Saturday, May 17, 2014

So today is Sunday (Saturday for you because I am a day ahead of you. I win!) and I absolutely with all of my heart loved it. These people just ooze love for the Gospel. Partaking of the Sacrament was just wonderful and brought me so much peace, which was much needed after saying goodbye to my family to go to a foreign land with people and customs I’m not familiar with. I can't wait to go again next week. 
And then Relief Society happened. At the beginning, a woman got up to lead the opening hymn, but she was looking at another woman for guidance. She had no idea what she was doing, but she was loving it. We sang “Joseph Smith’s First Prayer”, and she said, “Okay sisters, at the top it says to sing “with dignity”, so you need to sing it with you know umph!” She had us sing very loudly, and at the high notes she would sing very loudly: “It’s up there! Hit those high notes!” The very last phrase she told us to sing very quietly. After we sang, she said joyfully, “This my first time leading. In my whole life!” She laughed and sat down. A little later she was talking about how she “got married, had eleven children, yada yada yada” I’m not making up the yadas. After she had eleven children, she went back to school to become a midwife. Having a baby with her as your midwife would be the most hilarious delivery ever. Imagine a really big, loud, and hilarious Polynesian woman with you as you deliver your child. BAHAHA. 
I noticed that a lot of the woman brought their lesson manuals with them to Relief Society. I could tell they had studied them throughout the week because they were bookmarked and highlighted. Throughout the lesson, they were following closely with their manuals. When I get home I’m going to try to do that more. 
I realize these posts have been random and a bit long, but this weekend has been kind of slow and I've had a lot of free time. Starting this week we will be meeting with a lot of different organizations to figure out different projects we want to head. If all goes well, I'm going to speak with different schools about teaching music. I want to work with a school called Hilton. It's a school for special needs children. With this school, I would (hopefully) teach music, P.E., and choreograph a dance that they do at a festival thing. 
So that's an update. Points to those who actually read it, points to those who take time to skim it, and points to those who read one post and skim the next. 
 

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