So heres a little Desiel update: He is getting big....he had a little bought with parasites and he started to lose fur on his face but now as you can see it is all growing back and he is still cute as ever. A note to Dave and Jas: He is doing well now...Cherrie has been talkin good care of him and we (Cherrie and us) have been enjoying you porch greatly! We miss you, have fun!


Well last week we had an interesting lunch break.....at around 12 o'clock a fire started in the roof of the construction dinning room. The cieling is just plastic so it melted onto the table and all that was on it. No one was hurt and they figured out what caused it. Wiring to an AC unit. Well luch is at 12:30 and some are there cleaning but as the rest of us file in we see what happened and we had to clean all the other tables and dishes. With team effort it all got put back together.

So here in the Liberian Branch they handle the weekend food by assigning a couple one day of the weekend. With as many as we have here it comes around about every 7 weeks. We just had one the last weekend in AUG. You get to pick your menu, so below is a picture of what we made. Chicken Alfredo, with a vinegrette salad, garlic bread and chocolate cake!! yum!!!!

We have volunteers that come in from the surrounding congregations and these sister below cook for all the volunteers and contracted brothers. Doing it with a smile!

Here below is a picture of our crew. There are a few new additions to it since this pictures. Will add a new one later. so in order from Left to right: Richard, Aaron, Rufus, Mattew and Dominic.

Okay so a really long time ago I said that I would put pictures of our room up on the blog well finally I have done it. So below is our humble abode.

Here is the view from the big window. That little dirt patch you see there is where the brothers play soccer. So when Aaron plays I can watch from the comfort of our room and make sure he is playing nice..... :)

And not that you really care to see it but this is our bathroom....for the size of our room our bathroom is pretty big. Well thats it! Thats the grand tour of our Liberian Pad. Hope you enjoyed it.

Okay sorry the pictures went differently than expected....so please scroll from bottom to top.

Yum!....can't wait!

Here is the finished pizza oven. The above pictures are of the first pizza out of the oven.

Pizza anyone???? Here is the beginning of the pizza phase of the project. Aaron and the brothers in the picture below worked on the oven over the last weekend. It is finished now and the first firing will be this saturday.....stay tuned more pictures will come.....

Here is the shops building...at this point in time it is much farther along than this picture shows. Will get more pictures soon.

Here is the residence building. The top floor will be completed this month and will be moved into the beginning of August. I will put pictures up of the rooms and all the other details....

What's going on? Well this is our Special Assembly Day. They rent a basketball stadium. It has a roof that steps out to a lower roof to allow air flow. Well if you really want a cool seat you sit at the top of the bleachers. Well this day these seats proved to be particularlly cool. In the mid morning session we felt a nice stiff breeze. Well that breeze brought in a whole lot of rain. As the brother on stage giving his talk began to say that he was going to try to go on dispite the rain and wind, the tarps behind him gave way and in blew the rain. So our top seats that you can see from the picture below became very wet. Many brothers rushed the stage to try to tie down the tarps again, after a little while they finally won over all the rain and wind and secured the tarps. Then we had a bunch of wet brothers and a wet stage. So in the picture above there are some of the brothers wiping up the stage and setting up the sound equipments and the lecturn. All of that wound up making a 30 minute break in the program. What a memorible assembly!

This is a new gate that is located near the soon to be warehouse. Here at the branch they receive all their literature in containers from various countries but mostly from Britain. These containers range between 20 - 40 feet. You can see one of these in the picture below. On this container is all the furniture for the new residence building. With team work we were able to unload it and send it back on its way.

Part of the Brothers that you see in the picture above are congregation vounteers they come in for a week at a time. It is a nice opportunity to get to know some of the brothers from outlining areas. One brother that we had to chance to work with is Adjay the brother below. He worked on our crew for about a month.

Feel like a little grease fight??? Aaron and the Project overseer Thomas working on the JCB (a piece of heavy equipment for those who are unfamialiar with the name).

A baby lizard, we see them all around the sight. They are sooo cute.

Here is the newest addition to the Bethel family. His name is Diesel. We just got him a few weeks ago. After a few months of training he will be a guard dog for Bethel. As you can see from the pictures he is really placid. The laziest puppy we've met. He currently lives over here with us at the missionary home. Before he came Aaron and I and Dave and Jas our neighbors worked hard at building him a nice little house and a pin. It has been an enjoyment for many here to have him around. He gets lots of attention and love here.....as you can imagine.

Aaron is helping to set the roof on the shops building to finish it out.

Guess who.....looks like I don't know how to use a hammer huh?

Here are some photos of our recent Zone Visit. The bottom picture is him with his wife. There names are Brother Edward Bunn and Sister Sara Bunn. We actually were able to enjoy them 2 years ago when we were in Ecuador. Except it was all in spansih. This time he was able to give the same talks because this region hasn't heard them before...so I totally used my notes from Ecuador and followed along. Well to explain a little about a zone visit it is like a C.O. visit for the Branch. He visits with all the different departments and gives a little talk to them and he has a meeting with all the missionaries. There is a pictures below of the missionaries here in Liberia. During the visit we have a missionary dinner. Its super special in that the branch goes all out for them. We had a very nice meal and were able to enjoy listening to some of the experiences of how they became missionaries. Then on Sunday there is a big meeting with all the congregation here in Monrovia. The picture below shows you where we had it and how many are there. The funny thing is that in the country of Liberia we have about 5500 publishers, at this meeting we had an attendance of 8225. Good turn out. There is another picture below of some Brothers standing out in a field relieving themselves...but it wasn't just them.....all were making use of the outdoors. Then there is a piture of me and a sister named Julie. Her and her husband have been here for 4 months. She works in the kitchen and her husband does plaster. Well thats about it for the Zone visit.