Week 67- 68

I stayed after church today because there was a baptism.  My friend, Rosemary, stayed also with her children Bradley and Lorraine.  Lorraine is my little shadow whose pictures show up sometimes in my posts.  The program and baptism were held outside and Rosemary, Lorraine and I were sitting on the edge of the patio behind everyone else.  Lorraine was playing in the grass.  I had a roll of masking tape that I had used while teaching the lesson in Primary.  She got a little restless so I stuck two pieces of tape on her ears for earrings.  She wanted a watch so I made her a tape watch.  Then she wanted two watches so I made her another.  Then she wanted me to stick a piece on her hand and she found a flower to stick to it.  Then she wanted some glasses.  I asked Rosemary if Lorraine ever plays dress up.  She has not.  She does not know what dressing up like a princess is all about.  But today, she felt so special and danced around like a princess even though she does not know what one is.  She even found a "bouquet". I never  imagined a roll of tape could make a little girl so happy.   I gave Rosemary the remaining tape. 








                                     Bradley  

   

    Primary was small today.  There are usually about 16 children.   I taught them a lesson about baptism.  I usually teach the younger children but taught all of them today since there were just 7.  

                



                                                                               Baptism



For the past two weeks or more I have worked almost non-stop from 8-4 with creating new landlords and making sure the landlords of our 70+ houses get paid.  Things slowed down a little bit on Thursday and Friday.  At last!  

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