Oh, but first I have a cool story to tell. During the invitation campaign in Spanish I talked to this very polite young dad who sounded very interested in attending the convention. So, yesterday we were out around there and I saw there was a car outside. So I went to find out if they'd gone, and to offer them something released at convention. His wife was home, and it turns out they went!!!!!!! They were only there about an hour, but hey, they went!!! After they got out of church around 1pm, she said they headed down there! So she accepted a publication, and the sister I was with is going to return on Saturday with her husband! Yay!
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| We were tied into the International Convention in Atlanta for some talks. The three biggest conventions were Indianapolis, Houston & Atlanta, all had over 25,000, but Indianapolis was the biggest! |
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| Dear friends from Columbus, Indiana Spanish |
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| These young ladies grew up so fast! |
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| Mark & Mitsuko serve in Guatemala, but they're in the States at the minute. They stayed with us for the convention. |
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| Charley's sister and hubby invited us to dinner with some ex-Bethel coworkers. Jason & Xiomara are now special pioneers in Kentucky, and just had the privilege of going to the Bible School for Christian Couples last year. |
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| Saturday morning, ready for a day of learning |
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| I was so excited to see these girls. They used to live next door to my in-laws, and now one of them moved back to Puerto Rico, so it was exciting to see her back in Indy for a bit. |
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| Claudia is in English but very kindly came to work at the convention |
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| With my buddy Cherub. She's moving to Nicaragua at the end of the month! |
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| The section where the 470 baptismal candidates had been sitting! |
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| The baptism pools were busy most of lunch! |
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| With some dear Argentinian friends. Back in the day we were in the same congregation and it had been a couple of years since we'd all seen each other. |
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| Wendy & Yuliana from East Spanish |
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| Saturday we ate with these lovely friends from Columbus, OH at a Turkish restaurant |
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| So excited to see Holly again. It had been YEARS since we'd seen each other. I love this picture. We were so well coordinated, accidentally! |
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| Rachel & Daniel with their adorable kids, Elijah & Liliana |
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| Such a joy to see little ones learning to give back to Jehovah |
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| Brother Malenfont was the Governing Body helper who gave a few talks, streamed from Atlanta. He is such a good speaker and his Spanish is also very good. |
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| Almost 32,000 on Sunday. |
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| Just over 700 attended the meeting for the School for Kingdom Evangelizers |
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| Got to see Iris. She served for a time in Nicaragua, so it was nice to finally meet up again |
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| Convention theme - reminding us to put the Kingdom first, not sports!! |
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| Just six missionary couples that were in Atlanta |
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| Some of the signs in Atlanta. The one at the bottom says "Look for us in paradise" and it has a bunch of arrows pointing up to the people holding it! |
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| God's Kingdom Loading - 99% |
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| Sad goodbye to Lucas Oil Stadium. What memories we had there during July & August! |
Thank you for the wonderful pictures!
ReplyDeleteYou won't believe it, but we know 3 of the couples in your pictures. Mark & Mitsuko have his family iliving relatively close to us. You should have seen their wedding reception with spanish being translated into English and Japanese. Jason y Xiomara are from our circuit. We knew Holly when she was and single via friends that we originally met in Nicaragua that later went into Spanish. What a small world in Jehovah's organization!!!
ReplyDeleteWill you be attending English Regional in San Salvador in October?....I am thinking 'not' from your posting. Enjoyed your posts and pics!!!!
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