We are so sorry we have not posted in so long!!! Things have been hectic at site so have not had chance to sit and write.... But now we can connect at home so hopefully we can keep you all up to date!
So lets think what has been happening here...
So we are now up to 90 full time construction workers, that's 8 internationals, 3 Kingdom Hall Construction Groups and the rest local volunteers from Barranquilla. It's an amazing atmosphere to be in, feels like a really really big RBC project. Everybody is super friendly and all are willing to try and listen to our very bad Spanish!! The plumbing team is now up to 7 all are great. 2 brothers from Kingdom Hall Groups and the others are local brothers doing plumbing for the first time. They are all willing to learn and get stuck in, hopefully we can keep them for the next two projects!
We have just about completed first fix for the office and guest apartments and are moving onto the baptism building!! The rainy season has started here so makes laying pipe work fun. We have to dig the trench, lay the pipe and try and fill the trench back in all in the same day so the rain doesn't fall and fill it up for us.
Work has also started on the main auditorium, the foundations are being made. The plan is for the roof to be on by August, lets wait and see!!
Our congregation is just about getting used to us and our quirky ways. We have made some great friends even though we speak Spanish like babies. It's amazing how it doesn't matter in Jehovah's Organization that we come from all different backgrounds but yet we instantly feel like family! We have been put on the Theocratic School and we both have talks in 3 weeks in Spanish!! Nothing like being thrown in the deep end!
The ministry isn't the easiest here and takes some getting used to after Africa. Our Congregations territory is mostly apartment buildings which won't allow you to get inside so usually can only preach to the door man. We have both learnt a little presentation with a scripture and most are really impressed at our effort and willingly listen.
Our Construction Overseer and wife have been given a new assignment in Brooklyn as a Project Overseer so they leave in July. We have a new Overseer arriving in June sometime. Our assistant overseer and wife has now returned from their holiday so they have joined us in our apartment. Now we are 6 so makes it a bit more lively at home!
We managed to squeeze in a little weekend break to an amazing beach just near Cartagene. We left straight after work on Friday and returned home on Sunday. We camped right on the beach, the sound of the sea at night was perfect to send you off to sleep. Nothing better than a morning swim to wake you up. On the Sunday Ferg had the public talk in the English Congregation so we had to wash in the sea as there were no showers. It wasn't the best feeling sitting at the meeting feeling sticky and having sand in places you didn't want! All good fun. After the meeting we had a little walk around the Old Town in Cartagene, wow it is so beautiful. Can't wait to go back there and spend a few more days looking round.
Can't think what else to write, I know there is much to say but I can't quite think of it...
Anyway here's a few pictures!!
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