Levi and I just came back from Guam where we enjoyed the zone visit from Brother Ellison and Brother Sanders. We arrived on Thursday and had some amazing Mexican food with our host Tammy Cleaver and then went to the Machano congregation meeting and caught up with old friends. During the Zone visit the Branch throws a big dinner for those serving in full time service here in Micronesia. This year there was almost 100 persons their, one big happy family. On Sunday all the congregations on Guam came together for a special meeting where there was 1,225 in attendance and 734 hooked in through video on 7 different islands for a total of 1,959.(wow) We enjoyed 2 talks from the Zone overseers entitled 'Maintain Your Joy While Enduring Trials' and 'Fruitage That Gives Glory to Jehovah' and we also enjoyed listening from experiences from different ones here in Micronesia. All in all a short trip to Guam but one that was packed full of encouragement.
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| The Zone dinner |
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| Levi and I with Yumi (who lives in Chuuk and works as one of the translators) |
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| Here Mavine (left) from Pohnpei and Purine(Yumi's sister) from Chuuk. They both work as full time translators. |
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| Left to right: Troy (Our CO), Tony (hanging onto his wife's purse and loving it),Shem(Part of construction in Guam), Jeff(missionary from Chuuk), and Matt(Part of construction in Guam)and Roger (Part off the Branch in Guam)in the back ground.What a fine example these brothers set. |
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| After the dinner we went to the Brooks room for some story time :).Here we have: Sallyann and Tony Alik, Mark Ellison, Travis Brooks, Amy and Jake Felby, Lacey Brooks, Us, Matt, and Shem |
Here are some pictures of what the A team have been up to with the building of the Kingdom hall in south Guam. They have had amazing help from the local Congregations on Guam, some Saturdays having almost 60 volunteers.
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| Barak Bowman interviewed some form the Islands on the Program on Sunday. (left) Annabelle and Cathy (these are 2 single sisters that serve as Special Pioneers in Kosrea), Tyron and Allen (both part off the construction), and 1 sister from the island off Yap that works on the translation team, and Deloras from Palau also part off translation. |
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| After the program we enjoyed some tasty food with some friends. |
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