I thought I'd put up this picture from our Memorial observance. It was taken a little before the program began, so there is still a number of empty seats. Also I don't know as you will be able to make out too many of the faces, but those who know, you can see Rosta sitting there in the middle.
Obviously the recent highpoint of our time here has been the Memorial. We had 129 here Monday evening. To put that into a little context, we had 113 last year, we have an average attendance on Sunday of about 60, we have about 35 publishers working here now. Wendy has been conducting a study with some on Kahn Hill, and about 10 came from there. We might have had more as we had arranged for two buses to bring ones in from Wauna and those parts, but only one bus came. We have not been back out there yet to hear of how many say they came, but were not able to catch a bus.
Probably one of the more outstanding individual experiences was that of a man named Danny that Compton has been studying with out in Settlement. He had an accident a few years ago and was completely bed-ridden for some time. He has gained back a little use of his legs, but still hardly ever goes out of his house. He had expressed a strong desire to attend, so Josh went out on one of the bikes and was able to bring him. He really enjoyed being here, and he was one of the last to want to leave. He has expressed a desire to come to the Special Talk on the 15th.
We had been able to cover all of our close in territories, except for a small part of Wanina, and some river territory in the two weeks of the invitation campaign. This included keeping track of all not-at-homes during the first week and either returning when they were home, or going back during the last week and just leaving invitations.
Having had the Memorial with 129, we have pretty well decided we will hold the SAD program at the Kingdom Hall this year. It will save a lot of work of having to clean and prepare some other location, but it will involve some work here. If we are going to have around 120 here for the whole day, we are going to need to provide additional toilets. We can’t just arrange for a couple of porta-potties to be dropped off for the day. Also we are still hoping to figure out a way to perform the baptism on-site.
Other newsworthy events include the departure on Wednesday of both Wendy and Mitch, Wendy had been here six months, and Mitch five weeks. I mentioned to Terri that the next time we go to the airstrip to send someone off, may well be for ourselves. As usual, there was quite a number who went up to see them off, including a woman from Settlement, Sharon English, whom Mitch had started a study with while here. She had come to the Memorial as well.
One a less than pleasant note, Monday evening while they were at the Memorial, Wendy and Rasheeta had their place broken into and a number of things were stolen. It has not been a nice going away week for Wendy. She has also been quite sick on top of everything else. One of the things stolen was her computer on which all the files were that we had been working on in mapping out all the houses in the territory, so that project has suffered a setback.
The weather here has been rather overcast and rainy the last few days which is a blessing, since now is the time the sun is passing overhead on it’s way up north to you folks. I’m hoping to get a picture of a no-shadow moment, but we’ll have to see if the weather cooperates.
Probably one of the more outstanding individual experiences was that of a man named Danny that Compton has been studying with out in Settlement. He had an accident a few years ago and was completely bed-ridden for some time. He has gained back a little use of his legs, but still hardly ever goes out of his house. He had expressed a strong desire to attend, so Josh went out on one of the bikes and was able to bring him. He really enjoyed being here, and he was one of the last to want to leave. He has expressed a desire to come to the Special Talk on the 15th.
We had been able to cover all of our close in territories, except for a small part of Wanina, and some river territory in the two weeks of the invitation campaign. This included keeping track of all not-at-homes during the first week and either returning when they were home, or going back during the last week and just leaving invitations.
Having had the Memorial with 129, we have pretty well decided we will hold the SAD program at the Kingdom Hall this year. It will save a lot of work of having to clean and prepare some other location, but it will involve some work here. If we are going to have around 120 here for the whole day, we are going to need to provide additional toilets. We can’t just arrange for a couple of porta-potties to be dropped off for the day. Also we are still hoping to figure out a way to perform the baptism on-site.
Other newsworthy events include the departure on Wednesday of both Wendy and Mitch, Wendy had been here six months, and Mitch five weeks. I mentioned to Terri that the next time we go to the airstrip to send someone off, may well be for ourselves. As usual, there was quite a number who went up to see them off, including a woman from Settlement, Sharon English, whom Mitch had started a study with while here. She had come to the Memorial as well.
One a less than pleasant note, Monday evening while they were at the Memorial, Wendy and Rasheeta had their place broken into and a number of things were stolen. It has not been a nice going away week for Wendy. She has also been quite sick on top of everything else. One of the things stolen was her computer on which all the files were that we had been working on in mapping out all the houses in the territory, so that project has suffered a setback.
The weather here has been rather overcast and rainy the last few days which is a blessing, since now is the time the sun is passing overhead on it’s way up north to you folks. I’m hoping to get a picture of a no-shadow moment, but we’ll have to see if the weather cooperates.
