Caroleen’s Treasures

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mother’s out here! This is the second Mother’s Day that my mom is not here with us, hopefully we could visit her gravesite on her 2nd death anniversary on the 23rd.

This is our second Sunday here and I didn’t expect to have more kids in Sunday School! they are in different sizes! I have a 12 year-old and the youngest is 2! So this was a great challenge now for me…I must follow a curriculum but with the wide difference among ages, I think I have to ask for reinforcement Another teacher is needed to handle the older ones. We made Mother’s Day cards before we ended our class and they have enjoyed it. All materials compliments of Ella I am so glad she doesn’t complain. She was even more than willing to share everything she has. It was all from her “project” thingie…the papers, crayons and stickers.  After the worship service, there are 5 who were baptized by the river officiated by Donald. Ella was so excited when she heard the announcement that there will be baptismal. She said: “Mommy, sama tayo ha!!! May magpa-BACKTIZE!!!” (Mommy, let’s go with them!!! There will be people to be backtize!!!) That is our vocabulary of the day…

Ella’s vocabulary:

BACKTIZE-dipping of the body in the river to erase the sins and be called a Christian

She was asking her daddy soooo many question about baptismal…one after another…and we are surprised on how well she understood and of how eager she want to learn. They were like having a one on one bible study When she was satisfied with Donald’s answers, she announced she wanted to be baptized! Oh dear…that took us more time explaining to this little debator all the things she need to know. It was the first time I heard her say she wanted to grow fast! More often than not I would hear her say she don’t want to grow fast because of the house chores!