Sabbath Sabbath Sunday Morning

We sat spellbound as our branch's Primary gave the Sunday program today.  It consisted if six beautiful children who sang and spoke.  The Primary President stood beside them them through each song and each talk.  At the end of the program, a little certificate was presented to the oldest child, now officially a young woman.  There is one in the nursery, so in a few months they will be back up to six.  In Relief Society, I sat and listened as hard as I could and got the gist of what was said.  I got the overarching theme, and came away enriched.

I made chocolate chip cookies in the afternoon to take to our YSA Sacrament meeting at 7.  Fortunately, what I had purchased was sugar of some sort, and it was brown, but somewhat more grainy than our brown sugar in the States.  I whipped up the dough and then baked it.  I played with the dials on the oven and baked several batches at different settings.  They came out crisp and thin.  I don't know if it is because of the ingredients or the oven, but they tasted good...just crumbly.  The chocolate chips here are little wafer thin discs of chocolate....and sooooooooooooooooo good!  So I took a large platter of chocolate chip cookies to the center.

Before we went to the center, we ventured out in to the suburbs to the family home of a YSA who will be leaving this week on her mission to Temple Square in SLC.  The house was filled wall to wall with well-wishers.  It was very sweet...literally.  Once again, we found ourselves at a feast of all sorts of wonderful food and desserts.

At the center, we experienced a beautiful spiritual feast.  From the piano music playing as we entered, to the reverent ordinance of the sacrament, to magnificent talks....we were truly uplifted and inspired.  These young adults have a strength of testimony and conviction that Jesus is the Christ that is wonderful to see and hear.

Afterwards they gathered for cookies.  I was in the kitchen with 3 cute young men apologizing for the crumbling cookies.  What came next was fun.  They all have had experience baking and gave me some great suggestions.  The best one was from Joakim, who is a master translator....he does it almost simultaneously as the speaker talks.  He told me that for baking, you must take the Farenheit measurement, subtract 32, divide it by 9 and then times it by 5.  He showed me how to do it, and it works!  One of the others told me how to use the other dial.  They all approached it mathematically and precisely.  If it had been young women, their advice would have been much different.

What a beautiful Sabbath day.