Bethel Second Round

We took another trip to Bethel this year again, it always nice to see what changes have been made in the last year. 

The family has been shaved down so much so that they now only use the dinner room for family worship Monday evenings. The family makes their own breakfast, dinner and cleans their own rooms. Such a change. I asked the brother who gave us the tour if he had lost any weight just yet cause of his cooking, lol. A friend of ours happened to be our guide, Mike Dube, he is in the Ndebele congregation in the city here. His assignment here is on the tech team for the JW.org and Bethelites computers. The team help set up new accounts for newly formed congregations he said they handle about 4 a month! They still need many halls to be built and updated but they work hard and quickly the number hasn’t changed from the last time so I am not sure how many more they need.

The translation teams have been very busy at work this last year. Around this time last year they only had a few books recorded in Shona now if you look all most every watchtower and awake is released along with the English versions. It helps to learn to say the sounds when I can listen a million times to the same page in order to read on the rurals. I tend to read very slowly so at times the meaning is lost.. oops.. haha  I bring up that we need the Shona added to the lang app every time I go to visit Bethel on Saturdays to hang out with a couple. 

Ending new numbers as such from exactly one year ago: 4 New circuits , 87 new congregations or groups, 833 new regular pioneers and 2295 new publishers.