I'm Off to Mexico!: Blog 53 16 May 2017 Mount Hebron Graduation

GRADUATION CEREMONIES

KINDERGARTEN

Five students will be moving on to 1st Grade!

Aby, Javier, Jonathan,Tommy, and Samy are very excited. Their teacher is very excited with their bilingual skills. They are learning English much faster than I am learning Spanish.

Here is the 5-year-old SS class reciting Psalm 1, Sunday, April 30.Yes, in Spanish!
(Benjamin, Tommy, Jonathan,(?), Javier, Samy, Aby, (?), (?).
Hma Laura is their teacher.

HIGH SCHOOL

Angel has worked so hard the past two years in order to be able to graduate at the end of this school year. He has completed 172 paces in two years which is no easy feat.

As of now, Angel plans to enroll in Hyles-Anderson College next year. He believes the Lord would have him serve in Missions and will continue to seek His will as to where.

Brenda Gonzalez, Joel's sister, whose family are missionaries to El Salvador, finished her last semester of High School with us. She is a tremendous young person with a heart to serve the Lord.

I was also privileged to help Joel finish his last year of High School. He will also be attending Hyles-Anderson.

The Great Commission

Bible Clubs

Our Soulwinners took Bible Clubs to many areas of Monterrey during Spring Break week and saw over 500 people saved!

Ladies' Soulwinning

I continue to go out every Friday afternoon with the group of ladies led by Jenny. There are several other groups in different areas that go on different days. We have had more than ten ladies every week for quite some time.

I went soulwinning Friday with Tammy, Pastor Jonathan's sister. She saw one lady saved and one very Catholic couple promised to think about this decision over the weekend as the re-read the verses on the tract. The lady with whom she was talking had a five-year old son who interrupted them a time or two. Tammy suggested I take out the Wordless Book and go through the colors with him. I know my colors, and how to say what they stand for except for growing. I am sure my grammar was not very good, but the words got through. As he was only five, I did not pressure him to pray with me. I am not sure how much he understood, but God is. His Mom got saved, he had the Gospel story told to Him (albeit roughly), and I went through the Salvation plan for the first time in Spanish (other than with Jessica, who is already saved).

Language Update

I have gone through the basic plan of salvation with a five-year-old. (story above)

While telling the Easter story to the Kindergarteners I did very well until the end. I said, in Spanish, "Jesus had no sin. Jesus died for our sin." The students were listening and even moved by Jesus' death ~ until I confused the word for sin with the word for fish. They all started laughing, and Samy said: "Ha ha - Hma Emily say 'Jesus no have fish; Jesus die for fish." The moment was lost.

I have had some trouble starting Disc 2 of Rosetta Stone. For some reason, my laptop does not want to read it. I have taken some ribbing for taking over a year to finish the first disc, some of which I am sure I deserve; however, for those unfamiliar with the program, I thought I would share a few details. Disc 1 was comprised of four core units each containing 32 lessons and a test: that is 128 lessons and four tests. I had to repeat a majority of the speaking lessons numerous times. I still struggle with the vowel pronunciations.