Alice-our personal chef, travel agent, personal assistant, concierage and basically anything else we need. Almost every arrangement we have made has been thru her. We want to stay in Nairobi-she has family there. Mombasa? A friend there. Go to a national park? A brother-in-law with a car who can take us. A neice in Bethel that has invited us to stay 2 nights before we leave. And I'm told if my arrangements in London fall thru, she has a sister there too!
Jehovah's organization is such a wonderful thing. Its so great to be a aprt of a worldwide brotherhood. WE come across the world not knowining anyone, and we're welcomed into one's homes and fed and given a place to sleep. Its a unique thing among Jehovah's witnesses you dont' hear about among other religions. We are truly united in belief-same watchtower lesson being considered, same assmebly discourses. And we can trust each otehr because we live by the same moral code found in the Bible. It's a nice feeling.
A funny story on this topic-Alice tells us that a man in her village has a nice hotel nearby. and he wonders why the mzungus (white girls) aren't staying there. She tells him because our brothers and sisters are putting us up in the village. So he starts spreading a rumor around this small village that the white girls have family here. Well, this was a shock to them all. But Alice explains we are a spiritual family Jehovah's witnesses. The man says, "oh, I didn't realize you were close like that."
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