For Mother’s Day this year, we baked a cake. A huge cake! Two delectable layers of white vanilla, dripping with melted dark chocolate. We figured, let’s go big, make sure everyone gets a good size piece. Somehow whether big or small, the ladies in Aningas can make a cake stretch to fit the crowd. This time though, there was little stretching, and much to enjoy!
Before eating the cake, we had a lesson. Being Mother’s Day, we decided it was the perfect opportunity to get the story straight about Mary, the mother of Jesus. With strong ties to Catholicism, most people here exalt Mary, believing that she was divine and therefore deserving of worship. We looked at the marriage feast in Cana: “His mother saith unto the servants, ‘Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it’” (John 2:5). Here, we noted the importance of the fact that Mary pointed to Jesus as the one to follow, the one to listen to and believe. Again, the adults and kids heard how Jesus was the One who freely gave up His life to save us. Mary, while she did have the precious privilege of being His earthly mother, needed salvation from her sins just like we do. He alone is worthy of praise! Only He can save!
We closed in prayer and then the kids lined up to say their memory verses. Caroline and the four girls (Nadine, Natalia, Layane, and Rita) took the names down of all the kids who had memorized the verse for the week and then let them take a special prize gift that we put together in honor of Mother’s Day.
The gift was a small glass bowl filled with chocolate candies (yummy ones too- a rare find here!) and a colorful spoon, all wrapped up and tied with a bow. The kids were very excited to be able to take them home to mom. 
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