Special Assembly Day-Part 2

We are back with part 2.  It was so nice to be able to see the demonstrations and experiences here in Africa.

This young man is 12 years old and a regular pioneer.  He  has a goal to be in special full-time service when he is old enough.  We really enjoyed his experience.

One thing we appreciate here is that people speak English.  However, we hadn't realized that even though we speak the same language, because of our culture and backgrounds, we can speak the same language but the thought patterns are still different.  It's still quite a foreign way of thinking and everything is still new to us here.

We also love seeing people in their pristine outfits:

One of our beautiful Nigerian sisters from Bethel

I could totally get on board with these headdresses.  Can you IMAGINE how much time I would save on my hair? Never a bad hair day with these colorful headwraps!  It would be so handy to just twist one of these on and go.  PLUS during the day as my hair grows along with the temperature and humidity, you would never see it, the headwrap would come to the rescue.  Every morning as I enter the dining room I sigh, knowing that my frizzy hair is just on display for all to see! :-D  I wear a bandanna to work but its really not the same at all.

We realize most of you are dealing with extreme cold at the moment so I'm sorry to talk about the heat. However, I'm going to talk about it some.  It was difficult to deal with but we had come prepared with lots of water and we made it!  It's amazing how hot it is.  I literally could barely stand to have even my Bible on my lap it was so hot.  Favor fell asleep in the afternoon and was leaning on me and I had to gently adjust her so she wasn't on me.  I felt bad because I love kids but it was a self preservation kind of thing.  I really at a few points kind of wondered if I could make it, but then I reminded myself that there was nowhere else to go that was not hot so I had to stay put.  On the plus side, the humidity means our skin isn't chapped.  My hands look younger and don't crack or hurt.

Something we noticed as we came in was that the street is named Jehovah Witness Road:

If you zoom in on this picture you can see even another church has Jehovahs Witness Road as it's address:)

The Assembly Hall was there first so they got to pick the name!

The ride home was hot but we enjoyed the scenery:

Look, cows!  I know we are from ranching and farming country but even still, these are exotic African cows!

To cool down we went for a swim after we got back.  Later we fell asleep early, the heat really wears you out.

Since our Special Assembly Day in Wyoming will be held while we are here, we were very glad to have the chance to go here.  It was a fantastic day, and we feel privileged to have been able to go to an African assembly that we could understand!