Attending a Baptism

One of our students wanted to bring his dog to school for a minute so we could take a picture of him and his dog together for the Pen-pal project we have.



His sister clearly doesn't like the smell as is obvious from her nose pinching below. Actually, the smell was atrocious and the dog's owner smelled like his dog for the whole class time. Note to self: "No more pictures of pets so long as any of us have a nose."


Finally...classes in Los Perales!

Beautiful children, don't you think?










Next projects:

Now that the house is clean, we are going to do a little repairing. First project will be one of the bathrooms where the tile has fallen down. We used some random tile that had fallen down in some of the closets to patch the hole. However, we ran out of caulking so we'll show you the finished product next week. There is no longer a Home Depot around the corner.



We also found a little paint that was left by other missionaries. The house will be torn down eventually so we don't want to get carried away, but Yuca thought it was a buena idea to paint a little. As you see, most of the wall is fine so we'll just paint over the worst part. There are walls all over the house with this problem so it will take a few weeks.


Finished walls will have to be next week because it takes more than one coat to cover the exposed cement wall.

Baptism:
We were finally able to attend a baptism in Feliciano. What a beautiful Spirit we felt as this young woman chose to enter into the waters of baptism.

Note to anyone taking piano lessons--keep it up! 

You never know what skills you are going to need while on a mission. One of the young sister missionaries played the piano while all the young missionaries sang Cuando me Bautice, a Primary song. I thought of our numerous grandchildren  plucking away at the piano. Remember: it feels really good to be able to help out in the music department. You don't have to be a super star at it either, but it sure helps in a foreign country to be able to accompany.



The branch celebrates by decorating the chalkboard and following up with lunch together. We brought pop for the group but couldn't stay for the food.

Check out the baptismal font. We kept hearing about the font being in one place or another. Thinking that there were two fonts, we were confused where they were. Now we get it! The font can be outside if the weather permits or in the Primary room if needed. It is still cool here so the baptism was held inside. The room was packed and the window was open so that more people could see. Clever don't you think? (The water felt pretty cold so don't know if it helped much to be inside.)


No adventura this week....it was a good one.

We are constantly striving to improve our teaching. Yesterday we purchased some audio books in Spanish to strive to increase the kid's attention span. Tom Sawyer, Christmas Carol, and The Wizard of Oz were the choices for our rambunctious group.

We are also planning more work sheets and art projects. Our kids have to have a ton of diversion.