It really seems like Sunday traveling to chapels all over. We worked this morning on our lessons and found that we once again had given away all of our conducting books so Scott went to the Tienda to get another book. He came home with two but when we got ready to work on the lesson he had picked up two English books instead of Spanish books. At least we had the CD to work with!
It had started to rain before we left for Hainamosa but while we were there it rained so hard on the roof of the church that you couldn't even hear anyone talking. They said one hurricane had just passed by and another was beginning. By the time we left to come home there was so much water everywhere the streets were flooded- six or so inches on the low side of the road. It made it difficult to drive and almost impossible to see the open manholes in the road ; plus all of the huge holes in the roads that were filled with water. No wonder their roads are so bad! We were relieved to get home in one piece but found that we had left some windows open a few inches and there was water standing on the floors in the low spots.
At the meeting we met three or so missionaries who were having a baptism in the same building. One of them came back into the room we were teaching in and asked me to come to the door. He was a handsome young elder. He said his aunt had told him to look the Rees' up because he is here in Santo Domingo. His aunt is Nanette Brown! You could see the resemblance because he has those pretty eyes that Nanette has. It was so fun to talk to him. He was actually the one baptizing the two investigators. Even better is when we got home I tried to call Nanette. Jim answered the phone and they were on their way home from San Diego where they had been for a week. I can't believe we got ahold of them. It was really fun to talk to Nanette and hear how her family is doing.
Oh I forgot the best part of the meeting. There was a sister setting by herself waiting for class to start so I went over and tried to talk to her. Come to find out she could speak some English. She said, "Oh you sing in the Tabernacle Choir, right? " I didn't want to be rude but I couldn't hold back the laughter. She said I looked so familiar to her she just knew that I sang with the Choir. I told her that I looked familiar because, after all. we are sisters.
On of the best things about teaching music to these people in Hainamosa is they just break out in song - it doesn't matter what is going on. They love music! I absolutely love working with them. Of course all I am doing is playing the keyboard and working the CD on the computer. There are coordinating things on a disc that go with the lessons so that helps. We may not know much but the church certainly puts out good aids to teach it's programs.
Elder Esplin in the Dominican Republic. Happy to be baptizing two converts.
It had started to rain before we left for Hainamosa but while we were there it rained so hard on the roof of the church that you couldn't even hear anyone talking. They said one hurricane had just passed by and another was beginning. By the time we left to come home there was so much water everywhere the streets were flooded- six or so inches on the low side of the road. It made it difficult to drive and almost impossible to see the open manholes in the road ; plus all of the huge holes in the roads that were filled with water. No wonder their roads are so bad! We were relieved to get home in one piece but found that we had left some windows open a few inches and there was water standing on the floors in the low spots.
At the meeting we met three or so missionaries who were having a baptism in the same building. One of them came back into the room we were teaching in and asked me to come to the door. He was a handsome young elder. He said his aunt had told him to look the Rees' up because he is here in Santo Domingo. His aunt is Nanette Brown! You could see the resemblance because he has those pretty eyes that Nanette has. It was so fun to talk to him. He was actually the one baptizing the two investigators. Even better is when we got home I tried to call Nanette. Jim answered the phone and they were on their way home from San Diego where they had been for a week. I can't believe we got ahold of them. It was really fun to talk to Nanette and hear how her family is doing.
Oh I forgot the best part of the meeting. There was a sister setting by herself waiting for class to start so I went over and tried to talk to her. Come to find out she could speak some English. She said, "Oh you sing in the Tabernacle Choir, right? " I didn't want to be rude but I couldn't hold back the laughter. She said I looked so familiar to her she just knew that I sang with the Choir. I told her that I looked familiar because, after all. we are sisters.
On of the best things about teaching music to these people in Hainamosa is they just break out in song - it doesn't matter what is going on. They love music! I absolutely love working with them. Of course all I am doing is playing the keyboard and working the CD on the computer. There are coordinating things on a disc that go with the lessons so that helps. We may not know much but the church certainly puts out good aids to teach it's programs.
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