Home Visit Part II on Saturday, 28 August 2007

Report by Vafa Bayat:

We started the day with devotions at Collin Nasseri's home, and then jumped into an intensive deepening on two subjects—love/unity and the 19 Day Feast. As a group, we read through selected passages on each of them, making sure that we understood what all the words meant, and then we split up into groups to discuss them at greater length. I was paired with Raj, and we carefully went through them line by line, and he explained to me in his own words what each sentence was saying. We then returned to the bigger group, and each of the three youth present, Raj Parmer, Badi Misaqi, and Bobak Reihani took turns to present both of the topics, we listened, encouraged each other, and laughed. Then we all had a lovely lunch cooked by Samarih, and set off to visit Robert, a newly declared Baha'i. While there we also got to see Michelle and her daughter, Diamond. We talked to Robert about love and unity and had a wonderful discussed for probably two hours, as he shared with us his feelings on many subjects including war and the plight of the youth and the story of how he had first met Baha'is in the 70's in Galveston, and we cheered him up by giving him hope on all these things. At length we discussed the breakup of the Old World Order and the building of the new one, the importance of starting early with teaching children's classes, and several other Biblical subjects. With warm hugs and reminders that we were all always welcome in his home, we set off to our next home—in Clearlake, where we spent time with a newly declared Baha'i named Maria and her son Gabriel. It was a very joyful meeting, prayers were said, presentation by Bauback on the topic of love and unity was discussed, and we talked with her about her great love for everyone and how she wanted to express it to everyone and change the world. We praised her for this, encouraged it, and assured her that other people's spirits could feel her love for them, even if they might not show it. Also Badi gave a wonderful presentation the 19 Day Feast. And thus we left, with joy in our hearts.