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Post by withopeneyes (Mandy) on Jul 25, 2007 11:16:34 GMT -5
Its impossible to keep everyone at convention happy when it comes to meals. I do know that all conventions will help out those with strict diets or allergies- because they did so for my mom and for various other people I know. You just have to go in the back and DO IT YOURSELF YOU LAZY BUM.
*grin*
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Post by Food Nazi on Jul 26, 2007 2:51:26 GMT -5
Theres always whole meal bread and preserves.... And the occasional fresh fruit
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Post by ranman77007 on Jul 26, 2007 3:08:27 GMT -5
one year i was living in my car in vista, ca. i had not been to meetings in a while, but i didn't want to miss convention. so i drove my green pinto wagon to santee, but i parked at the bottom of the hill, around the corner from pure flo water co. i snuck into convention... it was thursday morning, and i had just enough time to lay my pillow and a blanket on a bunk, and go to the first meeting.... afterward, i got in the cafeteria line to eat, and just before i got to where they fill your tray, there was a sign on the screen door that said CALLINA PINTA...i didn't know what that meant (cactus and beans), but to me it said "call in a pinto"... and i felt so welcomed, like i was being told to move my pinto into the main parking lot, and be part of the convention. some meals you never forget. even if you don't know what it is.
i professed in that convention, for the second time.... sept. 9th, cant remember the year... early 90s'.. i had to borrow gas money to get home. one of the elders wives, i did'nt even know her, came to me on sunday evening and gave me $5.00. my pinto had no gas in it at all... i didn't think i was going to make it there. i never paid that money back... wouldn't even know how to....
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Post by ranman77007 on Jul 26, 2007 3:19:58 GMT -5
some time that same year, a few months before, i was so hurt. i was in love with my friend tony vinci's girlfriend (julie daily)... i had been driving her all over southern california, every day for weeks, taking her to job interviews (in my pinto !!) renting an upstairs room from them.... i told her, and she said thats not good.... and tony is still my friend, and knows this... i was honest with everyone back then.... learning experiences..lol anyway, one night my heart was broken, and i missed God's people so much. i have never told anyone this, ever until right now... it was nearing dark, and i didn't have anywhere to go, i was all alone, and i drove toward santee convention grounds, i was going to climb the hill, and just sleep in the grass where the meeting tent would be in a few months, and pray and be close to God... as i drove along, the song on my radio played, "i think we're alone now, there doesn't seem to be anyone around... i think we're alone now... the beating our heart is the only sound.... there is more, i didn't even mention that there was a glowing cloud in the sky in front of me, after the sun was down... i tried so hard to figure what was causing this little cloud shaped thing to be glowing over the pacific... i think a week later i heard about some experiment with phophorescent something or other in the skies..... but i don't know what it was. i had never driven to the grounds myself, and i got lost on mission gorge road and zion blvd... and that made me even sadder, but i remember that night, will never forget, and this is the first time i ever told anyone....... did i ever tell that before? hmmm, i don't think so, but i guess thats about it....except that it was the same year i ate with all the workers every morning, because i kept missing the first breakfast, and i didnt know, sure i'd recognize a worker or two at the table, but i didn't know it was all workers.
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