What do you do when you are seeing double?

Convention Location

This stadium is home for a local soccer club, and it will be almost full of Jehovah's Witnesses this weekend. The program is being held in three languages (Estonian, Estonian sign language, and Russian). All of the parts have also been made available in English as well.  We have FM Radios to use so that English can be heard no matter where we sit in the stadium. But of course we also need headphones and batteries to make them work (Samone & Andria).

It was obvious that all the brothers took their department assignments very seriously. Evidence of this was sensed in the heartfelt prayer for Jehovah's blessing. And the brothers needed that blessing very much since there was a soccer game on Thursday night just before the convention.

This meant that the brothers started the preparations at about 9pm last night, working through the night in order to get everything  ready by 8 am. And the stadium looked beautiful - just like all of Jehovah's people. 

This sister studied the Bible with her 11yr old classmate and was baptized at 15yrs of age. She started pioneering in 1979 and is now serving as a field missionary in Estonia.

Bill has been preaching to "gangsters" for many years in the Estonian prisons. He has lost count of how many he has taught to love Jehovah over the years. He said its old age - I think it's modesty. 

The sister on the far right (blue sweater) was eager to introduce us to her bible studies - attending their first convention!

So needless to say, these friends are seeing double for at least two reasons: (1) they are getting very little sleep in an effort to make sure everything is perfect for this special occasion and (2) expected attendance at this year's event is estimated to be more than 2x the number of Witnesses in the whole country. So exciting!