[Maracaibo] During a November 
                2002 trip to Puerto Piritu, east of Venezuela, a Colombian initiate 
                decided to ask an old friend from Maracaibo to come and assist 
                with several video seminars being planned in the area. The friend 
                was so touched by Master's love during the seminars that she asked 
                if we would travel to Maracaibo to spread Master's teachings there. 
                Another sister from Lima, Peru, who had kindly helped us with 
                the seminars we had presented earlier in Bogota, Colombia, agreed 
                to come and assist in Maracaibo.
              Once more, from the first day, Master's love made all the necessary 
                arrangements go effortlessly and perfectly. An old friend took 
                us to various places around the city and we had soon chosen the 
                venue for our first video seminar. Everyone felt Master's blessings 
                in the event's warm atmosphere.
              Our second seminar was held in a conference room attached to 
                a holistic health center. And it too was very successful, with 
                the majority of the audience members staying on to learn the Convenient 
                Method and commenting on their beautiful experiences during the 
                transmission. The third fruitful conference was held at the Facultad 
                de Ingeneria at Zulia State University. Many people were so touched 
                by Master's teachings at the event that we also did group meditation 
                at a local college for those who had received the Convenient Method; 
                this session was very well attended and the owner of the college, 
                who had become a Convenient Method practitioner, offered the college 
                as a regular meditation venue.
              
Additionally, 
                another person practicing the Convenient Method, a professor from 
                Urbe University, offered her house, along with that of a friend, 
                as a place for group meditation. This made available three locations 
                to accommodate the large number of local people who wished to 
                continue their Convenient Method group meditation practice. 
              We left Venezuela charged with Master's divine love, feeling 
                hopeful that many spiritual seeds had been planted in the kind, 
                pure hearts of the local citizenry during this first trip, and 
                that soon they would bear the fruit of more and more Quan Yin 
                practitioners in the Maracaibo area.