Ok, I know I already said this, but this circuit overseer's visit has been so exciting. On Tuesday, the brother asked us to set the goal of every one of us inviting someone to come to the meeting with us this week. So as we were arriving to the Sunday meeting today, me and Forrest wondered if we'd break 200. We are 120 publishers, with a typical Sunday attendance of around 160. Well, as the meeting started, every last seat was disappearing. Then the B school filled up. Then they started asking all the brothers to stand up in the back. Then they started putting down plastic stools on the end of all the isles. Even the circuit overseer was standing in the back during the Watchtower study. They announced the attendance at the end: 273 people! That's 228% of the publishers! One of the attendees was my study Luz, who came for her first time. She told me afterward that she's going to come always now. Another person who came was a man that Forrest met this week. While they were in service a man came up to them and asked if he could have a Bible. Forrest gave him our usual answer, that he didn't have a Bible with him, but there are Bibles at the Kingdom Hall and if he comes he can have a Bible. We have to say that to root out who's really interested enough to come to the meeting, and who will just take a free Bible if we bring them one. So this man did come today, and Forrest made arrangements to visit him at home. We'd been getting pretty tired out physically from walking every day in our mountain territory, but it's been a nice reminder for me of what a privilege it is to live where things are really happening theocratically.
Here is the service group Friday. There were too many people meeting to meet in a house.
Saturday morning we worked WAAAAY up on a hill. Here are a couple of the friends who were out.
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