It's 8:00 and we just got home for the day. Left around 8:00 this morning to pick up the kids for church. Scott had called Alta Graci and asked her to have the kids ready at 8:30. Well of course they were running on Dominican time and didn't make it to the car until after 9:00. We had William's three kids and Alta Graci's three but no cousins today! They want to know when they can come back to our house - they agreed that Monday would be good and Scott was shaking his finger at me "No, no, no!" We really love these kids. I had two on my lap - one on each leg - through most of Sacrament Meeting. Then Katy sat beside me and kept kissing me on the cheek which her sister wiped off each time - by the time church was over the makeup on that side of my face was nonexistent. They pat your hair and hug you until you look like a limp dishrag - and it's great. We are a bit exhausted after taking the kids to church! We get home and have fifteen minutes to eat and get ready to go teach lessons 25 miles from here in San Crystobol then travel 35-40 miles back and through the city to get to Oriental for the next lesson. Then another 20 miles to Hainamosa to give them the teclados to practice with during the week.
Back to the morning - It is so interesting to pull into the Tres Brasos church building (where we take the kids) and see there is only one other car there. You would think no one is there but when you walk into the building it is full of people and more trail in for the next hour. When we picked up the kids they had gone down the street to a store and bought crackers for breakfast. And we added to that nutritious breakfast by giving them sugar cookies I had made during the week! Nice, huh. We are going to have to start taking granola bars or something that will give them some nutrition.
While you are in class or Relief Society women come by the open door and if they aren't coming in they stand in the doorway and blow kisses into the room. I wish I could get a video because it is a "you have to be there" experience! They express themselves many times by touching different places on their faces - by their eyes, mouth, ears, temples, etc. I still don't know what it all means! It is hard for me to get used to how they get up and go talk to each other or walk out and back in three or four times while the teacher is teaching. Just a different culture than ours and fun to observe unless you are trying desperately to figure out what they are saying!
I am so grateful to have been blessed with safety as we traveled today. It's only 9:00 pm and I am ready for bed.
Back to the morning - It is so interesting to pull into the Tres Brasos church building (where we take the kids) and see there is only one other car there. You would think no one is there but when you walk into the building it is full of people and more trail in for the next hour. When we picked up the kids they had gone down the street to a store and bought crackers for breakfast. And we added to that nutritious breakfast by giving them sugar cookies I had made during the week! Nice, huh. We are going to have to start taking granola bars or something that will give them some nutrition.
While you are in class or Relief Society women come by the open door and if they aren't coming in they stand in the doorway and blow kisses into the room. I wish I could get a video because it is a "you have to be there" experience! They express themselves many times by touching different places on their faces - by their eyes, mouth, ears, temples, etc. I still don't know what it all means! It is hard for me to get used to how they get up and go talk to each other or walk out and back in three or four times while the teacher is teaching. Just a different culture than ours and fun to observe unless you are trying desperately to figure out what they are saying!
I am so grateful to have been blessed with safety as we traveled today. It's only 9:00 pm and I am ready for bed.
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