We Have Three Days in our Week, Sunday, Monday and Temple

     Especially on the AM shift, that is how we feel. And we play so hard on Sunday and Monday that we start the week out tired. I guess My Heavenly Father knew how hard this Christmas was going to be without our kids and grandkids. We have never not had at least one of the kids with us for the holidays and Jaikka has never had Christmas with out us. Anyway, our stake choir is putting on a Devotional on the 18th and Lon and I were asked to sing. Well, he was ok with it until they passed out the Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah. Lon decided to be our photographer instead. We have had two practices a week for 2 to 3 hours each time. On Sat night, we sang for 30 minutes in front of the Temple and on Sunday we left the Temple grounds in the big yellow school bus for the Salvador del Mundo park to sing

      It was the government's Christmas party to start the Christmas season. We were the only group to sing or say anything about our Savior. We sang only Christmas carols from the hymn book so Lon sang with us. It was fun. I have been asked to sing "O holy Night" with a violin and piano and two aires from the Messiah, O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings, and He Shall Feed His Flock. Boy. am I in over my head. Luckily, Hallelujah is the same in Spanish and English so I have very few words to learn in Spanish for that one. O Holy Night, I am singing one verse in Spanish and the next in English and the two aires from the Messiah are only in English. Lon is such a big support. He tags along for all the practices cause he is my companion. It makes for long Sat and Sundays for us.

 

     Lon and I are singing a duet on Sunday, the 11th, then the choir is singing for the Temple Worker's Devotional at 4:00 then practicing again. The weeks just fly by for us. We do look forward to sleeping in tomorrow morning. If I don't have to set an alarm I feel much more rested to get up naturally. It is school break here, no school til the middle of January, like our summer break at home, and the people are on vacation with their kids so the Temple has been very slow. We read that the temperature in Jerome was 4, burrrr, and we still are in shirt sleeves, in fact today we spent the day at the beach. I'll fill you in on that trip next week. We hope you are enjoying the music, the lights, the smells of the Christmas season without all the hustle and bustle. We send our love to all Lon and Nancy