First Day of the Campaign Adventures!!

August 1st, exciting stuff!! The start of the biggest preaching month ever, while getting to advertise JW.ORG. And our month started out exceptionally exciting.

Here we are all excited for the campaign (and a little bit still trying to wake ourselves up).

The started out like any other. We posed for a picture, the all piled into a car since the territory was a little far out. What made this morning special however (other than our bags packed with lots of yellow tracts and devises ready to show the video [ http://www.jw.org/en/video-why-study-the-bible/ ] to anyone who would watch) was the circus was in town. It wasn't quite all set up but the animals were on the grounds in their cages. So we decided to stop (saying we would start our morning by doing a little bit of informal witnessing) and see the animals, who's cages you could walk right up to.

Sorry about the instagram screenshot, but Jonas got really good pictures of the animals and I Picaso wouldn't let me crop them. :/

There were around 10 jaguars (okay so we're not entirely sure these were jaguars they could have also been cheetahs or leopards, but we called them jaguars so for the sake of the story we will call them that). On a side note, how do you tell the difference between those large cats....I suppose I could google it, but...nah.

There were many animals we didn't get pictures of too, like lions, camels, llamas, sheep, ect.

But still even with lions there (and llamas which are just awesome animals... at least according to the Emperor's New Groove and Napolian Dynamite which is all the experience I have with llamas, still, good experiences) the Jaguars were the most memorable. Ben is a brother in our group from Mexico who decided since the jaguars cage wasn't as secure as say the lions they were okay to be played with, turns out they weren't... He played with them patting their paws and they would swat back, good times until one of the caught his finger. It snagged it open, evidently to the point some flesh was coming out (although I purposely didn't see that part).

To help it, he cleaned it up with some water, since it was bleeding a lot (as you can see on the ground there). Then he left to go to the doctor, where he got somewhere around 7 stitches. At the next meeting he said he could feel the needle giving him the stitches since it wasn't completely numb, that was enough to turn my stomach. That being said my dad does have some more... graphic pictures of his wound, but I will not share those, for the sake of those who have a weak stomach. 

You will all be happy to know only 2 weeks later it is healing up nicely, the stitches are out and it now just looks like a nasty scratch, which is pretty impressive if you ask me.

So, the lesson learned here is to wait until paradise to play with wild animals!