Congregation Party

Hello everyone, I hope everything is well back home. Just a quick update on the happenings down here. Yesterday Chris Godburn from Hopetown came out and gave the public talk in Brighton. The talk was on following the course of hospitality, it was so nice to understand everything the brother was talking about. It was also nice because in addition to understanding everything he was talking about we had 2 deaf at the meeting. Danielle's Bible study Natalie has been coming regularly. A sister has offered to bring her to meeting and take her home for us. She lives right across the road from Natalie. The congregation is very helpful and sweet.

After the meeting was over we went back home to wait for Tom and Michelle who were on their way home from Skeldon where he had just given the public talk. They offered to take us with them to the Hollenbeck's house for the congregation party. The Hollenbecks are a missionary couple that go to the Brighton congregation. They live quite a bit out of the territory so we didnt know how to get there yet. So while we waited we contemplated eating the rice krispie treats that we made for the party, however we decided not to.

Finally they got to our house and we piled in their car and away we went. Once we got there the eating began!! The Guyanese people are very concerned with eating and talking. That is the concern of everybody who grew up in this country. After the eating the festivities began. We had musical chairs, cricket, basketball, and dancing. The musical chairs became very violent once the adults started playing, there was lots of pushing and pulling. However seeing a young brother from Hopetown dancing around the chairs was very amusing. So after the musical chairs everyone kind of did their own thing, which included dancing:)That was fun to do, the Guyanese people are very shy but finally us foreigners got some of them to dance. We taught some line dancing and swing dancing. It was fun to watch them try to learn those dances. Then they taught us how to do some Indian dancing, I can show you when I get home.

At the end of the night it was just us at the Hollenbeck's house, so Michelle and Barbra pulled out the songbooks and we had a nice time singing the new kingdom melodies. Being in sign language means that I had no idea how to sing anymore....or ever actually. It was nice to be around people that are so encouraging, they have great stories and wonderful advice to give us. We finally felt like we really bonded with the congregation. Well that is it for now, until next time.