Hello to all:
This evening I have been working on trying
to clean up the membership records of the Horqueta Branch. I am trying
to identify in which neighborhood everyone lives, and then we will ask
members in that neighborhood if they know any / all of the people. We
can visit the inactive members and decide how to proceed from there. I
have found that nearly 100 members live or lived in Paso Ita, about 20
km / 13 miles from here. We used to have a group of the church there
but not any longer. We also have several memberships from the Tacuati
group (40 km away) but we are missing a bunch.
As I was
working on this project, I was reminded that here in this part of
Paraguay there are no street addresses or house numbers. So we have the
member’s name, the neighborhood in which they live, sometimes the
street on which they live, and then a description provided by the
missionaries. Here is a sample, and only a small sample, of these
descriptions:
- 2 houses from Hermana Dorothy
- Next to the football field
- 3 blocks from the church
- The last house on the street
- 1/2 block from the Duarte’s carpenter shop
- In front of the Cemetery
- In front of the rented chapel
- 2 blocks east of the Cemetery
- “we are waiting for the address”
- The yellow house
- By the pool, 2 blocks down, 3rd house on the left
- At the side of the stream
- The white house of wood, 8 houses from the corner
- 1/2 block North of the Assembly of God Church
Fortunately, the missionaries who are assigned to these areas usually have some idea where to start looking, but for us???????
Love you all,
Jerry
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