Day Six- Whoo Hoo!

 SK has just left. He will pick up the sisters, and meet the elders at Angie's flat. She is so cute. She has been planning this for weeks. She wanted to fix all the missionaries a dinner of Dominican Republic food. We ate there once with Leticia - her sister. It was excellent, and food that we hadn't tasted before.

They will spend a few hours there just enjoying each other's company. I will work around here - preparing a few things for the meal for our district tomorrow, and beginning a book I have been wanting to read. I need to write some letters too. More people leaving Oxford and I like to write out by hand what they have meant to us.

Maybe when SK gets home we will watch a movie if it isn't too late. We haven't done that in weeks and weeks. Nights are our busiest times it would seem, and it just doesn't seem right to sit down and watch a movie when the sun is up.

Tomorrow we will walk to one of the nearby stores to pick up some things for the dinner. I'm so excited to be able to get out and walk again! Maybe we will even carry an umbrella! One of my happiest memories of Denmark was walking hand in hand under the Mary Poppins umbrella while the rain came down as though from a water hose. Our shoes and legs were drenched but it was delightful!

The meal will be relatively simple (that is what I always sincerely think, and am nearly always proved wrong). I'll report back. Since I have several to fix in the coming week, I am making them very easy on me.

It has rained all day....and been in the 50's. What a gift! I have loved it. We have a week of possible rain ahead of us, and I couldn't be happier about it. Cool temperatures, nice and cool at night and rain in the daytime. Ahhhh.


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melissa said…
Enjoy that weather while you can! Hahaha!
July 3, 2021 at 11:54 PM
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