Brand spanking new!

Can you imagine renting the house across the street from your apartment in a little old town in Guyana and the next week having it ready to hold church? Well, that's what the two elders did in Crabwood Creek that is about 1 1/2 hours from here which is at the east end of nowhere...or just across the river from Suriname. We visited this new branch last Sunday for the first time and were excited to see how they set it up. It felt so good when we walked inside.
The branch president repaired the chalk letters of some of the words on this chalkboard and set it out in front of the meetinghouse.
These are the two elders that are teaching the newly baptized branch president how to run his branch. Attendance started out at the beginning of the meeting at 7. By the end of an hour there were 19.
These 3 little girls got all ready for school today, but never made it there. Instead, they came knocking on my door at 7:30 am. I pretended to be asleep, but discovered them hours later still outside my door. They skipped school all day, hoping that I would let them in and give them some candy.

When the neighbor lady told them to leave, they just glared at her from where they sat on the cement by my front door. She finally got them to leave at about 2 pm.