of Bethel......!!!

Hey there...
We took a little trip from Esteli to go visit and take a tour of the Nicaragua Bethel Branch, which is just a little bit south of the capital of Managua, at a place called Ticuantepe.

There's a bunch of stuff I wanna talk about... lets get started...

The fact that we got the opportunity to be able to take a tour and stay overnight at Bethel was an amazing privilege. The Nicaragua Branch is closing down this next week and we were actually their last overnight visitors they were gonna have. It was an awesome experience and sort of sad because the branch is closing down all operations and moving everything to Mexico. This is also the case with the other Central American countries as well.

We were invited by Dani and Ruth San Nicolas, a bethelite couple, who have been friends with the Gomez's for a while.  They actually came to visit on Long Island back in September.  So, this time we were with them here in Bethel Nicaragua.

This is just a picture I took of a painting I found on the wall in Dani's office.  It just gives you an overhead view of the Bethel grounds...

I'm gonna post the pics in succession of what we saw on the tour, there were a lot of interesting things from the tour worth checking out...

Here's the well... this supplies the water for the Bethel grounds...................cool.....
And that's the sister that took us on the tour... haha... what was her name? ...... sorry

.... walking to the main lobby... the property is maintained so well, it's definitely the most gorgeous place I've seen in Nicaragua... Definitely doesn't feel like you're in a 3rd world country.

Past the main lobby area was the courtyard, which was this beautiful garden walkway.  Super peaceful...

This is Dani and Jordan in his office.  Dani's the head of maintenance at the branch. 

Here we are at the library... Ha, Jordan's holding this psychedelic-looking book from the 60's for some reason...

As mentioned earlier, the grounds here are kept beyond pristine... and this is in the central part of Bethel... this is only part of the field, but it's a huge open pasture.... awesome..

Here's another pic of the scenery and one of the buildings... O and don't ask me why Phil is in the pictures looking off into the distance like that... 'cuz I totally didn't tell him to go there...............

This was their museum here at Bethel... it had a lot of very interesting information about how the truth was reached to people in Nicaragua back in the 60's through the 80's.  These were very difficult times for the Nicaraguans... this was during the Nicaraguan Revolution, which was a time of war, and the Sandinista vs the Contras up until the 90's... so there were a lot of information pertaining to the hardships of the brothers during the time of war, and many who were in prison, refusing to fight for either side.

This was just one of the interesting stories.... of a brother who was put in prison for refusing to fight for either sides during the war, and still made a witness by writing all he could remember from the live forever book on toilet paper and what he could remember from the song book.  With this, he was able to conduct meetings and keep the bible truths alive with all of his fellow prisoners.

Here we have the dining room... we were able to enjoy lunch and dinner on our first day there, and then breakfast and morning worship the next day which was really nice.

 O, and we were privileged to be a part of their last Watchtower Study they were going to have before all operations shut down next week.  Also very nice, but sad at the same time.

This is the pic we took right before we left... that's us with Dani and Ruth, the friends who invited us to Bethel.

Lastly, this is a hysterical pic of El Jefe... Jordan looks like a boss, the big man in charge.  Just look at the way he's kickin' back on the chair, the big grin, and the beastly desk... He's truly felt like the man at that moment...

So that's about it for our Bethel experience... it was really amazing to be able to see it before it moves operation to Mexico and then they get it ready to be sold... o well....

thanks for reading,

enjoy