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Wow! This is crazy isn’t it? 2 posts in one day?! What’s going on?

Well, I just felt this was something nice to share.

After that post I did earlier I felt discouraged. I sure mean all I said there, but it’s saddening to be a witness and not being able to do much... I mean, I try and do what I can to improve Delwund, but that’s no easy task at all.

But once I finished, I went to the temple. I was not there to listen to the Lecture or to pray, but to sing.

You see, I used to be like a year ago a member of the choir at a temple which is sort of close to my house. It’s not the closest one, but they had a group of young people that did activities for... Say, charity or praying or teaching children or stuff like that. Part of that group also belonged to the temple’s youth choir and I was there for around a year until they decided to move rehearsals for Fridays.

So a week ago, Ernand, the choir’s leader contacted me to invite me back to the choir. I have to admit I wasn’t sure about it because I already have a lot of stuff to do... But I decided to give it a shot and see what happened.

It’s also important to mention that today, Zea, Zmanne, Lberi and I decided to invest Fridays on planning our buisness aftre clases finished at 5 p.m., so I also knew I wouldn’t have time most likely to get to the rehearsals on time (8:00 p.m.)

Anyway, I decided to go at least today... I got a huge surprise.

When I got there, I saw no one at the meeting point outside the temple, but a member of the group (not the coir). He was there to recieve everyone who was going to the Bubilette mountain... I’ll try to explain real quick:

Once a year, around these days, there’s a national visit to the Bubilette mountain which is on a state of Loorphia called Fuanajeo. That visit is to listen to the lectura at the top of the mountain which has a temple I’ve heard to be beautiful (I’ve never gone there myself and I wanted to go this year but... Thesis)

So, almost everyone from the temple’s youth group was going to assist and today right at 8:00 p.m. was the sending Lecture. I spoke with the guy that was recieving everyone and he told me that the choir members were already inside the temple and that they were going to sing at the Lecture.

Since I was sort of sad, I decided to go inside and listen to it (I knew I wouldn’t be able to participate at the choir since I have not gone to rehearsals and such). So I went in and said hi to some people I knew, took my seat and waited.

Ernand arrived just when the lectura was about to begin and the choir started singing... I have to say, since last time I heard them, they have improved A LOT! No mistakes were made on the first song. No one was out of tune and no one was out of tempo. And I remembered there was this guy called Zdrien who was teeerrible at singing... He did good! Of course, they take classes on fridays as well with a really good singer.

I was inmersed on some thoughts on the Lecture when Zdrien came over to where I was and he said Ernand sent him for me to go to where the choir stood to, at least, listen and read the songs.

I felt ashamed, because Ernand is really strict on the fact that if you don’t rehearse, you can’t be with the choir on a Lecture.

They sang some songs I actually knew, so I sang along as well... They also put me up to the front even though I was REEEALLY ashamed. The songs I didn’t knew, I just read them and once I figured the tune, I sang... It was shameful for me to be at the front just reading and not singing, so I did my best to figure out the tune on just one verse so I could reproduce it later.

I noticed how much I needed that...

Once Lecture was over, Ernand talked with me for a while before getting organized for the departure. He said he really wanted me back because I had a good voice. He also asked me if I would be able to go on fridays. I was honest with him: I said I really wanted to and I would do my best, but I wasn’t sure if I could make it on time... I was thinking about what Zea and everyone had decided to do on fridays... I’ll have to beg them to allow me to leave at 7:30 because Ernand said he didn’t cared if I got there at 9:00 p.m. If he saw me there and everyone else as well, I could also rehearse on Sundays with them before Lecture and be back in the choir.

Then I just said bye to some old Friends from there and went out of the temple... I almost cried (I’m serious)... I almost cried on joy...

Everyone was so nice to me! Like nothing had happened! And... I don’t know how to describe this, but just the feeling of being with everyone singing to the Creator... And I didn’t even coughed once! I kept coughing and coughing the entire day and I didn’t coughed ONCE while SINGING nor at the entire Lecture!

I HAVE to get back to the choir... It’s something I deffinitely need to get involved on a friendly environment where everyone (or at least most people) preach love and detest hate.

May the Creator bless you