Practice! Practice! Practice!

I started to teach piano lessons again and have had more success here than previously.  I was teaching three of the White family lessons--Jimmy, Steven and Blessings.  Jimmy went back to live with his mom so I have just been teaching Steven and Blessings.  They are coming along and know more now than they did when we started!

  
Blessings is a little older and is moving along a little faster.  I also think she probably practices more than Steven.  He would rather be playing basketball.  The handsome young man on the right is Gabriel Kapema.  His dad is the S&I director for Zambia and Malawi and works in our building.  Gabe was doing pretty well until he basically stopped coming.  I think he may start coming again!  I sure hope so. It would be great if he could play for Sacrament Meeting before we leave, but he has to come to lessons oftener than once every 2 months!

              
My best student is Andrew Kampelya.  He's a return missionary from our mission.  He was originally sent to Sierra Leone, but when Ebola broke out there, he was sent back to us.  Anyway, he's home  now and wanted to learn piano so we gave it a go and he has done very well.  He was given this keyboard and teaching books through the Harmon Grant because he finished both the piano and the conducting courses.  He plays the prelude music at church and even accompanied a song the hun, "Lord, Dismiss Us With Thy Blessings" and he did really well.  I'm so proud of him!  He has started to teach Davis Chifunda, the bishop's son, and will hopefully have time to teach others too!