If you look carefully in the sky in the photo above you will notice a hot air balloon, the first of many from a festival of sorts a short distance away. Back to the CO ... He spoke about cart work and initiatives that have been successful. For example, some Witnesses, when going to a Starbuck's for a coffee break, have taken the literature stand along with them, bought their coffee, and sat a a table with the cart beside them as luggage. While enjoying a coffee people would come over to inspect the books and magazines. We were invited to "think outside the box." There's a box?
Then we went off to do cart work at a plaza in Tequisquiapan. Not speaking Spanish is a mournful handicap in this territory, but Heather does well and the CO's wife, who was with us, has it mastered. Although English books are offered, so are Spanish ones and they are the ones that get placed. All I could do is serve as a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. Below I am taking the cart from the parked car to the plaza.
Children in Plaza came to see what was being offered as seen below ...
Laurie, the CO's wife, would lend a book to children to show their nearby parents and ask for permission for Laurie to explain the contents. Parents would look over the book and agree. So the children came back to hear excerpts from "My Book of Bible Stories."
Later, the parents came over to see what it was all about, select a book they liked, and in some cases start reading it right away as shown in the photo below ...
Fourteen books were placed at this location this morning and appointments made to meet again at this spot next Saturday morning to continue discussions - all in Spanish.
On the way home we passed a wedding party outside and stopped to take photos of the surroundings like many others. A few samplings follow.
Ushers?
The waiting wedding wagon.
The video below will not play on an iPad apparently, so a computer may be necessary to see it unless you have an Android tablet.
2 comments:
These beautiful children were so intrigued by my curly hair. At one point they just surrounded me and started touching it and giggling. A whole new experience for them. 😃
What a great Saturday !
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