We just got home from a hot day of traveling and teaching! It's 9:00 pm and we left at 1:00 for Los Llanos. Confessor (I thought that was his profession, not his name) one of our students died this past weekend. He was in his 70's and had been taken to the hospital but walked back home. Anyway I would have loved to have gone to the funeral but we didn't know soon enough and I doubt I could have dragged Scott to it. But we hear it was very interesting. They don't embalm people here so they have to be buried within two days. Their caskets are just a hard plastic shell that they put in a space in between the walls of the vault - vertical. In five years they take them out and do something with their bones but we're not sure what that is....
It was like a sweatbox in the building they use for a church. You drive an hour and a half to get there then the lessons set up, teaching, and taking down and loading the car take two hours. We had a new young man come in today and want to start lessons. Problem is he is three months behind but he still thinks he can catch up. I hope so! The Leavitts are doing a temple prep class there so they had driven out too. The Gray's went back home with them so we could go straight to our next class.
We all thought that would help us get there sooner but it took us two hours to get back into the city and to the Santo Domingo Stake for the next lesson. It is sad how tired we are by that time but great that as soon as you get all of the keyboards, books, cords, hauled in and start working with the students you get a new spurt of energy. A young woman came in to class and wanted to take lessons. As we talked she said she had just got home from a mission in Florida. She is starting a full time job at the MTC here so we told her to watch for Bailey Ferris. She has so many things going on and would be way behind the class so decided to wait and take lessons when she retires. That is a little late because your brain cells really decrease with age - at least many of ours has!
It was like a sweatbox in the building they use for a church. You drive an hour and a half to get there then the lessons set up, teaching, and taking down and loading the car take two hours. We had a new young man come in today and want to start lessons. Problem is he is three months behind but he still thinks he can catch up. I hope so! The Leavitts are doing a temple prep class there so they had driven out too. The Gray's went back home with them so we could go straight to our next class.
We all thought that would help us get there sooner but it took us two hours to get back into the city and to the Santo Domingo Stake for the next lesson. It is sad how tired we are by that time but great that as soon as you get all of the keyboards, books, cords, hauled in and start working with the students you get a new spurt of energy. A young woman came in to class and wanted to take lessons. As we talked she said she had just got home from a mission in Florida. She is starting a full time job at the MTC here so we told her to watch for Bailey Ferris. She has so many things going on and would be way behind the class so decided to wait and take lessons when she retires. That is a little late because your brain cells really decrease with age - at least many of ours has!
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