Too tired last night to blog after the temple but an experience there was a perfect end to the night. Scott was assigned to help an English speaking group of men through the session so I was sitting in the foyer waiting for him. A group of young and older teens were coming up from doing baptisms when I looked up this young man caught my eye. He was smiling from ear to ear. He rushed over to where I was sitting, grabbed my hand and sat down by me. "Hermana, the temple is so beautiful, so beautiful" he just kept repeating with such excitement it was catching! A supervisor came over and got him but the feeling he emanated remained with me for the rest of the night.
We received a music plan from Pres. Ompero last night for his Institute program. Absolutely perfect for helping with the music. Here the Perpetual Education Fund of the church that helps adults further their education stipulates that you also enroll in an Institute class. As one of their classes they are offering keyboard training for students who promise to go back into their wards and play for their sacrament meetings. We attended a meeting of all of the Institute Directors in the entire Caribe area to present to them ideas on including music in their agendas. Apparently some of the Islands have English speaking people because five or so of them needed things translated into English. What a refreshing change!!
Some dough head left a pen on the tray of the printer and it slid down into the gears of the printer so when I turned it on one of the gears broke. ( And yes, it was me) So we had to leave early to go to the Area Office and get copies made of papers to hand out. I am including a picture of one of the secretaries there who is amazing. He spent over an hour this morning helping us figure out how to get the emails off our phone. How sad is that?? What I wouldn't give for my old phone.. He informed me that cookies were the payment for his services. He has this smile that is amazing - lights up the whole room.
We took the printer to this place to be fixed but think it will cost us more to fix it than to buy another one at Price Mart. Plus we need the printer before the next month or so - Dominican time.
They called a day or so ago to tell us that the car we had was one of the fleet assigned to the welfare department and they wanted to keep it in their fleet so we were to go exchange it for another one. And here is it:
We received a music plan from Pres. Ompero last night for his Institute program. Absolutely perfect for helping with the music. Here the Perpetual Education Fund of the church that helps adults further their education stipulates that you also enroll in an Institute class. As one of their classes they are offering keyboard training for students who promise to go back into their wards and play for their sacrament meetings. We attended a meeting of all of the Institute Directors in the entire Caribe area to present to them ideas on including music in their agendas. Apparently some of the Islands have English speaking people because five or so of them needed things translated into English. What a refreshing change!!
Some dough head left a pen on the tray of the printer and it slid down into the gears of the printer so when I turned it on one of the gears broke. ( And yes, it was me) So we had to leave early to go to the Area Office and get copies made of papers to hand out. I am including a picture of one of the secretaries there who is amazing. He spent over an hour this morning helping us figure out how to get the emails off our phone. How sad is that?? What I wouldn't give for my old phone.. He informed me that cookies were the payment for his services. He has this smile that is amazing - lights up the whole room.
We took the printer to this place to be fixed but think it will cost us more to fix it than to buy another one at Price Mart. Plus we need the printer before the next month or so - Dominican time.
They called a day or so ago to tell us that the car we had was one of the fleet assigned to the welfare department and they wanted to keep it in their fleet so we were to go exchange it for another one. And here is it:
Do you think they thought this gray car was more our color?? Not quite as flashy as the blue one but runs and has a great air conditioner. Elder Yturraldie was there loading scrap wood that he gathered to build a new house for the Relief Society president in the branch they help with. Elder Eickbush got there before we left with my second mother's day package. What happiness letters, drawings, etc from home bring!! I am so grateful our family hasn't forgotten us yet. By next year we'll have to remind them they have parents!
Scott finally agreed to look for a store that would have a hair dryer and a watch. We found the Plaza Llama that was five floors of everything you can imagine. One entire half a floor was shoes - now that wasn't too much of a surprise. We found the hair dryer and a watch. Trying to find something cheap that wouldn't be stolen off my wrist was interesting, but we did it..
Across the street from us is a restaurant called "Adam's Rib" (in English). We went there to eat a while back and there was a table of four men that looked like seedy characters. Last night there were cars parked all along the street and the place was packed and noisy. From the looks of the cars it was definitely a party for the wealthier people in town. So that made it either the drug lords or the professional sports people and since the sports people are playing baseball in the US that only leaves the other group. We are hearing much about drugs here with the elections. There are huge new buildings being built everywhere here but no one has the money to rent them so they just set empty. Apparently only the drug people can afford to build to and let it set. Running drugs is probably attractive to these people who earn almost nothing if they are not educated.
While in the Casa this morning I found this quote that clarified some things for me; I want to keep it so will include it:
"Whatever weakens your reason; whatever increases the authority of your body over your mind; whatever impairs the tenderness of your conscience; whatever takes away your relish from spiritual things, whatever obscures your sense of God; that is sin to you , no matter how innocent it may seem in itself"
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