Special Assembly Day

Yesterday we had the Special Assembly Day for this circuit.  They don't have their own Assembly Hall like we do in Auckland so the Assembly was held at the University stadium. 

The night before, we went to help clean the Stadium.  Lot's of helpers turned up to help get it in a clean and tidy state!  It was really organized too.  There was lots of chewing gum from the university kids.  But after a couple of hours, it was all clean and set up ready for the next day.  It felt like one of those experiences you read in the magazines about the brothers and sisters cleaning up a stadium they have hired and how it brings glory to Jehovah's name because it is given back in a very presentable state.

Unloading all the gear to set up

There was a little shop that sold drinks/lollies etc that was open on the day

BEFORE the clean-up

A young helper having a drink and a biscuit break

Chairs getting set up

On the day

There was 1800 at the Special Assembly with 10 baptized.

One of the baptism candidates

This cute family was still finishing their ice-creams in the afternoon program lol!

It was good to have the Special Assembly Day not long after we arrived, we met alot of people - some from other lands that have moved here as well to help out, we got lot's of invitations to visit different congregations.  I didn't get much out of the programme as we would have if it was in English but it was great just to be there with our brothers and sisters in Bolivia.

All of us at the Assembly

Oh yeah, we walked to the Assembly too - something we never do in Auckland!  It was about a 10 minute walk there, so that was a neat experience too.