Jan. 18 - Sunday

Jan. 18 – This morning there was a large group meeting for service, about 13. Brother Phinney said “we will be doing something totally different today”. He went on to discuss the importance of phone witnessing and described how they have been working on phone territory for the congregation and that all who wanted could help with that. Four of the friends went out in the door to door but the rest of us went back to our house, turned on the a/c and began searching for English sounding names in the phone books and entering them into a database. We stopped at 1pm to get ready for the afternoon meeting. At the meeting there a quite a few visitors who are all here on vacation. We probably had about 40 in attendance. We lost power about 5 minutes into the brothers talk. He said, “well it’s too hot up here on the stage so I guess it’s going to be a 20 min. talk instead of a 30”, and he did just that. The poor brother’s shirt was just soaked by the end. We had to sing the middle song with no music….whew, that was tough! We gained power about 15 minutes before the meeting ended. Brandon found out at the meeting that he would be giving the public talk next week, his FIRST FULL LENGTH TALK! Looks like he’ll be at the house working up the last half of his outline any chance he gets. After the meeting we went with the speaker and a few others to a little ice cream shop across from the town’s soccer (football they call it here) field. $1.50 for two scoops of great ice cream….beat that Ben & Jerry’s! We sat and watched the soccer game for awhile after our ice cream break.