Report of July 21 and 22 in Van

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Friday morning we went to swim in the Van lake. This lake was formed in the crater of a volcano so the water is full of soda and we passed a relaxing moment.

At 17:30 in the evening we went to the bookstore. A poster had been put in the entrance of the bookstore with a beautiful presentation table, prepared by the manager  who always welcomes us very warmly.

Quickly, something passes and many  persons go to the table to get information. Contacts multiply and a joyful atmosphere fills the space.

We distributed presentation flyers with inspiration and surprising things happen. Murad, a person who enters the bookstore, arrives with a tense face, after reading the flyer, something relaxes inside him, such a resonance comes up that he buys the book and starts distributing flyers to passers-by he knows. He will come to the ceremonies at 21 with a big smile he will not loose.

Yuksel  introduces us to 2 friends who live in Van and who also come to the ceremony at night.

The bookstore closes at 19h and we go eat at the restaurant close by. They set us up on the first floor and Fraat, a person coming from the website “couch surfing” joins us. Next to us are various young women and a young man about to eat. Attracted by the atmosphere in our table, one of the women comes to us and relationships are created. Quickly a proposal of ceremonies  arises. Suddenly, tables are moved and we are in a circle with 15 people and the waiter, doing the ceremony of Well Being. It is read by one of the women. Something happens among us and the woman ends up very moved

We go out of the restaurant to do the 21h ceremony in the hotel. We do a Service and various testimonies follow.  
We end this wonderful day in a café. 
In total, 10 new persons participate  in our ceremonies.

Ramadam is not a problem for the Message.

On Saturday the same pattern follows. At breakfast already a relationship is created with 2 Italians from Naples who we invite to our ceremonies. In the morning we go on a very inspiring visit to the island Agmatar and its Armenian church.

We set off accompanied by Octay to take a bus and a boat. We met 2 Swiss girls with whom we share a visit and a swim. Of course we invited them to the ceremonies later on.

On the way back from our bus trip towards Van, we imagined the presence of a Park in this region. It is very inspiring since we are so close to Iran, Armenia, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and from here we could irradiate the whole region.

At 17:30 we are again in the bookstore sharing the positive waves of Silo’s Message with many people.

A girl who had bought the book 2 days later (in a moment we were not there) learns from her friends we are here everyday at the end of the afternoon.

So she comes  to meet us to tell us the impact the Ceremony of Death has had on her.

A journalist who is here by chance, comes to get information and pictures to write an article for a local newspaper.

One of the women who had done the ceremony at the restaurant the day before also comes, bringing a friend.

Other persons from the Couch surfing website also come to know more about Silo’s Message.

It’s time to eat and we patiently wait for the time to break the fasting.

At night we are in the hotel with Murad to do 2 very beautiful ceremonies.

Tour Team:  Maribel, Federica,  Yuksel,  Alain, Christophe, Judith, Eduardo,  Balasz , Ana.