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And so begins another chapter in my life. Having only been in my current job for 6 weeks, I have been offered a new one which I am taking! I have only one more week left at my job and then it’s onward and upwards to better things (I hope). Having turned down the full time job at ‘The Wendy House’ (which I felt really guilty about because when I rang the woman to turn it down, bearing in mind I’d taken a whole week to decide, she sounded really sad and told me that I was the only person she had been considering for the job and when I mentioned that it was a bit too far to travel to Beaconsfield before I passed my test, she offered to get someone to take me to and from my house and work every day…) I have now accepted a job as a receptionist at a NHS Dental Practise in Amersham. It is more money than I’m earning now, although it is slightly longer hours (8:30- 5:30) but I think it’ll be a move in the right direction. I won’t have targets to make, which I do now and I think it will be altogether a less stressful job. How hard can it be? *laughs nervously*. Anyway, they must have like me to offer me the job.Other than that, not much is happening in my life right now. I have just booked theatre tickets for: Carmen, Aspects of Love and Private Peaceful which I’m sure I’ll be blogging about at some time or another when I’ve actually seen them.

We currently have our Circuit Overseer’s visit. A circuit is basically a collection of congregations in the area and there is one man and his wife that travels around all of them in his circuit giving general instruction and encouragement. We had a really moving, almost inspirational DVD shown to us on Thursday. It was only 20 minutes long but it was so inspiring that I was close to tears the whole way though. It was about the program we have to help those in countries with limited resources to build Kingdom Halls and have a respectable place to worship. I didn’t realise until then that we have 5 different regions that cover the whole world from Southern America to Eastern Europe an

Africa. It has been set up since 1999 and in just the first six years over 11,500 Kingdom Halls have been built. However, it highlighted the fact that over 13,000 still need to be built in order to keep up with demand. I can’t tell you all how emotional it is seeing so much joy on people’s faces. It really brought home to me how lucky we are here to take it for granted to have a wonderful Kingdom Hall that we can meet freely in. Some of the brothers in Africa and in the countries that were formerly part of the

USSR expressed such intense gratitude that you could not fail to be moved. They spoke of the great pride that they have as often, in the poorer villages in rural parts of

Africa the Kingdom Hall is a point of reference. One man said that he’d asked a non-witness where he lived and he said “By the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses”. Now they have their own place of worship, more and more people attend the meetings and it is with great pride that they talk about the International Brotherhood to which they belong. I shouldn’t go on too much more about this but it was definitely a major highlight of my week that I wanted to share with you.

Anyway…take care all of you…

xxxxxx