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I feel devistated, yet upright, only thanks to Jehovah. My dear friend an i were on our way to a memorial for a brother two congregations down the road. A wonderful young spiritual brother. Cancer. I was at the hall to meet Paula. To go to the memorial, a couple of hours down the highway. I got a text while i was waiting. (I was early, for a change) A very dear pioneer sister, in her 50ʼs, at an hospital north of San Francisco, it was decided to pull the life support system. Iʼm still upset at the circumsrances that put her there. Two weeks ago she was on our Monday meet for service Zoom meeting. With a bottle of cough sryup she was given at the clinic she visited. By Wednesday, they took her out town in an ambulance. Before they could get her stabilized enough to even operate, she crashed 3 times. They got her through two surgeries, was on the ventelator. She was off it, long enough to talk to her mother and sister on the east coast. Ended back on the ventelator. So, we were getting ready to go to a funeral, before we left the parking lot at the hall, we get this text. And it was too much. We visited, cried, visited. A brother in our hall died a few weeks ago. His memorial is coming up. Heʼd been sick for some time. 77 years old. So, another widow for our little congregation. And, Bobby and Jerry… This is almost too much. But Jehovah has been doing his best to be here for us. And, he is. Here for us. Have you any idea how grateful and thankful i am? Our little congregation could use your prayer.

Feeling pretty good now. I've been concentrating more on my spirituality and less on family member's problems. just wanted to say HIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!! 😀

Have a good night, bro... we will meet in Paradise

August 29, the 66th anniversary of our wedding.

I’ve put quite a few letter writing templates from various brother and sisters in my congregation together in 1 google doc if anyone wants them. Here’s the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-32HmJ4kjwJ5gLlAgddrXQAhmUQLgWc8bhvhTXc5gTY/edit

My mother is getting close to the end of her Earthly journey... I'll miss her but I know she will be so much better with Jehovah and Jesus

The surgery i had yesterday was a success. I was TKO'd all day yesterday afterwards though. I aint feel that bad since i had covid 🥴.

I attended a ceremony for a sister who passed away recently. Cancer. In November last year, she was still pioneering 99 hours... She was really something. Strong faith.

A huge loss to the forum that PJDriver is no longer here. Will miss U!

Update on my wife's health: we spent most of Friday evening in the emergency room. In the end, it was diverticulitis. And she was much dehydrated. She was down a quart so they topped her off. That alone and had her feeling much better. She's now on a course of antibiotics and antifungals.

I don't mean to brag, but i took my son to the meeting today, it was his second time. Wasnt the best situation (Real fidgety and chatty) but i guess its the best he could do as a 4 year old that's not used to sitting still for long periods of time.

I have special news. We have a couple, fresh from that special school for kingdom publishers, ( cannot think of the proper name) Anyway, they are on their way here, and are attending our meetings by Zoom. We may have, 20 attending our meetings. And, with one elder moving on to his new assignment in the heavens, one, having to move out of our area, because of health issues, the pickings got lean, elder-wise. In fact, downright scary. Jehovah provides. Today, we have 5 elders, plus our new couple joining our congregation. Maybe 8 pioneers. I feel like Jehovah has given our little congregation wings!

Dear brothers,it is a beautiful thing to be back to you again,I have really missed your company very much having been away for some few days,I have been thinking very much about you and I want you to know that you mean so much to me, please know that.

When the GT start, let's all write our own day-by-day diary. This will be historic ! We will have to tell the resurrected about it.

I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes on February 18th. I had an A1C of 7.1. Today I had a blood test. My A1C is almost normal. It's 5.8. Something to be very proud of. I wouldn't have been able to do without Jehovah. THANK YOU JEHOVAH FOR NEVER LETTING ME DOWN>

I got in the water yesterday <3!!!! As a small joke I asked some of the brothers and sisters in my congregation how long do I have to wait for me to receive all the answers to questions I'll be asked in the future lol.

I spent the whole day at Bethel today. What an encouragement our dear, dedicated, hard-working Bethel brothers have given our congregation! I want to go there more often. I want to serve there, if it pleases Jehovah. 💖

Last Sunday's Watchtower is now one of my all time favourites. Felt like it was written just for me.

New appartment is confirmed ! Thank you Jehovah ! Now everything is ready for our moving abroad !

update my house was on fire yesterday. No electricity, phone, etc. JUs got a second online.

Brother, I have always enjoyed your passion for the truth, and your spiritual insight. You are a brother with strong, firm convictions, and you have no doubt touched countless people’s lives. You will be missed, brother! Elijah

Only in Jehovahs organization can you leave your dead ipad, in a place where you know you will not forger it, come back. It’s not there anymore. A brother says, i know it was there. Lets check. Itʼs in the “elders room”, being charged. That’s how we roll, brothers and sisters!

Funny experience. See The Good Land and myself have been on an adventure. When that tribe did major work on our house, a lot of things were boxed up. Some of our books still are. (Intended book cases, still don’t exist) Any way, my map booklet disappeared. I’ve looked and looked and looked, even thought of copying maps to have them at my fingertips. eBay? Yep. One for $79.00, and one for $59.00. I kid you not. But, there was a Chinese one for $10.00. I kept going back. No more English ones, (except those two, apparently edged with gold on the pages) I ordered the Chinese one. A map is a map. I figured turning it into English would be educational. Well, I am now the proud owner of one! (Not Chinese!) I was out in service and mentioned this saga to the brothers in the car. Julio said, “have them at the hall”. I’m still shaking my grateful head. I want to have it at my fingertips when what I’m studying starts mentioning things pertaining to travel… Jehovah did not forget how badly I wanted that booklet, and gifted me with one in the best possible way!

I'm a mentor now! 🙂 Anyone needing advice, I'm available for the nominal fee of a nickel (5 cents)*. 🧐🩺🧠🤓 *Free if you can prove indigence.

Today, my second daughter did her first talk and she did great Thank you Jehovah !

I told my son that we're going to a different Kingdom Hall today, and he was like "I dont wanna go to a different Kingdom Hall, there's a different Jehovah in there!!!" 🤣🤣🤣 My son is 4 and slowly starting to lewrn about Jehovah. Hes at the point where he thinks Jehovah lives at the kingdom hall him knows you cant see him (he did at one point ask me if different brothers was Jehovah though)

I just want to say thank you to the brother and sisters who put this site together... I have found it very beneficial and helpful! More than I'd like to admit! 😁 I'm so thankful for this provision. thank you, thank you, thank you. 😉

I really love the research that I have to do to keep up with some of the conversations here!

Made it down to 200 pounds, on the dot this morning! Been about 4 years since I've seen the 100s. Hope to see it tomorrow!! 😁 We have 3 others in our congregation losing weight too. It's so motivational!

Finally gave my first public talk!

Updated the Letter Writing Templates with Memorial and Special Talk letters. Free Letter Writing Templates

was going to do some stuff but now I'm just going to put off in tell next year

This is an update to my auxiliary pioneer goals. We recently had our circuit visit and I had the CO couple over for lunch. I expressed my goals and my fears and they encouraged me so much. I felt Jehovah's love. I am still petrified and nervous of failure 🤪. But I am leaving that with Jehovah. Long story short - I reached a stepping stone and am now auxiliary pioneering consecutively. And in the process with the CO couple's encouragement I am back in the Sign Language field. We have now 3 deaf ladies attending the meetings all of which commenced in the past month!!! All thanks to Jehovah! We have our assembly coming up and I have been asked to assist with SL interpretation and cleaning 🙂. I struggle with anxiety. But weirdly exposing myself to things have made me happier. When I am nervous I usually say to myself "okay Jehovah, let's do this". Just by saying that I don't feel alone. Still nervous and scared but at least it feels like Jehovah has my back when my nerves tell me to quit. Now it's all about strengthening and maintaining my new "rhythm" so to speak.

I did it! Took me 12 years to finally attempt to make this childhood dish that my mom loved to make. And boy it came out great! I'm ashamed I waited so long. Sausage & corn chowder.

My youngest son is n from TX. Sisters from my cong are hosting a Repast to honor the memory of my firstborn, who passed away Sept 18, this year.

Enjoyed a nice week long trip to Florida. But on the way home, what I thought was allergies is hitting harder than it should. Probably got COVID. 😔 I can't go on vacation anymore without catching something. This is at least the 4th time getting sick from vacation. 😭

We had a brother move into our congregation, and he commutes about 40 minutes (one way) to get here. He wanted to be put to use in a congregation that really needs help, and we are certainly putting him to work! Whatever we give him, he's up to do. His volunteer spirit is refreshing & encouraging. Praise Jehovah for such brothers!

My head goes in circles... My only day off from work and it gets ruined with the flu.

Last night at the meeting, i made a comment for the obesity vs gluttony gem, in which i exposed my weight and height. Had a few sisters come up to me admiring about how I just said my weight. Ladies...you won't explode if you say how much you weigh

I know it's a test, but i'm mad that my 'dream job' of over 10 years is finally able to be worked. Before the company wouldnt have any openings, and then my son was born so cant really work out of home, now i have the opportunity and nope, cant. But it's okay imma pass this test.

Up listening to music because I miss my son’s so so much! To be honest I feel dead inside but I know Jehovah understands, he lost sons too.

For those that need it...

I first discovered this forum in 2014 and even created an account, but I never really used it and eventually forgot about it. In 2022, I opened a new account, yet remained inactive until April 2024, when I finally began posting regularly. It took me ten years from my first visit to finally began posting and last month marked the first anniversary of my active engagement here.

Great day out in service today. One of my friends comforted someone who had just lost his daughter, she was in her 20s

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i cut my talk to short it was a 15-minute talk mad it a 6-minute talk. well everyone like it

The Daily Text reminded me of how "cheated" I felt/feel when I lost my Mom just after the pandemic lockdown. I didn't get the usual comfort God's people are known for during times of distress. I feel sorry for anyone who has to grieve that kind of loss alone. Jesus came all that way to comfort Martha and Mary, not required, but he knew they needed that "in-person" attention. I had a few friends in our congregation express their condolences over a zoom memorial we arranged for my Mom, and I got a couple text messages and a couple cards. Those were very appreciated. One sister even delayed texting intentionally, because she knew how hard it can be to have all the support/comfort in the immediate days after the loss but then to have nothing after that. That was so insightful of her. Others, I know, just couldn't be of much comfort to me, because they were going through their own distresses (loss, sickness, lockdown, etc.). Mom always said she was going to live forever. That she wasn't going to die. She put up a strong fight for over 20 years, battling multiple cancers on top of an inherited crippling neuromuscular disease. She made it 66 years despite all that and more. There's nobody like my Mom, I miss her everyday and it still hurts so much.

2021 to current Another update—maybe you remember some of this. My husband worked through the pandemic but lost his job once it ended. I got a part-time job in real estate and property management in BC. He found work again, but in 2023, the girls' mom passed away, which deeply affected our family. Our eldest struggled with suicidal thoughts, but with therapy, congregation support, and shepherding visits, we got through it. My husband eventually quit his job since I had the more stable career, and he now stays home with the girls. Recently, he’s been struggling with diabetes and had to go to the hospital due to cellulitis. I’m the main breadwinner, and sometimes I feel like a Weeble wobble—knocked down but popping back up. My service time took a hit, but Zoom meetings and supportive sisters keep me going. With real estate slowing down, I had to cut back at work, which freed up Fridays. Now I have three full days for service. After five long years of feeling stuck, I finally asked for and received some territory to work. The dog still lives! (Ecc 9:4) From 2016-2021.... In the last five years, I went from a full-time employee in a high-stress job, to found a tumour in my chest, then went back to work. Had a full hysterectomy (no wimpy laparoscopy for me, always gotta do everything the hard way) after they discovered a pumpkin sized growth in my uterus, my husband lost his job, twice. His Dad died, and mine had emergency surgery. My aunt died. Adopted two children, and then moved one province over and 1400 km away (it was a fantastic move) Got bit up by the family dog and needed 18 stitches, had to put him down because he had a brain tumour. Started homeschooling during a pandemic. I have to say Jehovah ❤️ is good. He's sustained me through one trial after another, and I haven't lost my sanity yet.

Some of the sisters had a luncheon today and i was invited. I was told that we were gonna bring our go bags to show. My chunky self thought they meant a to go bag to put left over food in 😩.

Feels nice to be back in Japan