May 21
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Two more wonderful
meetings with lunch in between. Luz's mother apparently requested that I would
eat lunch with her before the first meeting began, so that's how it worked. The
deal is that everyone brings their own lunch to Sunday of Special Meeting or
convention, and ask the workers and visitors just take an empty plate out to
the tent and share in the friends' meals. "Coffee" (really some sort of barley drink, I think) is served by
designated servers, and everyone enjoys eating together. It's a pretty nifty
arrangement really.
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Lots of rain again today,
but there was a good sized crowd. Trevor thought there were somewhere around
150 on Saturday and some more than that on Sunday afternoon. The Coyunde
friends are supposed to attend their own Sunday fellowship meeting in the
morning, but then quite a few of them walked the hour and a half plus to make
the second meeting - through mud and with the likelihood of more rain. It
really makes a lot of excuses for not doing what we really could do seem pretty
petty.
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I was on the work list to
help with supper, so I reported for duty soon after the second meeting was
over. My main job was washing potatoes (filthy potatoes!) and then getting rid
of the eyes and bad spots for boiling. As it turned out, there were several of
us working on the kitchen, so nobody had too much of a load, and it was just
nice to be together.
Elvia chops cilantro.
Diana stirs the dessert.
Miriam observes.
Flor checks the meat.
Excuse the shadow of my cell phone.
Above is the diagram of the tent, numbered for purposes of serving soup, bread and coffee.
Below is the corresponding list of who serves what in which section of the tent.
Hand-drawn map of where all the Olmos friends live
I think it's a bit outdated, but it was still pretty neat.
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We served supper early
and got a good head start on bedtime. Tomorrow will be an early morning with
final clean up and leaving.
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