These Sundays remind me of many Sundays while in the Stake RS Presidency - meeting after meeting after meeting! We had early morning Church. During Sacrament Meeting the power went off and came back on about 20 times - then finally it just stayed off. They have a generator but were afraid that would also fail so moved everyone downstairs to different rooms. Many of the churches here have the Primary, Young Men and Women, Relief Society rooms on the bottom floor and the chapel on the top floor. So we moved downstairs but could not use the air conditioner so it was h-o-t.! Those who didn't have anything to use as a fan fell asleep during the lesson. There were two sisters from Barbaros who were visiting for a week to do temple work. I guess that island is an English speaking one because they couldn't understand the Spanish speaking teachers but their English is a different dialect than any I have heard!
We had a lesson at the Oriental Stake so got everything together to go there. I'm beginning to think they should have let us rent a truck. To haul 10 teclados, tables, teaching manuals and student manuals, and all of the other paraphernalia that goes with this job is taking up more and more space in the full trunk and the back seat. If we get stopped and robbed sometime they will think they hit a gold mine of things they could resale. We thought this class had mastered the conducting skills but in reviewing them found that not to be true. So instead of moving on to keyboard lessons we stayed with the conducting. Many of the parents had brought their kids and they sat in the back and watched with big smiles on their faces. They are so excited for their kids to have this experience.
The next meeting was in San Geronimo with the stake presidency and all of the bishoprics in their stake. They must have a huge stake because they had fifty plus people there. It gave us the opportunity to give them all the general music plan and let them know that we can help them (?)
One of the bishops want us to speak in his ward next week. Sad thing is I have to teach Primary in our ward so Scott will have to go alone. Too bad, huh? Primary is preferable to me! We were lost for much of the time trying to find the building but the Snows were already at the building and called to see where we were so they gave us some direction, and we found they were parked in front of the building and we were in back of the same building. It's amazing how big this city is. I don't know how Scott knows where he is going. Now I know why I didn't go on a mission as a young woman - I'm such a wimp! If I don't have ulcers from near miss car adventures here it will be a miracle..
Elders Mejia and Brimley
Got home just in time for Scott to call the missionaries so they could go up the street and teach John Paul. Neither the missionaries or John Paul showed up last time so our hopes weren't too high for tonight. But surprise, surprise - the missionaries came and John Paul was there and they actually had a good lesson with him. They came back up for ice cream and cookies. We had ice cream from Wilton's birthday party and Scott bought some boxed cookies from Price Mart to give away. We have seen them quite often as they come here to give lessons and come to our Ward on Sunday. They are the assistants to the West Mission president and they have tons of responsibilities. I have come to the conclusion that it is no fun to be an assistant to the president out here.
We had a lesson at the Oriental Stake so got everything together to go there. I'm beginning to think they should have let us rent a truck. To haul 10 teclados, tables, teaching manuals and student manuals, and all of the other paraphernalia that goes with this job is taking up more and more space in the full trunk and the back seat. If we get stopped and robbed sometime they will think they hit a gold mine of things they could resale. We thought this class had mastered the conducting skills but in reviewing them found that not to be true. So instead of moving on to keyboard lessons we stayed with the conducting. Many of the parents had brought their kids and they sat in the back and watched with big smiles on their faces. They are so excited for their kids to have this experience.
The next meeting was in San Geronimo with the stake presidency and all of the bishoprics in their stake. They must have a huge stake because they had fifty plus people there. It gave us the opportunity to give them all the general music plan and let them know that we can help them (?)
One of the bishops want us to speak in his ward next week. Sad thing is I have to teach Primary in our ward so Scott will have to go alone. Too bad, huh? Primary is preferable to me! We were lost for much of the time trying to find the building but the Snows were already at the building and called to see where we were so they gave us some direction, and we found they were parked in front of the building and we were in back of the same building. It's amazing how big this city is. I don't know how Scott knows where he is going. Now I know why I didn't go on a mission as a young woman - I'm such a wimp! If I don't have ulcers from near miss car adventures here it will be a miracle..
Elder Brimlely
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