Sunday, January 18, 2015

         This has been a nice relaxing Sunday with plenty of time to study.  The second of the coordinators’ meetings was held this afternoon in the temple and Sister Valle asked me yesterday if I were going.  It was an inclusive gesture, but rather meaningless for me since all the instruction goes right over my head.  Besides, I have only been a coordinator a few times and that was when they surely were desperate  J

         Gina’s younger daughter Raquel played for Sacrament Meeting today and did very well.  She must be about ten years old.  The Mission President’s son, who looked to be about 14 and is most likely one of Gina’s students, played the Sacrament song.  It is exciting to see these young kids learning music and taking part in the meetings.  There aren’t very many, but each one who can learn and take part playing will be a blessing here. 

There were no chords or pedal available today for the electric piano in Relief Society, so they just sang as they always did before I came—without accompaniment—and their sweet voices blended together well.  They don’t always get the rhythm just right or the melody, but they love to sing.  There is one Young Adult sister who plays a little, but she must teach in an auxiliary since I don’t see her in Relief Society.  After all this time, there is still not much of the lesson that I can understand—words and a few phrases, yes, but not enough to “get the gist.”  Thank goodness for the written word in English.

A young man who is leaving in the morning to serve a mission in Mexico bore his testimony in Sacrament Meeting.  It was so different from the “farewells” we know at home.  He came up to the stand from the congregation and was only at the pulpit for two or three minutes.  Interesting.

Good Night!  Pleasant Dreams!  Have a great week!