Among other things, she showed to us old CD's that were recorded in various languages.
It was a very simple contraption. The CD was in a cardboard envelope that could be unfolded. One of the sides had a sharp point stuck to it:
This point was placed on the CD, and placing whatever was round (in our case, a pen) in the hole on one of the sides of the white circle and starting to make the CD rotate, the Gospel could be heard.
The lady told me this was started when a lady went to preach in South America, and really enjoyed and loved it. One day she fell sick and had to go back to the USA. Her sickness was somewhat serious and she had to stay in bed for a while, and she became worried that the people she's preached to wouldn't hear the Good News any more, so she had her voice reading the Gospel recorded on these CD's in the language they spoke, and then had them sent to the village where she'd been. It was so easy to make them work that everybody could listen to God's word once again.
I really enjoyed her stay, and if you could pray for her and her work with the sailor men, I'm sure she would appreciate it!
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Well, that's not a CD (Compact Disk, 12cm of diameter and made of plastic), it's a "gramophone record" or "vinil disk", also known as LP (30cm of diameter and made of vinil).
My father can convert music or whatever is recorded in those vinil disks to mp3 audio, so you can listen again those ol' music in your computer, or burn them to a CD.
That way we don't lose our precious music if those ancient disk broke in pieces!
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