Two Months Left!

One of the sweetest pleasures here on June 26, 2021 is standing in the kitchen fixing food, with the window open, feeling a cooling breeze wash over me, the clean crisp air whispering through the kitchen. Its one of those simple joys, and I love it. Rain is predicted for the rest of the week, with temperatures in the 60's.

For the first time in several days we took a walk! Life seems to get away from us....me mostly, and I deal with things by taking care of the most pressing things first...focusing in on them and only them. So I let all kinds of things go in the meantime, and when an event is over, I dig myself out and deal with everything that I have on hold.

So this coming week, I have a large stack of papers that need attention and some filing to do.

I did some cleaning, and some baking. I made carmelitas yesterday and refrigerated them. Today, I cut them up and put them in little bags. They are the size of a small brownie and they are rich. But they look so puny. With the way people around here feel about COVID, I thought it wise to individually wrap everything. 

It's been awhile since I made them, and I don't have the typical size sheet pan that I have in America. Even if I did, the oven is not big enough to handle it. So I made them in two smaller pans, and I had to make my own caramel. I think I made too much because biting into one of these carmelitas is like biting into a caramel with a little oatmeal and chocolate. I may or may not serve them tomorrow, opting to keep them in the freezer for the next zone conference or young adult dinner, which will both be coming up regularly. They taste good, but not nearly as good as Melissa's.

So I made two large batches of chocolate chip cookies, and froze the dough. I will bake them Monday morning early. I also made a batch of Almond White Chocolate. I think if I take the two kinds that will do. They will be large cookies, maybe four inches in diameter...just right for hungry young people.

We went shopping to get individual-sized potato chips, bottled water, apples and a few other things for dinner tomorrow evening. Dave and Deb will come for dinner and to spend the evening with us. They are staying at the Courtyard around the corner. I'm looking forward to seeing them again, and thinking how strange and interesting it will be when they are gone.

Monday will be taken up with the leadership training at Pembroke with Reverend Teal. It will be a fantastic day - but I am still wondering about that picnic, with the weather app predicting a 90% chance of rain.

Our speaker this evening at our Saturday night mission call was a neurosurgeon who spoke about the plague of pornography. He was eloquent about the god-given gift of intimacy and sex, and how pornography has turned it into something damaging in so many ways. Dave asked him to speak tonight because Dave is aware of how many struggle with this, and he wanted so much to have it addressed before he left. He was at a mission president's conference two weeks ago and heard about this doctor.

Tomorrow is exactly two months left before our release. We have been talking about what we can do for our young adults in those two months and for our young missionaries. I hope we can help them all understand their worth in Heavenly Father's eyes and how much joy can be found in building a relationship with the Savior.




Comments

Erin said…
2 months! Personally I those carmelitas sound perfect!

The meeting sounds so so good. It's a message that needs to be shared everywhere!
June 26, 2021 at 6:08 PM
melissa said…
Two months!!! Not close enough for me. 😊
July 4, 2021 at 12:15 AM
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