Catching Up

This is what I am going to call catching up.  There are several photos we didn't know how to upload before so we are kind of regressing here, and it will jump around too.  Sorry.

This was taken at the Luhan Zoo.  Yes, we are really petting a tiger and I am smiling but don't be fooled, I am petrified and I'm going to wait until the new system to do it again.

This is a panoramic photo of the site.  When the iron started to go up the first day, it reminded us of when it started to go up at our assembly hall.  Everyone was so excited.  Currently they have about 23 of 30 up.  It has rained so much that the work was stalled for a bit.  They are about 10 weeks behind schedule.  But it was dry today.

This is the "Cocina" where I work when I'm not working in the "comedor".  We had just taken out these pear upside down cakes.  The brother who is the chef, Gaston, is unbelieveable.  He used to own his on restaurant in Buenos Aires but sold it when he and his wife were invited for this project.  They have been here since around January and have another two years to go.  They just purchased a new bread mixer and now will be making all of their own bread and hope to save about $600 a month on bread.  We will be heavier when we come home.  But wow, what a way to weigh.

This is us at our assigned table.  Today we had the comments for the text at morning worship so we sat at the head table.  It wasn't really scary because hardly anyone speaks English so they don't know what we said.  Even the brother conducting morning worship doesn't speak English so he just said "muey bien" and "excellente".  So it was all good.

 

This is an artist's rendition of the assembly hall and school for married couples.  The auditorium will seat 6300 in the main hall and 1300 in the auxilliary auditorium.  They want to finish the school first which has 20 rooms for 40 students to stay.  Then they will move all of the IV's and IS's from Canuelas there to work.  It will save them so much money in fuel as the commute from Canuelas to the Ezezia site is about 40 minutes.

 

 

 

This past Sunday, Neil was invited to give the public talk in Buenos Aires to the English congregation there.  It was kind of funny to hear them speaking English when it isn't their first language.  They are actually an English Group at this point.  We met some Bethelites from the States.  One brother from Colorado Springs, CO actually knew friends of our there.

After the talk, we went to this downtown flea market place.  They sell the same stuff they sell at every flea market.  Neil bought a leather belt and we had some pastry.  This was like a long line dance.  But, the dance was the Tango.  Some of these people really got into it and there was one guy that we didn't even want to show you his picture because it was so ridiculous we figured we need a signed authorization to show it. 

Well, that's it for now.  I'm trying to get over my second cold and am coughing like crazy.  Everyone has been sick so we are going to hit the sack.  5:30 actually comes very early, in fact, in AZ it comes around 1:30.