A morning Institute class was interrupted by the fact that the college professors are on strike and so the kids did not have class. They don't have the money to come in just for one class so we only had eight students there. It was very nice have the time to work more individually with each of them.
These kids are just starting the keyboard class. Got home in time to have lunch then leave to pick up the Leavitts for a trip out to Los Llanos for our first lesson there. It is an hour and a half drive to get there with roads that rival the Hianamosa highway - bad!! It was fun to spend time with the Leavitts though. Here is their church which is also the community center:
The area on the left hand side of the picture was some kind of a garden.
We got there before anyone else (except a man named Confessor). I thought that must be part of a job with the church out here because who would name their son Confessor! When some young boys came Scott entertained them with his now famous string trick: even he can't figure out why it works!
As we were loading up to come home the missionaries from the Piantini Ward called to see if we could come to a lesson they were having with the Denish's at 6:00. We were in one traffic jam after another as we hit the city so didn't get back in time. I told them we probably wouldn't be home and to call the Yturralde's but they didn't so hope everything went well. Reetha's husband is home for the week so it's a good time to have a lesson with them.
Tomorrow morning before lessons at the Institute we have to get the programs for the recital on Sunday printed off along with the certificates. Since we have a lesson in San Cristobal and can't get to Oriental until just before the recital we are just going to pick up some dry old cookies from Price Mart for refreshments. But since we had to have the program ok'd by President Diaz this morning at the institute, I haven't got it all together so I have much to do tonight!
These kids are just starting the keyboard class. Got home in time to have lunch then leave to pick up the Leavitts for a trip out to Los Llanos for our first lesson there. It is an hour and a half drive to get there with roads that rival the Hianamosa highway - bad!! It was fun to spend time with the Leavitts though. Here is their church which is also the community center:
We got there before anyone else (except a man named Confessor). I thought that must be part of a job with the church out here because who would name their son Confessor! When some young boys came Scott entertained them with his now famous string trick: even he can't figure out why it works!
In this group there are as many non-members as there are members. Don't know why they want to learn to play the hymns but it can only be a good thing for them. Many in the class are under 20 but there are four men over 40 in there. One who is probably close to 80. It was much harder for them to pick up the rhythm.
Here are the Leavitt's - grateful that they didn't have to teach !
We have been out to this ward twice before - just visiting. This is the ward where we gave the little girls gum and one of those girls is actually in our class. Then there was the older teenage boy who wrote me a note about how clean of a boy he was and could we find him a job who came around to the window by the keyboard and was asking me if I remembered him. How could I have forgotten because I never did really know what he meant by "clean" and certainly didn't want to ask.
As we were loading up to come home the missionaries from the Piantini Ward called to see if we could come to a lesson they were having with the Denish's at 6:00. We were in one traffic jam after another as we hit the city so didn't get back in time. I told them we probably wouldn't be home and to call the Yturralde's but they didn't so hope everything went well. Reetha's husband is home for the week so it's a good time to have a lesson with them.
Tomorrow morning before lessons at the Institute we have to get the programs for the recital on Sunday printed off along with the certificates. Since we have a lesson in San Cristobal and can't get to Oriental until just before the recital we are just going to pick up some dry old cookies from Price Mart for refreshments. But since we had to have the program ok'd by President Diaz this morning at the institute, I haven't got it all together so I have much to do tonight!
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