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We have just travelled today from Lake Como, Italy through to Switzerland and we are now staying in Austria tonight. Thats the latest on our location.
The Internet at our Hotel in Austria is fantastic so i have uploaded all of my photos right upto date, be sure to checkout Spain, Italy, Ireland and France.
Ciao and Love to All
Justin, Mark and Julie
Sorry all for the lack of information on where in the world we are. It has been hard to locate internet in Spain and France. We spent a week in Spain at a place on the coast called Miami Platja, it was great weather, the beach was fantastic aswell. We met the brothers and sisters there and were able to get the meetings in english and also spend some time in the ministy. Continue reading
Well I’ve been busy snapping away on holidays, and theres loads to see. The photos are now available by clicking on the gallery tab above. Continue reading
It is a very early start to catch our flight to
This photo was taken while i was out witnessing with Gavin and Gemma.
We stopped by a little park and walked up the gorge, it was so tropical that i thought for a moment i was in North Queensland.
Taken as a long exposure on a tripod, i was quite happy with the result.
To the tune of 747 jet engines the plane left the Sydney runway, it was a great feeling to finally be on the way to New York. I knew I was in trouble when my knees touched hard up against the back of the seat in front, and it hadn’t even been laid back in to recline.
This was going to be arduous and uncomfortable… the time was passed with a movie marathon, I lost count after ten movies. Continue reading
An e-Commerce website i’ve been working on for a while, almost ready to go live.
Momentz – The Artist Framers & Digital Photograph Canvas Printers
Well err… excuse me for being so like, so five minutes ago… but i’ve just loaded up a Google Maps plugin for WordPress called Geopress, its good gear, works well with the K2 theme/plugin once you apply a few small changes to the CSS styles.
Well its been awhile since I last posted… what can I say? I guess we’ve just been having to much fun. To tell you the full story we had some smashing times with the Brothers and Sisters in Acapulco congregation. Both out in the service and also the association at other times. On our last saturday night there they organised a Latino dance party for us… to try and teach us some dance steps. It was so much fun and we all had a blast.
We spent the morning till 11am packing up our stuff. We’ve had the best time here in Oaxaca staying with Forrest. Continue reading
Monte Alban means White Mountain, Why? because the mountain is covered with a small tree (shrub?) that when in bloom with it’s white flower turns the entire mountain side white in its glory. Continue reading
This morning I had previously arranged to work Brother Emmanual in the english Oaxaca congregation. The territory is quite large and especially for the english speaking congregation, so that often means alot of traveling time is involved to get from one end of the territory to the other. We had fun witnessing in a nice part of Oaxaca with clean cemento roads and tidier looking homes. We were covering the territory looking for people who were not previously at home and who spoke english. We didn’t find anyone except a man who’s girl friend spoke english (she wasn’t at home), so we left the latest Awake & Watchtower magazines. Continue reading
Informal witnessing was the objective and goal of our ministry this morning. Simply to approach people in the market places and speak to them. Initially we were to speak to them about general things like “where are you from” and so on… trying to also briefly tell them about the Good News of Gods Kingdom. And also invite them to attend the meeting this coming sunday. Continue reading
We meet for field service this morning at 9am. The circuit overseer took the group with 33 in attendance. Today the focus was on the business territory around the Oaxaca City Zocalo (City Centre). I had the privilege of working along with the CO working business to business. The main focus is to find english speaking people, we came across a Mexican man about 20 years of age working in a Cantina, a bar that just sells spirits eg.. taquila, mezcal and more. He accepted two brochures and we left it at that but made sure we got his name and work address so he could be called on again. Continue reading
Its great to attend and spend the week with a congregation on the week of their Circuit Overseer’s visit. Continue reading
It was absolutely freezing this morning, we arrived with only shorts and T-shirts on as we were accustomed to the weather in Puerto Escondido. We called forrest from the autobus station and he came and picked us up. Continue reading
This is our last day in Puerto Escondido. It is kind of hard to tear ourselves away from this place. We have found a groove in the congregation and in the accommodation. Anyhow I am looking forward to getting to Oaxaca for some solid spiritual food in english. Continue reading
We woke early from a beautiful nights sleep in a big matrimonial bed, as they call them here. It was too early for my liking, 7:30am in the mañana. Why? Who knows, I guess the intention was to go surfing at the crack of dawn… yeah right. The Kahuai boys had stayed up late drinking beverages watching a massive tropical thunderstorm out over the sea (the first rain we have seen so far). I wish that I had stayed up and got some photos but I was wrecked from driving through many small Mexican villages that day, and also over at least a 1000 topes (speed bumps) in search of the perfect wave. Continue reading
I had good intentions of going out in the service this morning, but they didn’t happen mostly due to the fact that I couldn’t find a meeting shirt that didn’t stink. The heat is killer here… I can only seem to manage one wear out of a shirt and it is destroyed. Ashley holds the record at three wears out of a single shirt… no way for me, for one thing I couldn’t stand to sit beside myself. Continue reading
After a late night up talking with the guys I must say I wasn’t overly alert this morning. However we went witnessing, I was joined up with Brother Jorge and Jadiel. We had fun together but I think alot of the time the joke was on me. Both seem to take great delight in trying to set me up with a local sister in the congregation. I keep saying “Escuela Entrenamiento Ministrial” and that seems to keep them quite for at least 5 minutes. But it’s still a great joke for them. Continue reading
Servicio this morning with Brother Jorge and jadiel (as a threesome), it was good fun. I think I understood a lot more spanish this morning, at least it is certainly easier to to ask questions and reply, also to ask how to say something in spanish… Como se dice en espanol? How do you say in spanish?. Continue reading
I spent the entire morning in the internet shop, I needed to upload the latest photos on to my website. Photos of our trip to the Chorro Water Fall as well as the Special Assembly Day and also my brush with Australia’s surfing elite Taj Burrows. Ashley went witnessing this morning and did return visits and bible studies with Brother Jorge. Continue reading
Tuesday witnessing group was a cosy number of seven. I worked along with Brother Edgar this morning, he works as a taxi driver… that’s at least one of his jobs. We only did three doors the whole morning and spent about 30-45 minutes at each house. People do genuinely seem to have a conscience spiritual need even if it maybe miss guided. Continue reading
After a big day yesterday we slept in till 9ish. Ashley wanted a pastry breakfast so we went to Carmen’s Cafecito for breaky, this suits me just fine since they do a killer “tortas de creme de cacahuate” in english it is a peanut butter sandwich with sliced banana on top. Continue reading
Today we were invited by Brother Filemon and his family to go on a congregation day out to some water falls past a town called San Pedro (Saint Peter) The water falls are called “Chorro” meaning in spanish “to gush out”. We left at 8am because it is quite a long drive to the falls. The road was cemento all the way to San Pedro but from Pedro to Toro Falls was some of the roughest dustiest roads that I’ve yet travelled in Mexico. It took about and hour and a half to get there. Continue reading