Developing Talent #2 ~ Learn to sing, play, or lead a song from the Children’s Songbook. Teach or share the song in a family home evening or at Primary. Discuss how developing talents helps prepare us for service to Heavenly Father and others.
It was all started with the small and kind hearts of our couple missionary, Elder and Sister Colman from US. Both of them indeed are a very kind, genuine and sincere people who come from US and serve in Malaysia. They had sold off their farm land back in US, so that both of them can serve and doing the Lord’s work in this foreign land.
Sister Colman is a very nice and sweet lady. She is very hardworking too. She volunteer herself to teach the interested sisters and brothers whom wants to learn music. Sister Annie from our Puchong Branch gathered all the interested names or participants to submit to Sister Colman.
Sister Colman helped to write and submit the letters and application forms whichever needed to the Jack and Wauna Harman Foundation to get the music training materials and the keyboards sets.
This is the Harman Grant sponsored training, which required no fees at all. But all of the participants need to sign a guarantee form that, they would serve in the Church after acquire this talent from the coarse.
Issac is one of those participants in this Church-sponsored program. The program was started back in March, every Saturday in Puchong chapel with 2 time slots – 11.00am or 12.00 noon. We choose to attend 11.00am class as Issac and Annabelle have their routine art class at Jane Yap Atelier at 1.00pm.
The coarse started with teaching how to conduct the music for the first and second lesson, then it was continued with the keyboard course. Learning how to see and read the music notes, play the simple hymns and practice at home.
All of the participants, took them about 7 months, learning the keyboard from no or zero basic knowledge at all to pick up the skills of the basic concepts of playing piano or keyboard.
There are Sister Saffron, Sister Chee Mun, Sister Amy, Sister Annie, Sister Yna and our very own young boy Issac. Issac is the only Primary boy that participated in this program and taught by Sister Colman. And, he is the youngest among all!
Sister Colman organised this small Christmas Recital during this Christmas season to celebrate and let all the students to present what they have learned throughout this 7 months.
Both Elder and Sister Colman came early today as they set up the light refreshment corners at the side of the chapel. There were simple and sweet: a nice pumpkin roll cake, some brownies and cakes, prawn and fish crackers.
Before that, an invitation card had been given out to all the participants and their family members, to invite friends and family to come and join this meaningful event for all the Sister Colman’s students!
The program started with Sister Colman giving her speech, she expressed her love to each and every student, what is their strenght and how is their learning process and all about their goodness! She is indeed a kind and loving lady.
The program begins with High On a Mountain Top by Sister Saffron.
Away In A Manger by Sister Chee Mun.
Oh Come All Ye Faithful by Sister Amy.
Jingle Bells duet by Issac & Sister Colman.
Silent Night by Sister Saffron.
Away in A Manger by Sister Yna.
Joy To The World duet by Sister Annie & Sister Colman.
The Christmas Recital was a successful one! Even though the audiences turned out are all the family members of the participants, but it is really a delight to know that your loving ones have pick up a skill and can be serve in the Church in the future.
Our family feel blessed and grateful for the service and the love shown by Elder and Sister Colman to our branch. We are grateful to have the opportunity to meet with this couple missionary too. 
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