This morning, we came down to the hotel's cafetaria for breakfast at around 7am. Afterwards, we walked to catch the Tram to Bethel here in Riga. It was about 15 minutes of a ride.
We arrived at Bethel about 15 minutes early for the self-guided tour. Their parking lot is gated, but I assumed they saw us, and opened the gate! One of the brother's was able to open the door for us to the main lobby, as we waited for other brothers and sisters to arrive. The Bethelites were impressed and told us how eager we were to arrive early- we were ready to go! We did the tour, met some of our brothers, and got to learn a little bit about the history of our Latvian brothers. All so fascinsting! Check out the pictures on Facebook :)
After finishing our tour at Bethel, one of the brother's there was planning on going to the Assembly Hall in meeting for field service, so he offered to take us!
It was nice to be able to tour the Assembly Hall in Riga because they will be selling the property in just a few months. They will be renting halls nearby instead for the friends.
Also, the Latvia branch is relocating to Finland very soon as well.
As we finished our tour at the Assembly Hall, I noticed an older brother sitting down that reminded me so much of Brother Morris from the Governing Body. I whispered over to my aunt, "doesn't he look like Brother Morris?" Lei took a quick glance, and sure enough, it was him! So we approached the brother and said our hellos :)
We then took a cab back to the hotel. We arrived back at about 12pm, and in half an hour, we needed to meet back downstairs to take our bus to the Hall for field service! From our hotel alone, we had two buses to pick up the brothers who had prearranged plans for field service today! As we arrived to the Hall, the brothers on the platform gave us a few brief presentations in Russian and Latvian. Our groups were divided and off we go!
My group did informal witnessing, and I got to give my presentation in Latvian a few times, which was exciting!!
It was a great experience and joy to share in distributing the invitations for the convention with our Russian/Latvian brothers and sisters!
After the ministry, the bus took us back to our hotel. We decided to take a nap, which ended up being a two hour one ;) ... Then we woke up to get a bite. We went to Lido restaurant again...best place everrr.
Tomorrow we are beginning our tours! We will be be taking an 8 hour tour of The Castle of Sigulda. Been hearing its really cool!
Thought I should share this... Sometimes in the middle of day, after returning to our room briefly, I'll take a nap, and end up forgetting to remove my lapel badge. It's not really bent, but not at straight as it used to be anymore, lol.
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