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International Convention Chili!

This week we have a guest speaker on guest speaker Tuesday. (Remeber, just email me pictures and stories, and mail videos to me... for guest speaker Tuesday). This week the Guest Speaker is Jillian Brewin, speaking about her trip to the international convention in Chili!

Here are a few highlights from the convention:

The peak attendance was on Sunday afternoon - little over 107,000, close to
1,200 were baptized.
There were 5,000 delegates - 3,000 from the states.

Each day a branch overseer would relay experiences from their country (in
English).

One experience that stood out to me was from Uruguay. A 5 year old boy
noticed that his neighbor seemed very sad since his wife died. The little
boy decided on his own to walk over and give the neighbor the tract on
"Comfort for the Depressed". The man was so impressed with the tract and the
interest of the little boy that he called to talk with the father. A bible
study was started and the man is now baptized!
Matt.21:16 "out of the mouth of babes"

Another experience came from Ecuador. In Ecuador they have a large Indian
population, many of them live in isolated areas. One man found 4 magazines
in the wall of his house. With those 4 mags he determined that it was
necessary for him to attend meetings. He eventually crossed the mountain and
went to the local Kingdom Hall. Within a short period of time 15 people
became interested in what he was learning and they would visit his house for
bible discussion. Now this man is a Brother and there is now a congregation
in that area!

The whole convention experience was incredible! The first day of the
convention we were greeted with a huge reception line. The brothers and
sisters gave us gifts and lots of hugs and kisses. Chile doesn't have many
black people or blonde sisters, so lets just say if you were one or the
other you were attacked. One black brother in our group was surrounded by
little kids who wanted to feel his head.......couldn't help but smile. On
Friday I was walking to get my boxed lunch and there were several brothers
and sisters singing kingdom songs. In the middle of all of this there was
deaf ones signing and the other brothers and sister were singing for them.On
Sunday after the convention had ended the brothers and sister kept singing
Kingdom songs for 45 min . After the 1st verse the whole stadium was unified
in singing. Tears of joy filled everyone's eyes. As we leaving brothers and
sister lined up for at least 3 miles waving , and holding up signs that read
"see you in paradise".What a wonderful privilege it is to part of a united Brotherhood where language of mouth doesn't matter just language of truth!

Now I would never have believed they actually did the wave at a convention unless I saw this video... I really would like to meet the brother (or sister) who started this and shake their hand!

Watch the wave at an international convention! (High Resolution) (3 MB)

Watch the wave at an international convention! (low resolution) (.5 MB)

Jillian, is definitly a lover of kids too! She told me about this sock puppet show thats real popular in Chili, after watching the following clip, she went up to the kids and would just say... lala... bringing laughter from them... ah international language!

Watch Lala high! (3 MB)

Watch Lala low! (.5 MB)

And Jillian also climbed a volcano! Dibbs to ya for doing that!

Posted by itzjerm at December 16, 2003 11:43 PM