Life Story/We Leared Never to Say No to Jehovah -AS TOLD BY KATHLEEN LOGAN - A BATH WITH A DIFFERENCE

At one circuit assembly, I faced an unusual challenge.  We were staying in a brother's home right nexts to the Kingdom Hall.  Since the Amish consider bathing very important, the circuit overseer's wife prepared a bath for us. Harvey was too busy, so he asked me to go first.  The bath consisted of three recepacles.  A bucket of cold water, one of hot water, and an empty basin.  To my surprise, the circuit overseer's wife had placed them outside  the house in direct view of the Kingdom Hall where brother's were helping with the preparations  for  the assembly.  I asked her for a curtain of some kind. She brought me a sheet of transparent plastic! I considered retreating into the shadows behind the house, but there geese poked their heads through the fence, ready to nip anyone who got too close. I thought to myself: the brothers are too busy to noticwe that I am taking a bath.  And I don't bathe,  they will be offended.  Let's get on with it! So I did.

LITERATURE FOR THE AMIS

Harvey realized that the Amis brothers were struggling to prepare spiritually because many were illiterate and they had no literature.  Since the Amis language had recently begun to be written using Roman characters, it seemed practical to teach the brothers to read their own language.  This was a huge undertaking, but eventuallythe brothers were able to study by themselves. Amis literature became available in the late 1960's, and in 1968.  The Watchtower in Amis began to be published.

However, the government restricted publications that were notg in chinese.  So to avoid problems, the Amis Watchtower was circulated in various forms.   For example, for some time, we used a dual-languae Manarin-Amis edition of the Watchtower. If anyone was curious, we were ostensibly teaching the local people chinese.  Since then, Jehovah organization has supplied much Amis-language to help these dear people learn Bible truths. - ACTS 10:34, 35. 

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