A hard working family refuses to give in to poverty so the God of Poverty haunting them is to be fired. But they want him to stay. A strange child shouts, "Poor! Trip!" at a poor elderly couple on new years. A poor man gives a priest statue a straw hat, and is given blessings in return.
instead of being happy they 
were very sympathetic.
la pareja no se alegró sino que lo lamentó.
la pareja no se alegró, sino que lo lamentó.
ao invés de ficarem felizes, 
eles simpatizaram com o deus.