Memorial

So this was my first experience at a Memorial in a foreign country and wouldn't you know, it was exactly the same. We had a 133 people with about 40 people sitting outside. There were chairs set up outside and a speaker system. All the attendants had to wear suits and i could tell they were all dying from the heat! Here's something funny, Marty was the greeter because he is so smiley and speaks Spanish so well. Yes, I'm being sarcastic, but it was great to see him step out of his comfort zone. The talk was only in Spanish but by now we can at least understand way more then we can speak. Jair gave the memorial talk, he is the Coordinator for the Buena Vista Congregation and a Special Pioneer all at 25! He is the one in the middle between Marty and Kevin in the picture.

Tonight was the first night that we used the new song book!  Costa Rica just received their shipments of the new song books a few weeks ago. We practiced the 2 songs to be sung at the Thursday night meeting last week so that we didn't all sound terrible at Memorial. Of course, we had to sing them in Spanish. A lot of work went into preparing the Kingdom Hall for Memorial and it was a great privilege to feel like we had a full share in the process from cleaning to painting. It was an experience that we will not soon forget.