Fast Sunday's aren't very fun down here. Sometimes it seems that I'm the only one fasting, and not only that but the kids always eat delicious foods, and whoever gives it to them offers it to me. I've got three cups of jello and and a hand full of crackers upstairs to prove it. But also fasts here seem to be the most yielding. I feel like fasting makes me so open to the spirit and after ending it I felt overwhelmed with the spirit.
Another fun thing today is that that I played the piano in sacrament meeting. When we arrived there was no prelude music, and no one played for the opening song, so I walked to the chorister if she would like for me to play for the meeting and she let me. So for the meeting I played impromptu on a 5 octave keyboard and naturally made a ton of horrible obvious mistakes, but still by the end I felt like I had contributed more than I had detracted from the spirit of the music. Testimony was meeting was great, it seemed as if everyone was so eager to bear their testimony, and they all had strong testimonies if the gospel. I then got to work with mis hijos in Casas. I love those kids so much and I know it's going to tear me apart to leave them in 3 weeks. Today I did a little game where you rock the kids back and forth and do this chant:
Aserín, aserán
Los maderos de San Juan
Piden pan, no les dan
Piden queso, les dan oueso
Y les corten el pescueso
Then you tickle their neck as you say pescueso. The kids love it, especially little Karla. So after doing it with her Cristian came running up to me yelling ¡Córtame! ¡Córtame! And I almost laughed me head off. But the best part was that my Florcita heard me laughing and starting to laugh too, and her laugh starts fairly normal then her smile becomes very grinch like and her laugh becomes very guttural, which started an endless cycle of laughing for her, Cristian, and me. Speaking of laughing I think I finally won over Jennifer's heart; she is three years old and when she first arrived at Tadeo Torres she had a very hard time adjusting. But then I found her weakness: tickles. And after a couple days of working hard at her I think I'm ready to change her name to squeaky toy or tickle me Elmo. I love Jennifer.
Other big news, we three new girls in Casas, and they are all super cute. They're all sisters and their names are Maria, Michele and Marisela. They're all doing great and I can't wait to go back tomorrow afternoon and work with them some more.
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