Eight hours of traveling and teaching and we are finally home. It gets pretty tiring at times but it is good to be able to serve. The Grays didn't go to Los Llanos with us today because they had to take Pres. and Sister Bair to the airport so they met us out there. We only had three of the normal ten students show up. You never know why they come sometimes and not others! But it was great because there were three of us there to help and with only three students we had good one on one time with them. Richard, who thinks he is playing a song perfectly when he never counts was a hard sell on the importance of counting but he finally caught on.
Since we didn't have the Grays with us we didn't have to come back into the center of the city so we were actually early for our lessons at Santo Domingo. I was visiting in the mission office with the Ewells when one of our students came down and said they couldn't start without me. Ha! I think he is afraid of Scott. Wouldn't be the first person to be afraid of him! They don't know what a softy he really is..These students have known for a month that we will be having a recital this next month but worse is that we are leaving them. Michelle has not been to a week of lessons so we have been worried about her - not really knowing what her life is like but guessing it might not be too good. She wants to Skype with me when we leave. That will be great so maybe we can keep track of her for a little while. She is very talented and so self motivated that she learns very quickly and all of the other students think it is unfair. If they practiced as much as she does they would be playing well too. It was a good two hour practice for most of them and at the end they were to play one of their recital pieces. Were they ever nervous! Hope it helped get some nervousness out of them but probably not.
One of our older sisters who dropped out of the class because she had to work came in to say hello. It was so good to see her!
The temple is closed for two weeks so that frees up our mornings to work on other things but I will miss the peace I feel there.
Since we didn't have the Grays with us we didn't have to come back into the center of the city so we were actually early for our lessons at Santo Domingo. I was visiting in the mission office with the Ewells when one of our students came down and said they couldn't start without me. Ha! I think he is afraid of Scott. Wouldn't be the first person to be afraid of him! They don't know what a softy he really is..These students have known for a month that we will be having a recital this next month but worse is that we are leaving them. Michelle has not been to a week of lessons so we have been worried about her - not really knowing what her life is like but guessing it might not be too good. She wants to Skype with me when we leave. That will be great so maybe we can keep track of her for a little while. She is very talented and so self motivated that she learns very quickly and all of the other students think it is unfair. If they practiced as much as she does they would be playing well too. It was a good two hour practice for most of them and at the end they were to play one of their recital pieces. Were they ever nervous! Hope it helped get some nervousness out of them but probably not.
One of our older sisters who dropped out of the class because she had to work came in to say hello. It was so good to see her!
The temple is closed for two weeks so that frees up our mornings to work on other things but I will miss the peace I feel there.
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