Finished at Last!

The park is close to the молитвенный дом (house of prayer) where two of our branches meet.  The project to clean, repair and paint was organized by the two Branch Presidents and supervised by Старейшина Хатч (Elder Hatch).  Workers were branch members and a lot of young missionaries.  As the work progressed passing observers made positive comments of praise and encouragement.

Each day a different zone would come to paint. Most of the paint ended up where it was supposed to but in the process, we learned that the missionaries who do the most work are not the ones who get the most paint on themselves, and that all missionaries are not created equal.  The city government is very pleased with this "missionary work" and we desperately need more acceptance by the government.  Our work was not in vain. In a few days we will dump a few trucks of sand around the "slide man" and scatter it around. The whole park was huge.  It is not easy to grasp the size of this gigantic slide until you are beneath it looking up.