Day 10: Three Kings Day

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, the bilingual school holds a class called "English as a Foreign Language." Kids from the area come for grammar lessons and English songs. Luckily for us Americans, there is a rule that only English may be spoken during class. We were glad that we could participate. Today is Three Kings Day, which is known in the church as the first day of Epiphany. Where our dad grew up, in Puerto Rico, it's a bigger holiday than Christmas. Our family always celebrates this day with a baked potato bar plus lots of candy and other sweet food like chocolate syrup and marshmallows, and tonight we invited some missionary families to have dinner with us. Dad shared about the meaning of this holiday, which marks the day the Magi visited the infant Christ, symbolizing the revelation of Jesus to Gentiles like us. It's really cool to think about that idea while living as a missionary, working to share that same grace with the rest of the world.