Saturday June 21, 2014

Yesterday morning we were planning on teaching at 9:30 since some buses always arrive as we are finishing up. At 9:10 we got a phone call that there was a Primary out there waiting for us! No one had made an appointment. Spencer took the easel and poster out while I gathered up electronics for music and the less on material. He rushed back in and said "This group was here two weeks ago and already heard this lesson! So in 30 seconds I had to find the materials for last month's lesson. The pictures had been refiled and had to be retrieved and placed in the sheet protectors on our poster board. It was a crazy, confusing 5 minutes or so. You REALLY have to be flexible here. But as the saying goes "If you stay flexible, you'll never get bent out of shape." After the lesson, Spencer took them on the tour of the gardens and to visit the temple waiting room. I went to make 75 more copies of our coloring activity (I already had about 15 or 20 and we used them all up!). While in the temple I observed that there were large numbers of patrons waiting for a session and two brothers asked if Spencer was with me. The president was trying to contact all of the missionaries to come and help with the ordinances for the huge numbers of people. Bottom line: when Spencer finished the tour he turned right around and went back to the temple at 10 AM. I stayed with the kids until 11:30. Then I received a call asking me to go to the Guarderia (nursery) where a teenager needed to view the DVD before being sealed to his parents. There had to be two sisters there. That went fine until he went to get dressed. He had no idea how to tie the white tie. So I put the tie on myself and reached back 50+ years to when our band uniforms had ties in high school. I tied it on me (the knot wasn't symmetrical--but it was better than not being tied at all). I pulled it over my head and put on Jose. He was very grateful. His 18 year old brother was in the temple with his parents. He leaves on a mission in a few weeks. After the sealing and after Jose changed clothes I went on over to work the afternoon shift. It was a crazy and exhausting Saturday. The high light of the kids was a darling little crippled boy who walked (rapidly) on all fours (hands and feet--not knees). He could stand and climbed off his chair and put on his jacket before dropping to his hands to rush out. The room was really crowded where we taught, as you can see. We now doing the coloring activity in the dining room (comedor) and it went really well. I appreciated the help of other adults since Spencer was in the temple by then.