Thursday Night Meetings

So I wanted to tell you a little about our routine on Thursday night. This is a good week to do it since both David and Marty had a part on the meeting. 

It starts with song and prayer in Spanish then the English group gets up and leaves to a brother's and sister's house next door. We have the Congregation Bible Study and Bible Highlights in English under the covered driveway which is what the picture is of. We set up plastic chairs before meeting so that everyone has a place to sit. This is all very informal. Finn has a hard time because there is so much usually going on outside. The meeting starts at 6 pm and that's when it gets dark. Costa Rica is so close to the equator that we have 12 hours of light and 12 hours of night. By then the cows in the field across the street usually need to be moved to a field further down the road. The dogs are barking the cows are mooing and the mosquitos are biting and soon they are all in the street in front of the Kingdom Hall moving to their other pasture for the night. This is all part of life here but we are trying to listen to the information being presented! Last night I was hoping that things were calmer because Marty had the Bible Highlights on Ruth. We just started Bible Highlights in English the week before the assembly, so it was really encouraging to have all the comments presented in English so that I could get more out of it. He did a great job, I was really proud of him! Afterward we all had to run into the Kingdom Hall because David was doing the bible reading in Spanish!! He was perfect, one sister we all love told me she was looking for a mistake in his pronunciation but could find not a one. Everyone clapped afterward, he was new to the school here in Buena Vista. The school is all in Spanish and so is the information presented in the Kingdom Ministry, which is sometimes different material from that of the English Kingdom Ministry. Soo...last night was very encouraging to all of us! 

I also posted a few pictures from service today, we worked right on the beach. The kids played in the sand and we talked to all the English people renting houses on Playa Samara. Sometimes I have to stop and take it all in, I'm out in service on the beach in Costa Rica!!