A Few Good Moments

GNAB:

It was an ok outing, with most houses being unaswered, but still there were a few good moments.

We met a nice person Bruce Kerans. He was watching a movie, but he paused it and listened to Sri Krishna P Pr explaining him the BG. He knew about George Harrison and his involvement with Hare Krishnas. He is going through some tough phase in life and was very excited to know more and has shown desire to attend the lectures next week. Although unemployed currently, he gave a nice donation of 40$.

Sri Krishna P Pr explains the BG nicely to American devotees and a few people took the BG and gave good donations. It was nice learning experience accompanying him.

Nilesh Pr / Neelam M met an Indian lady and she was happy to get the BG. She gave a nice donation. She gave a 50$ donation, but had second thoughts and asked to take only 25, but, still ended up given 30$. We can approach her later for New temple fund.

Nilesh Pr also met a person who started arguing about why the BG should not be given free, when Bibles are available for free in motels. He was more a Hindu activist and didnt agree to the concept of BG being distributed to all. Finally, they gave him a small pack and got some donation although he intially refused.

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Nilesh Pr met one guy, who was trying to create problems. So they thought it wise to retreat from that area, so missed 2-3 apt blocks.

With one team having gone to San Ramon, some of us decided to stay local and join Chandra Pr. who normally services this spot. We had a couple of new devotees who enthusiastically joined us. Initially, we started as a small group that quickly grew in number as Sukheswari dd & family, DVD Pr and Hariguru Pr also joined us. In no time devotees were all over the place enthusiastically distributing book packs and Bhagavad Gitas. DVD prabhu worked the adjoining shops and distributed many packs. All this enthusiasm drew shoppers to our book table, causing Ravi Puranam Pr to start showing books to them (his first debut in book distribution, we were told). Everyone participated and much energy and enthusiasm was generated before rain interrupted a 2-hour spell in which many books were distributed. Not encumbered, some devotees stayed on and continued to distribute more books after a brief interruption.

Contributors

Hariharan Pr & Raxit Pr