Friday, October 14, 2005
This was during our 2005 District Convention Godly Obedience, Saturday afternoon at about 12:10pm. It was the baptism talk entitled “Let Your Word Yes Mean Yes” (Matthew 5.37). Our C.O. [seen on the middle of the stage] was giving the talk, giving the candidates for baptism as well as everyone else, excellent reminders on the vow every Jehovah’s Witness has made to dedicate our lives to do Jehovah’s will and to not go back on our word. Anyway, the brother gave the talk beautifully. If you notice the first arrow on the picture, it’s pointing to the standing brothers and sisters that were going to get baptized. There were 52 new brothers and sisters added to our grand family that day.
The second arrow denotes where these bros were going to get baptized in, obviously. For everyone that was baptized, there was applause from the audience. More than that, there was about 10 million others rejoicing for each one of them (Luke 15.10).
The third arrow is just pointing at my older brother that was watching over the elevator, making sure none of the little ones were playing around the elevator. If you can see close enough, you can see him waving ecstatically with a huge smile on his face. (Not really. Don't even try to look.)
Other tidbits: Peak attendance was on Sunday afternoon: 5,861 and there were 455 volunteers.
Picture Behind-the-Scenes factoid: where the fourth arrow is pointing, there used to be a U.S. flag that I photo-chopped.
