Underground Cistern

Today we went and saw the Archeological Museum and a huge underground cistern. They used to fill the Cisterns to the ceiling with water reserves just in case there was a battle and the enemy poisoned their water supply. There is supposed to be like 12, but they have only found a few of them.


After that we went on a short cruise around the Bosphorus. At the last minute we found out that some brothers and sisters from the Istanbul branch were going to go with us. That was fun, and we spent most of the cruise talking to them. There are only 44 brothers and sisters at the branch, and 17 of them work in the translation department. And there are 2400 witnesses in Turkey. And there are 71,000,000 people. So they have a lot of work to do. 99% of the country is Muslim.


Then when we got back, some of the brothers and sisters from a local congregation came by the hotel to say hi. Some of them are there to help out in the Russian language congregation.