Princes and Gentlemen

Wednesday is our day to prepare for the meal on Thursday.  Shopping, chopping and baking are generally the order of the day.  Normally we have a car on Wednesdays but it is also transfer week and we have missionaries coming and going all over the place.  Our car was needed to transport many to and from the train station, so we were on foot again.  We don't mind, but it does make it tricky when we have a lot of heavy bags to carry.

Have I mentioned how much I love our YSAs?  I think they are wonderful young adults and I feel that it is such a privilege to work with them.  When I was their age, I never in my wildest dreams imagined that I might someday be 64!!!!  I do remember a few people who were in that range...like my grandmother, but they were sooo old.  So I love it when they come and talk to me and share a little part of themselves with us.

I know they are committed to the gospel.  We have one young woman who is 19 and who was baptized about 6 months ago.  She is fun and happy and so eager to take part in everything.  She gave a talk Sunday in Church, and besides being afraid that she would throw up or pass out, she did a great job.  She got a tattoo on her wrist a couple of years ago and wishes it weren't there.  She is excited to someday go to the temple to be married.  I think she will be a catch for any young man who is her equal spiritually.

I was impressed with two of the young men who spoke with passion about the location of the new center last night.  Their input was asked for and they were articulate and convincing in their arguments. At the heart of what they had to say was that we need to have a place where people can come and feel the Spirit...to relax and enjoy being with others who share their values....where missionaries can come to teach investigators and where the YSAs can introduce friends to the Gospel.

The bus rides today held my interest - as always.  At one point there were two young men, possibly in their 20's...very handsome, both very blond, clean shaven, and with either military bearing or perhaps athletic.  An older woman got on the bus, and they both stood to let her sit down!!!!  That just had to have charmed every female on that bus.

We got most of our shopping done and home by 7 after spending the afternoon at the center.  I began baking and cooking and realized that I was lacking a couple of ingredients (about 10:30 p.m.), so SK walked to three different stores looking for what I needed.  He is always agreeable to do things like that.  He spent his morning trying to change a plug on my new crockpot from England!!!! (oh Joy!), fixing our keyboard (the space bar was out of whack), and doing various and sundry other odd tasks that were begging to get done.

Last week I got home from Relief Society and set up the iron because he was out of white shirts.  I was going to watch a Mormon Tabernacle Christmas concert as I ironed.  I couldn't find the shirts.  I asked SK where they were.  "In the closet," he said.  He had ironed 12 shirts!  That was impressive.

Great "young" men everywhere in Copenhagen!