Miscellany

Wednesday is our big shopping day.  We only visited two stores today.  We are possibly preparing two meals this week because Friday night is temple night and the young people like to eat dinner after their session.  They go to the temple immediately after work, and so they are ravenous by the time they get to the center.

Daniel My Brother sent me some awesome slow-cooker recipes and so we will probably be making a slow-cooker dessert this week.  I think that sounds like great fun.  I really ought to name that cute little cooker....it is such a good friend.  It will get a workout tomorrow night with spaghetti sauce.

After our shopping adventures, we went to the center, where we assembled the spaghetti sauce and warmed it through.  We put it in the refrigerator until morning when we will go back and start it simmering in the slow cooker and in a big pot on the stove top.   We made a ton....well maybe 3 gallons.  I also made 4 very large sugar cookies....I made them in spring-form pans so they are probably 9 to 10 inches in diameter.

Tomorrow, we'll just have to cook the pasta and make the garlic bread.  I'll frost the cookies with sweetened cream cheese and top them with the best looking fruit I can find....fruit pizzas!!!  We are keeping it simple, and not even having green salad.  Sometimes green salads are very popular and sometimes not so much.  We will have some cut fresh veggies and fresh fruit and then the fruit pizzas.
We had a dynamic bunch on Monday night and I hope it carries over, but since we will be there Friday evening as well, I don't know if some will only choose one.

The big Valentine's party in Sweden was quite spectacular according to all reports.  There were about 45 from Denmark.  One of the area authorities told our chairman Louise that Denmark is doing great. He said there is great excitement and enthusiasm from the group.  That is exciting to me.  We have investigators weekly at the center.

My friend from Danish class didn't come tonight to the center, and I so hope and pray that she will be able to overcome the depression that is weighing her down.  Depression is an awful ugly debilitating thing.  If you have a broken leg, you can think clearly enough to get it treated and then seek the necessary therapy.  Depression doesn't always let you think clearly enough to know how to get help.  I am praying for her and praying that I may know how I can help her.

Two elders came to the center tonight to teach the English/Danish class.  They came from the pseudo taco shop down the street where they had eaten dinner.  They were celebrating because the junior partner just passed The Test!  They said that the owner of the shop always gives missionaries a discount...they thought because he gets so much business from the missionaries.  I'm sure he does since his is the only taco shop in Copenhagen that I am aware of.

They went downstairs to get something and didn't come back.  SK went to find them and they were outside on the front sidewalk talking to two men....very interesting looking men according to SK.  The men were mostly interested in debating, and it may have gotten a little heated.

Afterwards when they came up to the center, they told us a little more about it.  I was struck again by their youth, their enthusiasm and lack of guile or cynicism.  After the evening was over, SK told them we could take them to their home which is about 45 minutes away by train, but they declined.  They thought they might see people on the train they could share the gospel with.

Tomorrow evening we have another senior couple coming from a few hours away.  They are coming with a man from their ward who is going to the temple for the first time.  They will stay for a couple of days and nights.  I am not sure we will see them though since they will be up and away early both Friday and Saturday, and we will not be home either night until very late.  I am sure that we will have more opportunities to visit with them in the future...they have been out a few weeks longer than we have and will be coming to Copenhagen at least monthly for the next several months.

Tonight is one of those lovely nights when we can actually get in to bed before midnight and I am taking that opportunity before it gets too late.....

Goodnight one and all!