Crocheting Beast

I have been crocheting for the past three weeks. These are the things that I have completed so far. The only thing not pictured is some leg warmers that I haven't taken a pic of. 

Zoey's first sweater

Zoey's second sweater

Infinity scarf

Great News From A Former Study

A former study of mine who was making good progress in Bolivia and had became an unbaptized publisher while we were there, contacted me online today with some exciting news!

In his words "We're now official brothers" He along with his father were just baptized at the District Assembly that took place a few weeks back.  It would have been so nice to be there to see it, but it certainly warms my heart that he along with his father are now part of our worldwide brotherhood.  Here's a photo of him below.  Hopefully we'll be able to congratulate them both in person sooner than later.

Remodeling our Kingdom Hall

So it has finally come after years and years of trying to get our Kingdom Hall remodeled we have finally started. Our hall was in pretty bad shape. But now we get to destroy the old and remodel it into a respectable Kingdom Hall. The colors that were chosen were blacks and beiges. I can not wait to see how it will look. The past two weekends we have been working really hard to get the hall demoed for the remodeling crews to come. It was a lot of work. They completely destroyed out bathrooms and are planning to make them bigger. Our whole hall was gutted because of mold issues and because it was purple. :) It is so nice to see that all being taking care of. Justin is in charge of organizing all the food arrangements for the next two months. He is so happy that the English congregation has offered so much help, because us being only 40 publishers in Spanish would have made it very difficult to accomplish. We have had such a great time so far meeting new ones and seeing old friends. Justin and I have been assigned to drywall, but I have asked the brothers to teach me electrical as well and they said yes. I also got invited onto the demo crew. I can not wait to start remodeling. It was fun tearing down the old, but I cannot wait for the new. Also side note: Justin's study Carlos came every weekend with us at 6:45am - 6 pm. He enjoyed it so much and was very eager to help. Here are a few pictures of the before and during construction.

Before: Our Auditorium

Before: Sisters' Bathroom

Before: Sisters' Bathroom

Before: Downstairs Second School

During: Demo of Bathrooms

During: Carlos (Justin's Study) and Br. Guzman helping out

During: Ceilings are being removed

During: Bathrooms Gone

During: Auditorium Demo

During: Sisters from English feeding us yummy foods

Justin, Steve and Carlos waiting for lunch 

During: Me demoing the sign. SO much fun.

Our Growing Family

First off, it's worth noting that we aren't expecting a child which might have popped into your mind when seeing the title of this post. :) Instead it's to talk about some of the young ones that we've been able to work with recently.

Stephanie has been having a lot of success in the ministry as of late (just started her 6th Bible Study thanks to Jehovah) and 3 of them came to the Sunday visit of our Circuit Overseer this past week.  A few of her studies have kids which they bring so we've been trying to work with the kids so that the adults can pay attention to what's going on with the program. 

I snapped this picture tonight which shows a few of the kids that we're working with. 

Some of the kids

I never expected to take up a whole row at the hall (6 of them sat with us and the rest with their parents) but the kids automatically come up to us when they arrive at the meeting begging to sit with us.  They're really well behaved and look up the scriptures.  What's amazing is this is only their 4th or 5th meeting and they are getting better every time. It really has been a blessing for our family and we are thankful to Jehovah.

As a side note, we're currently having our meetings at a nearby hall because this coming weekend will begin the demolition on our Kingdom Hall.  The project is set to go for a month and a half so look for pictures on that.