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Hello Friends and Family,

Yes we are alive and well. Our internet service has been out for a while. It came back on line today.

Dennis and Lorelle arrived safely, the luggage arrived a couple days later :) All was well though, including the delicious homemade cookies from Granny! Thankyou! We are still enjoying them.

Thankyou to all the friends and family who sent back gifts and greetings via Dennis and Lorelle, it means so much to feel the love of our worldwide brotherhood.

It was a real treat to get the new convention releases. Our convention is coming begining of January.

The "truth" campaign has been marvelous.

Many people wait in long lines for taxi rides, so if we have room we often will offer a ride. People are often amazed as most private vehicles do not pick up passengers, then when we speak the Krio they are even more surprised. It give a fine opportunity to witness. As many of the foreign workers do not learn Krio and reguire their workers to speak English they are really thrown off by our speaking in their native language. We have had some great conversations. Shelby placed a tract with a women and the next Sunday she came to the meeting.

Lorelle placed one with a young women last week and she came to the meeting this past Sunday, she gave me her phone number and Tuesday I met her for her first study. She said she will be at meeting again this Sunday.

We had Circuit Overseer visit this week, lots of activity. On Sunday Dennis counted over 20 that came to the special talk from our having the priveledge to invite them. I was a little unsure about my scedule once Dennis and Lorelle returned as I had been filling in for them on some of their studies. Well no worries, Saturday I got a nice RV with a neighbor just down the road. And a brother met a woman near our home, who said she used to study. He told her our address, she came by that afternoon and we resumed her study, she recently moved to our neighborhood. She had been attending Godrich Congregation. I invited her to meeting but she said it was too far for her to travel with her two daughters. We offered for her to ride with us, she came early Sunday morning with her two girls and we packed in the car like sardines. But happy as clams :) It is not easy to get transport from where we are living. It is a good 1/2 hour walk to where you can access taxis, and then you have to have two taxi stops to reach the Kingdom Hall. Often the wait to get a taxi can be very long as there are just more people than taxis. Many friends walk over an hour to meetings because paying for taxi is just too much money. We are so thankful that we have a vehicle and can give rides. We would not be able to live in the neighborhood we are in without a vehicle, with our little ones the walking would just be too difficult. Fuel prices came down this month, it had been 18,000 leones a gallon but is now down to 12,500 leones a gallon. This converts to about $4.00 a gallon US, not great but much better than the $6.00 it had been.

The temperature has been upper 85 to 98 degrees during the day. Evenings are in the 70's, with nice breeze so sleeping is good even without a fan.

Keep warm New Englanders.

Your in our thoughts and prayers,
Swifts