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| Our Wallkill room |
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| Breakfast the first day with the Wrights and Bartletts |
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| Friends we met from New Jersey Chinese (and Japanese cong). |
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| We were always making friends in the hallways |
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| These brothers wanted to hang with us and share their Hawaiian stories. |
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| Ronnie gave us a personal tour |
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| Here's another brother from Hawaii! |
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| And another... Brother Tuzan |
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| Brother Rutherford's Bible and his shorthand notes |
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| the colors are actually tiny dots |
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| They are called signatures. The paper is a thousand dollars! |
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| Ronnie even knows how many signatures should be in each direction! And she works in HVAC! |
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| Everything in Wallkill gets recycled... except for this. |
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| hand bindery |
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| Ronnie's HVAC team (far left corner) |
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| Ronnie's desk |
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| The Cafeteria |
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| Lunch with The Wrights and Bartletts. Krista's guests are from her hometown. |
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| Wallkill's temp work |
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| Watchtower's Fire Dept. |
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| There are 8 firefighters that meet once a week. They have other jobs. |
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| Black Angus Beef |
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| Wallkill's kitchen |
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| Eric gave us a tour of the kitchen |
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| Point taken! |
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| Krista and Corban's new assignment: Video and Media Production |
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| They document any developments going on |
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| Daniel Rice works with donated properties... in Hawaii! |
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| My fave breakfast. My first soft boiled eggs. |
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| Kui, another Hawaiian dude. He's been here for 1 year! |
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| triplets |
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| Tiffany's dept, the Hand Bindery |
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| Mike's dept, he is in charge of keeping the power on for Wallkill, he is also one of the 8 firemen |
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| The Wright's Congregation, Catskill (1:15 min. drive) |
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| Sharing about the Chuukese (Micronesia) cong. in Hawaii |
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| Other bethelites in Catskill Cong. Tonight is one of their last nights. |
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| Jordan |
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| Patterson with Eric |
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| Patterson's lobby |
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| Auditorium |
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| Patterson's Kitchen |
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| We had lunch as guests |
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| Props used for illustrations |
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| They have to be as historically accurate as possible |
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| GB room |
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| Our tour group |
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| Rob, our tour guide (left) and Sentry Wong from Hawaii (right) |
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| Brother (& sister) Oshiro now assigned to Patterson from Hawaii |
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| Brother Oshiro's office room |
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| Debi Ponce is in charge of all the pioneers... maybe in the world? |
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| "I love pioneers! I just wanna hug you!" |
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| She's a lovable character |
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| this dept. is going paperless! |
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| Eric's former kitchen boss is now in charge of Circuit Overseer's dealings |
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| The illustrations are all over the buildings. Some are very emotional! |
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| Dinner at the Wrights with Eric and the Bittings |
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| Jesse Young, nephew of the late Rod Young from Hawaii. He is in the same cong. as the Wrights. |
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| Ronnie and Rick |
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| Our last day |
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| GB launching pad |
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| Wallkill's lobby |
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| This was my first time coming through here (on the last day). I thought Bldg B lobby was the lobby! |
I told Gary we might as well go home now. I don't think Brooklyn can top Wallkill! LOL!!!
Rick, Ronnie and Eric made it so memorable!
Off to Brooklyn!!!
