Matagalpa - Blogabond

The CA in Matagalpa was a real treat. There are something like 30 special pioneers in the circuit, I'm not sure whether or not the missionaries are considered special pioneers or not but there were 6 of them at the assembly as well. It was great to see them in action. Each of them had parts on the assembly with the exception of on of the missionary sisters and all of them were working hard with various assignments.

The location of the assembly is a small basket ball arena. The bathroom situation for almost 900 people was quite interesting. There are 2 bathrooms. (In the picture above it's the small shed on the right against the far wall, yep that's all of them) The mens restroom is only a small drain, probably 1-2 inches in diameter, so there are signs posted everywhere that you should only urinate there. However, Andrew, a brother in our congregation assigned to cleaning, was forced to handle the actions of a brother that evidently could not read the signs posted all over the little room. I hope that describes the situation without actually spelling it out for you. But I guess, in defense of the brother, if you've gotta go you've gotta go. This story really highlights some of the unique situations that come up here that likely wouldn't happen at home.

Another quite interesting thing involved the location of the assembly. It's basically a steel framed structure with no complete walls. This is fine in many places but Nica is special. I don't know if it's because of a lack of media exposure or what but people drive around here blasting advertisements about everything. Think sound cars in the JV book. They talk about people dying that day, and then subsequently name the 10+ names of the people that paid for the sound car to declare it. Quite interesting. Or sometimes it's just an advertisement to go somewhere or some religious proclamation, etc. The problem at the assembly is that because there are no complete walls, and the street is just on the other side of the small half high walls, the sound at the assembly is oftentimes in competition with the speaker. Something I found quite unexpected. I've never been to an assembly where the speaker was drowned out by ambient noise. Makes you appreciate what we have in the states.

I've included some pictures and perhaps Vanessa will blog a bit later.

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Shane Perry on August 11, 2008 from Matagalpa, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Shane and Vanessa's Nicaraguan Adventure

tagged Matagalpa, CircuitAssembly, SoundCar and Toilet

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