5/16/2013

What a relaxing day! We went to the temple early and were home before noon.  I finished the programs - well almost finished- before the power went out.  Had clothes in the washer so they had to wait. Boy I am going to be disappointed if my washer at home doesn't wash better than the one we have here.  Anyway the power came back on within a couple of hours so I was able to finish the programs and Scott took them across the street to have them copied for both recitals this weekend.
   When we got to Santo Domingo for our lesson tonight they were having a stake baptism in our room.  The font is by the other room we could use so one of the leaders in the stake took us into the high council room.  Most of our students were either at the baptism or home studying for their final tests.  We had my favorite mom, her son, and another young girl. They were almost lost in the depths of the huge table:

How nice it was to have so much one on one time to help them.  Sister Santos is carrying a lot of pain around because she is divorcing her husband.  She said for sixteen years she had done her job and his job too plus took care of their three kids and she just did not love him.  She feels a lot of guilt because she says he is a good man.  There are many fairly decent men here who do nothing but sit around and send their wives to work.   She tried to help us with Spanish as we helped them with their playing so it was a great trade off.  She is one of the many people here who have made our mission a great experience.  

The most exciting thing:  We walked into the high council room and there were hymn book setting on the table.  Scott said we should look around for my hymn book that I have been lamenting the loss of for months now.   Well right in front me was my hymn book.  I couldn't believe it!  We have looked everywhere for that book.  It is a Spanish book in which I have written all of the titles of the hymns in English under the Spanish titles.  Plus in the front it has the songs indexed in page numbers in both English and Spanish - so handy to have when you are trying to find a song in Spanish.  There have been so many times since the loss of the book that I have been asked to play and have no idea what they are singing until I have played a couple of measures.   I am so very grateful to have it back....