Blessed

Monday means Family Home Evening and dinner.  Oh my...dinner.  I think I was too ambitious, and I think I am out of practice!  I made baked ziti - enough for a ward dinner party....which wouldn’t be so bad, except that it was lousy.  Not even half was eaten.  The problem?  Sausage.  Here Sausage is basically Pork encased in an oblong Werner shaped skin.  In Arizona, I buy spicy Jimmy Dean sausage and it is good!  And it gives the dish a tremendous boost.

We bought the ground pork and seasoned it with some Italian spices.  It was labor intensive and kind of expensive to make.  SK was magnificent chopping tomatoes, grating Parmesan, mincing garlic and cutting basil.  I worked on the sauce, boiled the pasta and cooked up the “sausage.”

We had a spinach salad and garlic bread.  We’ll, I’m glad it is over.  Nowhere to go from here but up. The YSAs did love the cream puffs however!

And speaking of the YSAs, we love them.  They are utterly charming.  We had nine here tonight plus 4 young missionaries.  We so enjoyed listening to them laugh and talk, and we enjoyed the getting-to know you activity - which we participated in.  I think it will be great to get to know each one.  That’s one of the things I loved most in Denmark...quiet bits of time visiting one on one as we worked in the kitchen, or sat on a couch.

School starts at Oxford this week, so there may be more or some new ones.  This is an incredible way to serve the Lord.  It reminds me of King Benjamin’s sermon in Mosiah.  You go along serving, thinking you are in some way “paying Him back.”  But then he blesses you for your service and you find that you are still deeply indebted to Him!

Oxford I think - will be a blessing to us.

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