Bolivia

Preaching in the Amazon region of Bolivia is both challenging and rewarding. A group of ten pioneer brothers and sisters​—squeezed into a small outboard motorboat packed with tents, cooking pots, and many boxes of Bible literature—​traveled about 500 miles [800 km] on the Beni River from Rurrenabaque to Riberalta. They visited more than 70 isolated communities and placed over 800 books as well as brochures and tracts. They demonstrated about 700 Bible studies to interested people and returned to conduct studies with more than 200 of them. When the Witnesses were leaving the villages, a comment they often heard from people was, “Can you stay and study with us just a little more?” In one small town, a man was very insistent and was upset that the Witnesses were leaving, because he wanted to keep studying with them. He said: “You have cut down the tree. Now you need to carve and polish it.”

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Enjoying the “Watchtower” Study on a motorboat