Serving in the Kitchen

 August 3rd, and the windows are open. The sun has beamed brightly from above throughout the day, and it has been lovely.

I touched bases with some of our dear young friends throughout the day. We are planning a little dinner/get-together for Sunday evening....dinner and visiting. It will be Emma's last day here. It will also be Angie's one-year anniversary since being baptized. She is amazing.

I am planning lunch for the district council on Thursday, and I will take a dessert to the Senior Family Home Evening dinner in London for Friday.

My week will largely revolve around cooking, as it has in the distant past in Denmark and pre-COVID here. But I am comfortable with it. Stressed? Yes, it still stresses me, but I love having the young people here in this flat and I love serving them. They in turn, so far from their homes, love feeling a sense of home and family - and that seems to be intimately connected with sharing a meal.

And besides all that, I have very few weeks left to serve as a surrogate grandmother to all these young people we have come to love.

The Fighting Preacher - is a great movie about a couple who were called to serve in Palmyra New York in the early 1900's. It was the longest-served mission in the church, nearly 25 years! At one point Sister Bean, who had been baking and cooking and serving food all day long to missionaries who were passing through - on their way to their missions or home from them, was weary, fell asleep and dreamed that someone came to her door seeking a meal. She numbly thought, "One more." (I am telling all this in my own peculiar way.) She then recognized the Savior and realized that she was grateful to serve any and all who came to her. She felt in her heart that she was serving the Lord Jesus Christ.

I have in no way served as well, as long or as diligently as Sister Bean, but am giving it a go.

So it is back to cream puff making for this evening, and cookies tomorrow.

I am grateful I have someone to bake cookies for.


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melissa said…
Oh, that’s such a good movie!! We all serve in different ways. ❤️
August 9, 2021 at 1:53 PM
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