Sal-Om MOM,
I wasn't able to send in a report for the
last Newsbrief, therefore I would like to send
in a report in order to summarize developments and
work being done for the past four months.
The first couple months of this year was spent
mostly in moving from Izmir to Sakarya and adjusting
to the new situation. Now Niama and I live
with my parents. I do freelance counseling
mostly for students and families in order to
stabilize our financial situation. Niama is
looking to get a job to help support our expenses
and is also helping with updating the
Turkish
website.
As we settled down, the past couple months were
mostly spent working on the Turkish website.
There was a problem for some people in accessing the
website for an unknown reason. It still
remains to be a problem for some people, but the
website works properly for most (at least in
Turkey). However, I still do not have a
definite answer as to why this problem occurs.
When I do, I will share it with the Mission.
Besides the technical problems, the website has been
improved a little bit by the below additions or
updates:
- Translation of Prophecies page added
-
Temporary Categories in the Mission
page translated
- 2012 Feast
of Tabernacles page updated
- Complete
Universe and Man book translated
- Links are being added to the end of Tablets
to go to the next Tablet in line
- Most pages are being revised for grammatical
or spelling errors
Around 225 people made 309 visits to the Turkish
website in the past four months and spent an average
of 5 minutes on the site. 71 percent of these
were new visitors. The majority of these
visitors (40 percent) were from Istanbul/Turkey.
Other than these, I still continue studying the
Universe and Man book
in order to prepare a lecture for this year's Feast
Of Tabernacles. My brother and Niama are
helping me realize it more deeply by listening to my
mini-lectures during some of our daily walks.
Also, in the efforts to understand this material in
and out, all thanks to God Maitreya
made me see how too much intellectualizing of a
subject could become an obstacle in really realizing
its lesson. Hopefully all these efforts will
help realize the Grace of God more deeply and let
Him be the doer in the preparation and presentation
of this lecture. ATTG.
These are my news from Turkey for the first
quarter of 2012. All thanks to God for this
opportunity.
Unus
