope that she will see her cousin again when God resurrects her back to life again on a paradise earth. The wife also included her phone number and encouraged her to text or call her. The couple wrapped up the gift of the shadow box with the letter and mailed it out to the woman and put a tracking number on it. They saw that it had arrived and 1 hour and half later the our sister’s phone rang. It was the woman and she was crying on the other end of the phone. She proceeded to tell our sister that she was on her way to work that morning and her boys called her and told her she got a package. She told them to open it up and the boys said, “Mom it’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you need to come home and see this.” She turned around and came home and read the letter and saw the thoughtful gift of the shadow box. She then called her physical sister who told her , “You call that woman and listen to everything she has to say.” The sister had a good conversation with the woman and since they have been texting and talking on the phone and having many good scriptural discussions. Here is an interesting part of this whole experience. The women lives in Canton PA, which is a FOUR hour drive to Warwick Bethel. The woman sent out the balloons on the anniversary her cousin went missing in June of 2021. Our Brother and Sister found it four days later. The angels had to be blowing hard to make sure those balloons reached the right place and the right people during a pandemic when our focus is writing letters to ones. Jehovah and Jesus and the angels are truly blessing our unique ministry at this time in history!!!! Verified by Danny and Lauren Fensom in Warwick Note:- I hope this is a real experience. I don't have any way to verify this other than put this on here and see if anyone else has heard of this or even knows the people who verified it from Warwick.

Hey, friends! So I wanted to show you my most treasured possession that I got as a gift for my baptism. I was baptized January 26, 2008. My teacher was one of the annointed (still alive and living in South Carolina), and she is such a great influence on me. One thing she held near and dear to her was her necklace of a Bird of Paradise (can either be the flower or the actual bird). She told me of an amazing story that during WWII when the Nazis would bring in Jehovah's Witnesses they would mock the friends by calling them "birds of paradise", since we talk about the paradise so much. Little did they know their insult was a compliment to the friends! So my teach told me, "I am a Bird of Paradise!" Before my baptism I got this exact same necklace as my teacher. And I was told that "I'm on my flight to Paradise".