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Woke early for the special assembly day, Brother Eduardo had recommended that we get there early to get a seat. The SAD started at 10am. The tema (theme) of the program was “Presten atencion a como escuchan” translated is “Pay attention to how you listen” taken from Lucas 8:18.

… maybe it was her good looks that helped …

As you would expect the program was in spanish, but it’s getting much easier to pick it up… I’m beginning to understand alot more words, in some cases understand sentences and in one instance I even understood an interview with a young sister who spoke very clearly or maybe it was her good looks that helped? Just kidding just kidding… but seriously folks.

The program was attended by a visiting brother and his wife from the Mexican bethel, traveling with him also were two sisters from Michigan USA. They were on two weeks holidays traveling with the bethel brother as he went around the SAD gatherings and conducted some parts on the program. He was a very fluent speaker in both english and spanish, in fact I don’t know which language was his second one? I certainly couldn’t pick it up in his english and he spoke very fast in spanish so he was clearly comfortable with either tongue. He did say that he was born in the USA and raised later in Mexico so by the sounds of things he got a decent amount of exposure to both languages at an early age.

… enormous walls of white water …

It was very hot sitting in the assembly hall, its sides were open to a breeze however the wind was no where to be seen. So when the program ended we were desperate to get in the surf and cool off. We arrived back at our hotel to find that the beach was closed down for swimming and surfing due to very strong and enormous walls of white water. So instead we went for a run up the beach and back straight into the hotel pool. We stayed in the pool for one and a half hours because it took that long to cool down our core body temperature.

A bunch of the young ones in the congregation that we are associating with arranged to get together in town after the SAD. So we met on the Playa Principal strip for some company and eats. Brother Jorge was with us for the evening… he is the only elder in the congregation and he’s alot of fun to have around. I wish that I could speak spanish fluently… I (we) feel like I’m (we’re) missing out on a lot. Its hard not having the freedom of speech/expression that you take for granted, it truly is a gift and I now envy those who are multilingual. “There is nothing like a NEED to create within you a DESIRE to accomplish a SOLUTION”. That’s my profound saying for the day but somehow I think it’s been said before… on the note Adios.