Unusual features of our church building

This cage is in the front corner of the churchyard close to the street. I think it was created as a dog pen.

This is the front porch of the church facing the street. It works out great for English class. The class congregates here prior to the start.

There is not much water pressure here so like most buildings our church has a water tank on the roof.

This is the water pump that we have to plug in each time we at church. It pumps the water up to the tank.

Whenever we plug in the water pump water starts to leak out of one of the pipes. We've tried to get it fixed but no luck so far.

This is the baptismal font in an enclosed side yard of the church. It is outdoors with an awning that covers it. It's fairly tall and the stairs are pretty steep. It takes 2 days to fill up the font because it drains the water tank twice.

This is the front of the church from the street. As you can see on top of the wall is barbed wire. There is barbed wire on three sides of the church. Almost every wall in the entire country has barbed wire on it.

All of the windows in the church have guards over them. None of the windows open.

Rather than central air conditioning the church building has localized air conditioners that each can be turned on separately. In our building there are six of them. They were quite well.

This is the woman's bathroom. It was originally a full bathroom with a bathtub. The landlord did not want to remove the bathtub so they created a false wall in front of it. The restrooms as well as the kitchen are not air-conditioned.

This is our kitchen. It has a refrigerator, sink, microwave and hot Plate. No oven. We keep a 10 L container of water in the refrigerator. Because you can't drink the water the building of course has no drinking fountains.

These are the electrical outlets around the building. Of course they're different than what is in the United States. What makes it complicated is that there are three different types of plugs here. We have lots of adapters.

We have no organs so we use this keyboard. Unfortunately no one plays the keyboard. So we use recorded music off of my tablet. When we sing the hymns, because there are so few of us, we use recorded church hymns that have vocal accompaniments.

The building does have the standard-issue church pictures. It makes it feel familiar.

This is the back side and back porch of the church. In the rear of the picture is a separate building which has two classrooms and the men's bathroom.

The landlord's mother lives directly behind the building. This is actually very helpful as they water the landscape and they keep a close eye on the building. The landlord's name is Arturo. He is very easy to deal with and is helpful on getting things fixed right away.

The building standards here are probably equal to 1920s in the United States.  This is the wiring leading to the main electrical panel. In the time we've been here the church has never had a significant power interruption.

We are very lucky to have a building like this. It is a great fit for our English classes. It's a pretty big structure for a group of saints that are not even a group or a branch and there are only five of them. I think it was obtained in expectation of the missionaries coming to the area and the church growing rapidly. We hope they come soon.