Translation Home

“If Jehovah wants the house!”………….On all of Majuro we figure there may be six we actually only know of four homes which are of this size 6 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms and now after the building committee add on, there is office space to accommodate the translation team!  If you recall our home search more than one bedroom is the exception not the rule. The search for living space and office space went mostly unsuccessful for  some time including options to build, not desired because of difficulty finding leased land and high building costs. Then this home was noticed by “word of mouth” in a perfect location with a nearby smaller home thought to be perhaps used for the office space. Negotiations with the smaller home fell to owners lack of cooperation and desire for “high” price. Looking into the larger home proved successful with no doubt Jehovah’s direction behind the scenes.  

It turns out that the owner  was living on Ebeye, a tiny island off the atoll of Kwajalein.  Guess where she lives on Ebeye? (stay tuned for answer)   This large home was built for family use but the family never used the home and it was new and unoccupied! Go angels.  The owner “coincidentally” on Ebeye lives next to the Kingdom Hall and has a very friendly and neighborly relationship with the missionaries living next door.  On contacting her, she proves very interested in renting to the brothers.  The price is very reasonable and she was willing to pay the costs of remodeling for the additional office space!  We will let you know when the neighbor in Ebeye becomes a sister (we hope)!  

The first picture is the front view of the home.  As can be seen the home is in “rural” part of Majuro closest to the Laura congregation.  Picture two is also a front view capturing existing landscaping.  This third picture shows back view including the patio area which was enclosed by cinder block by the building committee (and with a little help from some of us ‘need greaters’ )  Brothers from Guam and Phonpeii came and lived in the home while getting it ready for the translation team.  They have been here two months and are almost finished.  They hope to have the office running by September 1.

Anybody out there?

Needless to say we have been a little slow with any new pics. Hopefully these will get us back on track if anyone is out there. Picture one is taken from ocean side looking west on about the second week of May. About two weeks later the sunset would not be in this frame, so we take a short walk to the lagoon side to now in June to catch picture 2 as the sun sets now in the  lagoon probably into July before its’ return.

3. We drove out to the west end of Majuro to capture this one. Unlike this picture if there are no clouds on the very horizon we are told that just as the sun disappears it emits a green glow. We returned a week later for a congregation picnic to say goodbye to some of the construction team working on the translation home (STAY TUNED  for blog 2) as well as the CO and wife.  Most of us on a cloudless evening witnessed yet another one of our grand creators signatures of aw as the sun dropped into the sea and for only a brief second there sat on the horizon the most beautiful praiseworthy “greener than green emerald” to disappear to the viewers open mouthed expressions of “wow”  ,” did you see that”, a few  “I missed  it “(that would include Lynn which is good so we can go back camera in hand) ………………………   PRAISE JAH YOU SUN AND….