Jol Tulija Part 4 – San Jose

 

San Jose is the second closest village to Jol Tulija. A quick ride by car or truck. The truck in the photo is owned by one of the many unbaptized publishers in the congregation. Did we mention that most of the congregation are unbaptized publishers? They are at every meeting and support service zealously...this day would have been a typical day in the fields for these brothers. However, they responded well to encouragement earlier in the week to help us finish covering San Jose with the convention invitations before we run out of time. So 10 of us piled into the truck and headed up the road to the rugged village of San Jose, lots of hills and mud this day, it had rained the entire night before.

This is another typical home.

 

 

 

This was our lunch spot, the front porch of a Bible students home with the benches from the back of our truck. The meal was another potluck of course, we are starting to enjoy them.

 

See the rugged muddy terrain. No real driveways, as no one has vehicles, just foot paths. We wore our rubber boots! Glad to have them with us. We did not take notes of any kind, and frankly I don’t know how we would have. There are no names to the “streets” but the government did paint numbers on each home. You see a narrow path and just keep trekking through the hills and keep finding more homes. Finally you have to ask the householder if there are any more homes or you could just keep going...some foot paths belong to the pigs so they lead nowhere.