Behind again - maybe that's the new normal for me. On Tuesday morning we picked up the Walkers and went to sign them up for Internet. When we got there the area president's secretary called and said they were already signed up they just needed to wait for the guy in charge of that kind of thing to take care of their getting the service activated. He said they want to train these people to be responsible. Problem with that is it's weeks before they "get around to it" and there you are with no way to communicate with home. They do have service in the doctor's office in the Casa though. It has been fun getting to know them. We went shopping at the only store in Santo Domingo that has Miracle Whip salad dressing - and other American things! Elder Walker actually reminds me alot of Brent. It was so fun to spend some time with Sister Walker after months of emailing back and forth. They will be a great asset to the mission!
In the evening we went to the Gasgue Chapel to teach a class. When we got there all of the benches from the Chapel were in the room we teach in getting refurnished and stained. So of course there was nothing in the Chapel so we took tables in and set up our class in there. Every chapel here has folding chairs or pews that can be moved. The "cool kid" has actually turned into someone who really wants to learn. One of the younger boys in the class looks like he is from India - he is talented but has no attention span. Keeping him on task is a full time job! He is such a cute kid. I would love to know his background. The missionaries told us that our neighbor from India actually set up a baptism date in April for her and the kids. We haven't talked to her for quite awhile because we usually see her around but haven't for some time. They say she is moving back to India so we need to find her and see what is going on.
WEDNESDAY
Had our morning class at the Institute. They won't be having class next week because it is Holy Week where they "sit around and eat sweet beans" according to the kids. Everything closes down and people either stay at home or go out to the country with relatives. I wonder if we will have a quite day or two here in our apartment!! That would be great....It is difficult to get much teaching done when they are out of school for some kind of a celebration two weeks of the month. Next month should be better but you never know. One of the girls wants me to come a separate time and help just her - I would like to do that but am afraid it would open a wave of doors for students that want private help and we don't have time to do that. Another one of our students, Dorian, is putting her mission papers in. I wonder how her mother feels about that since she hasn't lived with her husband for three years because he is an active member of the church and she isn't a member. Can't believe she will like it.
We picked up Leavitts after the Institute lesson and headed out to Los Llanos for lessons. It's an hour and a half drive - if Scott is driving responsibly - if not we make it there in an hour and fifteen minutes! Four of our students had led the singing in different meetings in their ward on Sunday and they were so excited. My, what we take for granted! They meet in this cinder block building that has a little partition thing that splits the room in two that has wheels on it and can be moved around. So after Sacrament meeting they put it in the middle of the room and the RS meets in one side and the priesthood in the other. It's a little noisey but Dominicans don't even notice it. Well today they had the partition in place and when I saw a hose across the floor into the other side of the room I walked over to look in. A big swimming pool took up the entire half of the room. They were having a baptism after our lesson. It just happened to be that the two getting baptized were two of our students so we stayed to watch. Besides I had never seen anyone baptized in a kid's swimming pool. The guy was over six feet tall and finally had to kneel down and lay back before nothing came to the surface as he was baptised. The girl was probably about 12 and had on this" one fits all" jumpsuit which just drowned her. When they tried to get her under the water her jumpsuit would fill with water and float to the top. Poor girl - I thought she was going to be drowned before they finally got everything to stay beneath the water. We think they dump the pool out on the floor - which is just cement- and sweep it out the door. It was a fun experience! Every baptism I have been to here is so different than I have ever seen at home. I was so excited to take some pictures. Got my camera out and I had forgotten to put the memory stick back in it after loading pictures on the computer. Someone should just shoot me! Hopefully I will get some from the Eickbushes.
In the evening we went to the Gasgue Chapel to teach a class. When we got there all of the benches from the Chapel were in the room we teach in getting refurnished and stained. So of course there was nothing in the Chapel so we took tables in and set up our class in there. Every chapel here has folding chairs or pews that can be moved. The "cool kid" has actually turned into someone who really wants to learn. One of the younger boys in the class looks like he is from India - he is talented but has no attention span. Keeping him on task is a full time job! He is such a cute kid. I would love to know his background. The missionaries told us that our neighbor from India actually set up a baptism date in April for her and the kids. We haven't talked to her for quite awhile because we usually see her around but haven't for some time. They say she is moving back to India so we need to find her and see what is going on.
WEDNESDAY
Had our morning class at the Institute. They won't be having class next week because it is Holy Week where they "sit around and eat sweet beans" according to the kids. Everything closes down and people either stay at home or go out to the country with relatives. I wonder if we will have a quite day or two here in our apartment!! That would be great....It is difficult to get much teaching done when they are out of school for some kind of a celebration two weeks of the month. Next month should be better but you never know. One of the girls wants me to come a separate time and help just her - I would like to do that but am afraid it would open a wave of doors for students that want private help and we don't have time to do that. Another one of our students, Dorian, is putting her mission papers in. I wonder how her mother feels about that since she hasn't lived with her husband for three years because he is an active member of the church and she isn't a member. Can't believe she will like it.
We picked up Leavitts after the Institute lesson and headed out to Los Llanos for lessons. It's an hour and a half drive - if Scott is driving responsibly - if not we make it there in an hour and fifteen minutes! Four of our students had led the singing in different meetings in their ward on Sunday and they were so excited. My, what we take for granted! They meet in this cinder block building that has a little partition thing that splits the room in two that has wheels on it and can be moved around. So after Sacrament meeting they put it in the middle of the room and the RS meets in one side and the priesthood in the other. It's a little noisey but Dominicans don't even notice it. Well today they had the partition in place and when I saw a hose across the floor into the other side of the room I walked over to look in. A big swimming pool took up the entire half of the room. They were having a baptism after our lesson. It just happened to be that the two getting baptized were two of our students so we stayed to watch. Besides I had never seen anyone baptized in a kid's swimming pool. The guy was over six feet tall and finally had to kneel down and lay back before nothing came to the surface as he was baptised. The girl was probably about 12 and had on this" one fits all" jumpsuit which just drowned her. When they tried to get her under the water her jumpsuit would fill with water and float to the top. Poor girl - I thought she was going to be drowned before they finally got everything to stay beneath the water. We think they dump the pool out on the floor - which is just cement- and sweep it out the door. It was a fun experience! Every baptism I have been to here is so different than I have ever seen at home. I was so excited to take some pictures. Got my camera out and I had forgotten to put the memory stick back in it after loading pictures on the computer. Someone should just shoot me! Hopefully I will get some from the Eickbushes.
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