Being Able to Help Someone - Brightest Spot of the Day!

It rained throughout the day,  It's raining now.  Will I grow wearing of it?  I doubt it.

We took a small shopping trip to find tomato sauce.  I had wanted to fix a creamy tomato pasta.  But I could only find some tomato passata from Italy, and the ingredients say tomatoes and water.  I brought it home, fixed the pasta and tried it out on SK.  His comment:  too tomato-ee.  Yup, it tasted like I had made it from tomato paste.  I watered it down, and then it tasted like watered down tomato paste.  I may have to drop back and punt......whatever that means.

Laundry and laundry and laundry and Saturday cleaning.  It's all good.  But the day was way too short, and I don't mean daylight.  Our day is practically gone.  We'll participate in the weekly conference call with the mission president, then a conference call with our little Oxford district missionaries, then bed.

The one thing I am happy about today is taking some warm soup to a young woman who teaches our Institute class.  She has been sick for 3 days, and I felt like I should do something 2 days ago and didn't.  She is still under the weather and was so happy to see another face.  She was so grateful to have the humble little offering of soup....I just wish I had planned it out and could have taken her something more akin to a meal.  But that is exactly why I don't do things like that more often....I feel like it has to be some great thing, and I can never think of some great thing to do as service.

SK was heroic, driving me there on the dark wet and rain-pelted streets, with dark figures huddled under umbrellas - difficult to see.  Roads were difficult to see.  Addresses were nearly impossible to see.  But we got there and back with no problems....didn't even get honked at!

I'm just happy I got over there this evening.


p.s.  Starting tomorrow, watch the new nativity video.  It made my cry, it is so beautiful.

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