How is that Chinese boy doing? Music is a language all to itself! I’m always so amazed that something so beautiful can be accepted no matter where you are from, or what your alphabet looks like.
The Conference is international, twice a year. The first weekend in April is the “annual” General Conference, when we acknowledge new “authorities” and give thanks to those that are “released.” (This is all volunteer, of course.) It’s also the time when we learn of how the church finances are kept, how many members, missionaries, etc., since the last General Conference, as well as things spiritual.
In October, we will have the “semi-annual” General Conference, when most of what is talked about is mostly spiritual, but also in keeping with the events of “today,” and how to maintain our spirituality in a world so filled with so many things that are not in keeping with the Savior’s Message of morality and spirituality.
It sounds like your Easter will be Noisily Joyful! It is such a celebration!
Joseph, the Chinese boy, is a massive overachiever - he plays piano and saxophone, as well as percussion (with the high school marching band and the Spanish choir), volunteers at the hospital, gets A’s in everything, and might be going to a state-run science boarding school in Durham next year. I know he’s been testing and visiting up there; he can tell us how it’s going on Monday. His family is from Hong Kong, and both children and the mother play classical music.
There’s no Spanish Mass for Easter, so we get don’t have to perform at all. Some of us will go to the Saturday night Vigil service, and others to the 8:00 a.m. on Sunday. Then we’ll have the whole day off to observe Bill’s birthday, a few days late.
We’re having a potluck lunch after the Spanish service tomorrow. I need to make some rolls to go with the “butter lamb” one my Sunday School students gave me!