So here it is, another Sunday! We left home after 8:00 to pick up the kids at Tres Brasos. Our three kids turned into six - the little girl who went with us last week and her five year old sister and Carlos. I just think it is so funny that their parents just send them without even knowing what exactly they are going to for over three hours and don't even know us. I would think that it was the baby sitting time but they just let their kids roam the neighborhood there so tending them is not an issue. Very trusting people. I wouldn't let my child out of the house there! I finally have been able to sit quietly in the car while Scott goes to get the kids without hyperventilating with fear every time some one goes by. At night time they insist on driving to the main road with us so we will be safe - now how safe does that make you feel??
We bring half of the Primary every Sunday - just like at home...Scott had to talk today and I had to bear my testimony ( in Spanish of course) Just glad it's over.. That is the first time we have had to do anything but music in the ward. Of course we aren't really members of the ward but just go there because that is where the kids would go if they went to church on their own.
Got home about 12:30 just in time for a bowl of soup and to round up the music things we needed to take out to San Cristobal. Our lesson was cut short there because we had to be back in Santo Domingo before 4:00 to a Choir Festival training meeting. Thank heavens they put Sister Johnson in as chairman of the committee so we can do the teaching on our schedule. She and Sister Anderson have done an amazing job. We greeted and handed out materials then left for our lesson in Oriental. It was fun for us because we saw so many of the people that we have been working with.
Maria, our helper in Oriental, called just as we got into town wondering where we were with the keyboards because they were there and ready for the lesson! As luck would have it, we were just a block from the church so it all worked out. There were 21 students there. They worked hard today trying to learn the where the notes were on the pentagram and the keyboard. When they master that they just take off. I know the Lord has blessed them to learn quickly. Even our older woman did well today. ( Of course 75 sounds pretty young these days) Stephanie, one of our graduated students, came to help today. She leaves Aug 6 for her mission in Mexico with another one of our students who is also going to Mexico. I am glad she is leaving before we do but we have discovered that they don't have any kind of a farewell for these kids when they go on missions.
You would think there was a national emergency here with all of the national guard that are out on the roads. The president decided they should be out helping with the intersection robberies and crime in general. I think there were two on every intersection we passed today and some in between. Don't know if we feel safer or more obviously in danger.
Our travel today was filled with beautiful trees covered with red blossoms. This is a beautiful time of the year here! Now we are home and Scott is practicing the keyboard while I blog but we are both ready for bed after an eleven hour day...
We bring half of the Primary every Sunday - just like at home...Scott had to talk today and I had to bear my testimony ( in Spanish of course) Just glad it's over.. That is the first time we have had to do anything but music in the ward. Of course we aren't really members of the ward but just go there because that is where the kids would go if they went to church on their own.
Got home about 12:30 just in time for a bowl of soup and to round up the music things we needed to take out to San Cristobal. Our lesson was cut short there because we had to be back in Santo Domingo before 4:00 to a Choir Festival training meeting. Thank heavens they put Sister Johnson in as chairman of the committee so we can do the teaching on our schedule. She and Sister Anderson have done an amazing job. We greeted and handed out materials then left for our lesson in Oriental. It was fun for us because we saw so many of the people that we have been working with.
Maria, our helper in Oriental, called just as we got into town wondering where we were with the keyboards because they were there and ready for the lesson! As luck would have it, we were just a block from the church so it all worked out. There were 21 students there. They worked hard today trying to learn the where the notes were on the pentagram and the keyboard. When they master that they just take off. I know the Lord has blessed them to learn quickly. Even our older woman did well today. ( Of course 75 sounds pretty young these days) Stephanie, one of our graduated students, came to help today. She leaves Aug 6 for her mission in Mexico with another one of our students who is also going to Mexico. I am glad she is leaving before we do but we have discovered that they don't have any kind of a farewell for these kids when they go on missions.
You would think there was a national emergency here with all of the national guard that are out on the roads. The president decided they should be out helping with the intersection robberies and crime in general. I think there were two on every intersection we passed today and some in between. Don't know if we feel safer or more obviously in danger.
Our travel today was filled with beautiful trees covered with red blossoms. This is a beautiful time of the year here! Now we are home and Scott is practicing the keyboard while I blog but we are both ready for bed after an eleven hour day...
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