This is not bragging, I’m just explaining how kind & merciful Jehovah is.

I’ve been very down & unmotivated for a few months.

I’ve been missing my 4 kids, & had other setbacks. Did hear from one tho’ which was very encouraging.

Today I did not have a partner & asked about six brothers at the Hall but all were busy. Went out with 2 brothers but worked solo (except for other help, as will soon become obvious).

At the very first door, met a mom & daughter (17 ?) who were busy cleaning but came to the door a little reluctantly anyway. Explained the Kingdom & made a presentation of the Teach book, showed all the blue pictures in front & suggested a return visit for a Bible discussion. Mom declined but daughter accepted.

Then was walking down the street looking for my partners, & this young back man (24 ?) came out of a secured & fenced apartment building. I was in the process of passing him by when I dropped my Bible & stopped to pick it up. (I rarely drop my Bible, ?? but I have been getting clumsy & forgetful.) 

By that time he had come out of the gate close by so I started talking to him. We greeted each other & he said, “Have a blessed day,” so i said, “Oh, you must be a Christian, & blah, blah, blah.”

Well, he took a magazine & we arranged for me to return on Monday to start a Bible learning program. I try to avoid the word “study” because it sounds like drudgery work to so many people.

I invited him to the meetings & he said the Tuesday nite Bible study sounded good. I said we had a nice congregation but that we had one problem.

“What’s that?”  

I said, “Too many white people. We need some pepper with the rice.”

He was staggering in the street laughing & I think he’s going to come on Tuesday. I’ll know better when I see him on Mon.

So I leave him & go down the street still looking for the 2 brothers. I unknowingly pass them while they are in a cul de sac & out of sight. I come to the next apartment complex which is open & decide to knock on the first door to ask if they had been there.

There’s loud Mexican music & I wait for the singer to take a breath to ring the bell, twice. I see a woman go out the back door but she can’t hear me because of the loud music. Then I see the 2 brothers back at the sidewalk & go talk to them a moment.

Then the woman’s son in the back of the house apparently tells her to answer the door. I turn around (I don’t know why, maybe i heard something,) to see the door open & her looking at me. So I go back & tell her who I am & what I’m doing & make a presentation. She’s stand offish at first but slowly warms up as I talk in a friendly manner. After about 5 or 8 or 10 minutes (I really have no idea because at this point I’m in “the Zone”) & she accepts a Bible study.

Then I link up with the brothers & we walk back towards the car. So now I’m 3 for 3 (all praise to Jehovah God). One wouldn’t come to the door, so i won’t count that one & ruin the math. 

On the way, there is this couple going down the street with a shopping cart.

Now it’s obvious to anyone with half a brain that they’re homeless, but I’m totally oblivious & blind to this because I’m having a really wonderful time right now & just want to talk to more people. We have a nice conversation & they accept a magazine but I can’t follow thru because they tell me they have no address or phone because they’re homeless, which comes as a bit of a surprise to me. We part ways in a very friendly manner.  

I rejoin the bothers who have been patiently waiting for I have absolutely no idea how long & we go make some return visits.

Well it was just a great & wonderful day which I would have completely missed if a brother & a sister had not encouraged me to go out when I really just wanted to stay home & mope about & be down all by myself.

Now i have all these obligations & can’t stay home this next week or for the foreseeable future.

And I’m absolutely convinced that all this happened because JH wanted to help me personally, in spite of all my many failings, which since it’s such a nice day, why spoil it? So I won’t mention them any further. 

Sincere Agape to all,

Michael Kohloff