A most sacred night

Hey everybody! I'm finally putting an update on here. They say time flies when you're havin fun... I guess we must be havin fun, cause weeks fly by quickly. I am always thinking I need get on and post to the blog... but then till I actually have some free time, I'm tired and it sounds like to much thinking, so I keep putting it off. I know everyone has been watching for something new posted though. So today we're just hangin at the house and I'm actually getting around to it.

The memorial went very well for the island in general. For our little group, we were a little disappointed. We only had 22 in attendance. Some weeks for the Sunday meeting we have more than that, but I don't think most people we invited seemed to think much of it, so it was only our faithful studies that have been attending the meetings each week that came. Also it was a very rainy ugly night, and there was a big football game on as well (or what we call soccer) So Satan had some good tricks up his sleeve. But like I said, overall for the island there was a lot. In Coxen Hole English there was 120, so that makes the total for English 142! And there are only about 48 publishers total. Now we do still have some visitors here too though, so all those extras weren't all from the territory, but most were. That's pretty good, right? In Oak Ridge, we were 50/50. There were 11 Witnesses, and 11 from the territory. In Oak Ridge, for the Spanish and then Miskito they had a total of 98 for the two. And I don't know the totals from the other Spanish groups. I would really like to have a total for the whole island to post, but I just couldn't get my hands on the info yet. Last year I think the total was above 600.

So this is the season for many to leave and go home. The snow birds as we have been calling them. Brother Thompson calls it the mass exodus. In total, we will have lost 9 and then there is another couple that left in January and won't be back until mid June. So with 48 publishers, it will be down to 37 for awhile. And then there's not many vacation visitors either. So it will be seeming quiet and empty around here. And Justin and I will be feeling even more lonely up in Oak Ridge, because all the ones that would come up and support the group up there, have left, or are leaving, so it will be interesting to see how the meetings go. Since brother King left, Justin is now the Watchtower conductor. He's hoping he won't be the speaker every week too! For now there have been enough visitors still trickling by, that he hasn't had to give too many talks yet. But I think that will change very soon. There is a couple that is here until May 2nd and they have been coming up East every week to the meeting which is awesome. They will even be here for the 2 weeks we will be gone, which will be nice since there really isn't anyone else going up East. And they even offered to pick up our studies for the meeting, cool!

We did our first real "touristy" type thing this past Monday. A sister organized for a group of us to go out on one of those boat snorkeling trip things for a very good price. We went to a couple different spots to snorkel, and they took us to this really cool little island for lunch. It was pretty small, maybe 50 feet by 300 feet. But it was packed full of little grass roof huts. Yes people lived there. But is was in the middle of the ocean and far away from Roatan and still pretty far from the mainland too. It was crazy, I think the coolest little island I have ever seen. I can't imagine living there though, it would probably get really boring, but it was neat to see. So anyhow, we walk up to this one hut, where the lady feeds groups that stop here, and she had a meal all ready for us... A whole fish-eyes, teeth and all, beans and rice and fried plantain. It was really good. It was a really fun day, and the scenery was awesome. We passed a whole bunch of little tiny islands that would be perfect for one house.... I think I have my first place planned out for the new system:) So that has been our excitement lately. Well, we will be seeing everybody real soon, and are looking forward to it very much.