These tickets were non-transferable tickets given to exemplary long-time Christians. My Mom although she's been in the truth from the 70's, didn't get a ticket because in her congregation there were many more brothers and sister in the truth longer than her.
In my Chuukese congregation, our newest publisher, Niwine got invited because we have a smaller publisher count, even though we also have a lot of long-timers.
The talks were tied in from Patterson, prerecorded.
We sat in back of the sign language group.
It was exciting to see NY on the big screen in real time.
