Soy un hijo de Dios

Our Primary serves the children of our ward and also the children of the Spanish-speaking branch in Waco. At the beginning of the year we decided on a couple of songs we would learn in Spanish for our program at the end of the year. As Mother's Day approached and we were invited as a Primary to sing in both Sacrament Meetings, we decided to go ahead and teach the kids the first verse of "Soy un hijo de Dios" (I Am a Child of God).

I've been singing this to my kids in Spanish since they were born, and Elijah only just barely started asking for the song in English at bedtime last week. Apparently, he now knows the difference between the Spanish version and the English. We haven't been doing much speaking Spanish at home for quite a while, so I was happy that Ellen was really excited to learn the song in Spanish for real.

On Mother's Day, the children sang beautifully in English in our ward, and then we stayed after Primary for one more meeting, and they kids sang beautifully the same two songs in English for the Spanish-speaking branch. I wasn't really prepared for how emotional I would be when they all sang "Soy un hijo de Dios" at the very end. It was really amazing. What a blessing for the children, leaders, parents, and teachers it is for us to get to know the children and families from the branch and some of their language as well.

Today I was standing in the hall at church and someone opened the Primary room door, and the children were singing "Soy un hijo de Dios" again. I started crying again. At least I wasn't standing in front of the kids, crying, although that does happen on a regular basis. It's so sweet for these children to know who they are in two languages.

Cinco de mayo! That's, like, Mexican independence day, right?

Nope.


Peace, suckah!