Confirmation School but When and Where?

Confirmation School has been on the schedule for about a month. At that time, the parents of the children thought it best to have 2hrs of class on Friday night, 3hrs on Saturday, and 3hrs on Sunday with the confirmation exercise in the afternoon. Walt made a schedule out reflecting the wishes and circulated it.

This evening while waiting for the final stragglers to arrive for Bible Class we decided to verify the details of the school. Would it be at the community center or at the Lampi apartment? There are only three students so the apartment will work. Sounds easy enough.

 Enter a government decree. Apparently the President of Ecuador is quite powerful and can both declare when there will be a fiesta and an extra day off granted to the people and when the people must work on a Saturday to make up for the day he gives off. So some of the Saturdays in January must be worked which means teachers must teach and students must go to school. So much for the Saturday confirmation session. It is almost impossible to understand how much advance notice was given for the requirement to work on Saturday. The President did grant an extra holiday, fiesta in early November as I recall and many people took advantage of it and headed to the country. The affect was people were absent from services. Maybe this was the pay back. The country is suffering and the people are becoming discouraged.

Children always seem to find something to simile about.

 

After about an hour of back and forth discussion with many points of view, a decision was made. One of students will arrive early on Friday to the Lampi apartment for the first three lessons. The other two students will arrive in the evening for the same lessons. Two of the three are in public school so they will be at school on Saturday, one of them until 6pm. On Sunday, all three will come to the Lampi's for 5 more lessons. Next Wednesday we will gather at the Panizo home for the confirmation exercise and supper. Take it in stride seems the best strategy.

The top of Chimbarazo.

 

Well, we were successful in getting three copies for each of the books by Uljas and Holma as confirmation gifts. Verconia had copies from ministers who had been in Ecuador. So we went to the Central University and they printed them up for the sum of $12 total. 

Walt and Avis