Christmas 2016 we had been in Tatui about a month. Christmas Day was on Sunday. There was no special program, a speaker that didn't talk about Christmas and no Christmas hymns. I told Elder Barrus, next year we need to have a Christmas program. So in October he brought up our desire to have a Christmas program in Branch Council Meeting. He told them I would write the program. So, I did (wishing Colleen Wood was here with me to help). Between the narrations I wrote in some Christmas hymns to be sung by the Young Men and Women, Primary and a Branch Choir They didn't have a Branch Choir at this time so I asked Gilmara if she thought she could put together one. She did and Elder Barrus and I thought we had better be supportive and be a part of the choir. Neither one of us could sing our way out of a paper bag, but fortunately the people around us could sing beautifully. We had 20 people in the choir and met twice a week to practice. The Christmas Program went beautifully They enjoyed having a choir so much, they continued to practice so they would be prepared to sing in Sacrament Meeting once in a while. So we thought we had better continue to be supportive and attend practices. In January we were told we would be having a District Conference with Itapetininga and Itapeva and Elder Campos would be the visiting General Authority. They asked that we have a District Choir to sing at conference. All the Branches were asked to have members be in the choir. There are 7 Branches, there were 42 choir members from those Branches and 21 of them came from Tatui! Including Elder Barrus and I. The District Music Director was nervous when she found out Al and I were in the choir, which I could perfectly understand, but it was for the wrong reason. She told our choir director that all Americans have beautiful singing voices and she was afraid she wouldn't meet our standards! Boy, was she ever wrong! This was our last hurrah!
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