During the week-long visits, final preparations were being made for the “Pure Language” District Convention to be held at the best theater in the city. (Zephaniah 3:9) Along with the local people, delegates from the islands of Santo Antão and São Nicolau brought the attendance to a peak of 756. Twenty-four persons were baptized. The program included a Bible drama presented by the Witnesses. A man who was the rehearsal director for a film production attended the drama and observed: “We trained for a year and even then we had a lot of problems. The participants in your drama did much better with only two months of training.” With the successful conclusion of the convention, it was time for us to move on to the city of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde Republic, on the island of São Tiago.

As we arrived, the brothers were busy preparing for their district convention. Witnesses and interested persons from all over São Tiago as well as the islands of Sal and Fogo made their way to the convention, and Jehovah blessed them with a peak attendance of 472. Everyone was so happy, including the many little ones with shining faces! As we sat in the midst of that attentive throng, it was evident that we should never despise “the day of small things.” (Zechariah 4:10) All of this had grown from two persons who learned the truth just over 30 years ago!