October 8, 2016

Ready or not!  Seminar day is here!  Excited and nervous all at once.  Dwaine got up at 4:30 to load the car and get ready.  At 5:30 he headed out to pick up Arnoldo and Gisela and swung back for me about 5:45.  We drove to Entre Nubes….Between the Clouds….near Ataco and arrived a little after 6.  However, their gate was not open yet.  It wasn’t long and they opened.  We unloaded and began sorting.  In the end we had two table fulls of materials.  Dwaine left to return to Juayua to pick up another carload along with Cesar at 7:15 at our building.  We had 20 going from Juayua.  Some live in Apaneca and so some were going to take a bus to go.  The crowd gathered and there were about 200 people.  Rachel, the host, gave the welcome and Noe gave the keynote speech.  This year we had both men and women attending.  The format was to have 4 stations,….methods of conveying the lesson by Rachel, songs by Linda, crafts using recycled materials by Luzelena and Betty and using science and food for object lessons by me.  Each station was 50 minutes.  We had snacks and a nice lunch.  At the end, Rachel gave a packet of class supplies for each church represented.  I think there were 16 congregations.  Finally there was a raffle with lots of additional classroom goodies.  Rachel had put together three complete ‘libraries’ for children.  She put a lot of work into the day.  In the end, we were all exhausted.  I would say a special thanks for Dwaine for running the PowerPoint, Arnoldo keeping materials clean and ready to go, and Gisela for translations.  With everyone working together we kept a lively and fun station going.  The ideas that I use are new to El Salvador and everyone seems excited about trying the ideas in class.  The PowerPoint will be sent out to each congregation and it has pics and directions.  We got home close to 5.  About 7, Cesar, Eliza and Margarita came by.  Margarita was from a congregation in San Salvador and they had asked me to do a seminar for them at the end of October.  She had won one of the libraries and was traveling back to San Salvador on Sunday morning by bus.  She asked me to bring the books since it is fairly heavy.  Needless to say, we called it an early evening.  

Teaching Seminar