In 1950, the year that Víctor Mejías got baptized, another young man in Caracas, Teodoro Griesinger, asked Ronald Pierce, who had recently begun his missionary service: “Explain to me the meaning of the number 666 in Revelation.” Teodoro had been left a large German Bible by his father and would read it from time to time. “It was not so much the past that interested me,” explains Teodoro, “but the future, things that were still to happen, mentioned in Revelation.” Satisfied with the explanation given by Brother Pierce, he agreed to Brother Pierce’s proposition to study the book “Let God Be True.” The book was in Spanish, Teodoro’s Bible was in German, and both teacher and student were speaking English. Progress was rapid. By 1951, Teodoro had enrolled as a pioneer, the following year he accepted an assignment as a special pioneer in Puerto La Cruz, in 1954 he graduated from Gilead School, and then he took up service as a circuit overseer in Venezuela.

Below: Nathan Knorr (left) with Teodoro Griesinger as interpreter, in 1962