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