El dia de las madres!

   Here in the DR Mothers' Day is celebrated the last Sunday of the month.  This plan may be to give them plenty of time to advertise gifts for moms.  One lady in our branch got 2 mother's days because she got to talk to her missionary daughter (serving in Mexico) on May 11th and then to celebrate on the DR day.  I didn't really expect there would be much that day at church.  Earl had been asked to speak and I suggested mothers would be a good subject.  He gave a great talk (what I could understand of the Spanish), with stories of his mother and scripture stories.  Then we went to Relief Society and it was a whole new game!  Presents for everyone!  Of course, we have a small group, but the YW came in too  and they drew for their mothers who weren't there or for other sisters who are usually there, but not this time.  I took a picture of one and then they all wanted pictures!  So here are a few of them.  We drew numbers to pick a gift out of the right pile.  They  were small gifts, but wrapped well and all fun!

 

 

There were some artificial flowers there too, so we had to have a picture!  The lady with more flowers is Hilda, the Relief Society president.