This last week has been both busy and great fun. Shane and Vanessa moved to our congregation (a great couple from Jenny´s old congregation in Virginia) and we´ve had our Circuit Assembly at Matagalpa our CO and DOs visiting our congregation.
Our Circuit assembly was held at the cancha Brigadista, a basketball court in the very centre of Matagalpa. The entrance is decorated with drawings of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega (current president and victor of the Somosa revolution) and Fonseca, local hero and "scholar" of the revolution. This year Jenny and I were assigned to cleaning which gave me an eyeopener with what that involves in our area.
Friday was our pre assembly cleaning day, a full clean up that included, chewing gum scraping to parking lot cleaning. The only problem with the venue is also the hardest part of the cleaning department, the toilets. That is the "one" urinal for the men and the "one" toilet for the siters. Unfortunately the many signs we placed in the mens toilet clarifying that is was ONLY a urinal were not always adhered to, and well... that "expanded" our job description.
To deal with the volume of bros further private toilets of a neighbour were contracted. The house must have been as old as Matagalpa, and still displayed dozens of bullet holes scattered along the adobe walls. Below you can see both the bullet holes and Jenny waiting to use and clean the facilities.
The effort bros made to get to the assembly was an inspiration in itself. Some travelled for two days, walking for one, spending the seasons savings just in transport.
Jenny and I were happy to see six studies at the assembly, which made a great effort themselves.
A highlight for us was to have Shane and Vanessa, their enthusiasm, pioneer spirit and raw love for the brothers is very encouraging. They are going to do so well here.
Shane was quite an attraction as you can see in the pic below.
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