New KH!

So it's been almost 3 weeks since we moved.  We've been having a great time getting to know the brothers in our new hall.  We're also excited that we'll be able to participate in another construction.  Two truckloads of equipment arrived yesterday.  Tomorrow the construction group will be arriving.  The actual construction should be starting on Tuesday and will probably last around 2 months.  The new hall will belong to three congregations.  Ours is one of them, but after it is built there will likely be some restructuring to maybe create a new congregation.  Our congregation has 108 publishers and is still not the largest congregation in the city.  Our neighboring congregation has over 120 publishers.  That's even considering there was a restructuring about 3 years ago that created a few new congregations.   

I created a new photo album where I will post pictures of the new construction.  Here is the link

https://plus.google.com/photos/115774820596448587458/albums/6070733149138994481?authkey=CJfWuMeNoqLMlgE

This is the view out of our back bedroom.  You can see the ocean!

 This was last Saturday.  We were preaching in a territory outside the city.

New Year!

Well, another year has come and gone... and what a year it was!  (construction, two trips to the states, Kyle's visit, pioneer school, campaigns, etc..)  We're looking forward to what the new service year may bring.  I guess you could say we are starting it off with a bang.  On Friday we are moving to Puerto Plata.  Puerto Plata is a city about 30 minutes from the town where we currently live.  Here is the link to the wikipedia page that talks about the city.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Felipe_de_Puerto_Plata

There are 10 Spanish, 2 Haitian Creole, 1 English and 1 sign-language congregation in Puerto Plata.  Soon there will be two new kingdom halls built in the city.  Our new congregation will be meeting in one of the new halls.  It's name is Torre Alta and has around 115 publishers (4x the amount of our current hall!).  It will definitely be a big change.  We'll be sure to post some pictures of the new place once we get settled in.

Below are some pictures from this summer.

 This is the new screen we have at our assembly hall. 

A new brother who was baptized this summer.

Hall is done, now it's hot, hot, hot!

The hall is finally finished and was dedicated last Sunday.  We still can't believe how nice it is.  It's one of the nicest looking Kingdom Halls I've seen here.  Maybe we're just partial and can think about how it used to look. :)  Here are some before and after pictures.  I took a few more of the inside that I'll post here soon.

 BEFORE

AFTER!!!

It's also getting really hot!  Here's an image from a page showing the current temperature, heat index(feels like 111!!!) and forecast for the next few days.  :(

New Pics

Well, the kingdom hall is really taking shape.  Most of the walls are up and all the window and door frames are in.  We continue to get really nice comments from people in the community about the project.  People are most impressed at seeing women working on a construction site.  Some people who drive by actually turn around, come back and stop just to watch everything going on.  We've had great support from the other congregations in our circuit and regularly have 20-30 people working at the site each day.

Here is the link again for our photo album.
https://plus.google.com/photos/115774820596448587458/albums/5999539421712720961?authkey=CNe4j--EguqTmwE

New Pictures

At this moment I'm uploading 22 new pictures to the photo album.  The link to the online album was in the last post from a week ago just in case you missed it.

As you can see the old KH is officially gone!  All the walls are down.  We've continued with the bond beam and the block walls.  The doors and windows got here this week and some are already being set in place.

There were a few really hot days this week.  Everybody sweats a lot.  I sweated so much one day that a brother jokingly asked if I'd got caught in a downpour.  That day I drank 2 1/2 gallons of water.  It looks like this week it should be a little cooler and cloudy.

Check back next Sunday or Monday for an update.

Photo Album

Hi everyone!  Between us and other brothers and sisters there are so many pictures we decided to make an online photo album where you can see the pictures.  Every Sunday or Monday we'll add more pictures.  Click on the link below to access the album.  If you have any problems seeing it just let us know.

Click here for the photo album.

KH update

3am working security at the hall with Lili.

These are pictures of a brother's recently built house that is being used to house some of the brothers from the construction group and also as a kitchen.

Here we are regretting having made the concrete safe for the sound equipment so strong.

After about 3 hours it finally came down.

One word.... dirty