Second Sabbath

       So one thing I forgot to mention yesterday was that during the children’s rest time, Olie (a lady that works in the office and who Kelsey started to teach piano to) asked me if I would help her get together a special music with the children, basically teach them a new song to sing. Well for some reason the only song that was coming to mind to teach them was “There is a Treasure”. So yesterday afternoon we got a group together and taught it to them and then practiced it. We did that until it was my dinner time. Then it was the kids dinner time and then it was time for vespers. After vespers, the kids found me and told it was time to practice again, so we gathered everyone, and even acquired a few new ones, and practiced some more. It got to the point where many were not singing and I felt like we had practiced enough, but Olie would not let up. Then they decided it needed to be louder and so all of them started just yelling it instead of singing, so I put a stop to that pretty fast. I’m not quite sure if a few of the girls were trying to sing harmony or just an octave higher, but whatever it was, it was way off key, so I gently told them to sing with the rest of us. This morning I had gotten up early and dressed way before I normally do, which is a good thing since the children came ringing our doorbell telling me it was time to practice early. So again we practiced until I had to go eat breakfast. The performance during church went rather well, I was proud of them!

       There was a misunderstanding today on when the village Sabbath School would be held. Last week it was at 2:00pm and dinner was at 3:00pm, today dinner was planned for 2:00pm and we hadn’t heard anything different for the branch Sabbath School. So we ate hurriedly since we weren’t sure what was going on. Because of what time it was when we finished eating, Mr. Waid arranged for out little put-put (motorized flatbed rickshaw) to take us. When we arrived none of our children were there and Pomwell (the pastor and person in charge of this Sabbath School) wasn’t there either. Metali (one of our guard’s daughter, who attends our school) was with us, so we got her to help us in singing songs. We sang quite a few songs before Pomwell showed up with the children. When they showed up we taught all the villagers a new song and then Chantel was able to tell her story. It was a story of Zacchaeus. We also had to wait for Pomwell because he had pages for the children to color after the story, so when Chantel was done, we handed out the papers making sure the villagers all got one before handing them out amongst our children. When they were done coloring they each got a package of crackers, they were all so excited to get them!