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Richard Traub, who opened up the preaching work in Chile, and his wife Consuelo

“Sometimes I returned with chickens that Sister Traub always was glad to add to her flock in the hen house. Once I brought a young pig and she was really happy about that! Why? Well, the 1953 New York International Convention was announced, and Brother Traub wanted to go to it. So this pig would grow and be fattened and then sold to help with the travel expenses. Also, Sister Traub bought a lot of very small pullets to raise and sell.

“After some weeks Sister Traub came to my room early one morning with a worried look. Now what? She had found several of the grown broilers dead​—a plague! She came the following two or three mornings to tell me how many more had died during the night. The time to go to New York was much too short to start all over with new pullets, so what could we do now to help our oldest Witness brother in Chile to get to the convention? Sister Traub said to me: ‘Why don’t you write a letter to Brother Knorr and tell him about it?’ That I did. As a result, Brother Traub was called into the branch office and asked how much was lacking. Jehovah made the trip possible, and what a delight it was for him to tell us all about it when he returned to Chile!”