Perfection in a Cake - or "Rolling Forth" Part II

This evening we here in Copenhagen participated in the worldwide indexing project the Church has organized. The record in one 24-hour period is over 49,000 participants, but they want to break the record.  With 3 hours left to go, there have been over 56,000 participants.  It is great fun to be a small part of such a large undertaking.

We have a senior couple here in Copenhagen whose mission is to take pictures of records in the National Archives.  Each day, all day they snap away.  But they are not alone....all over the world there are senior couples who take high quality photos of country's census, birth, marriage and death records. The pictures are digitized and put on a web site.  Also a copy is given to the country.

Someone is needed to go online and type in the information on those records.  So there are people everywhere who go online for a few minutes at a time or an hour or so and type the information found there.  Every record is looked at and typed by at least two people to avoid errors.  If the two typed records disagree, then a third person (an arbitrator) is called in to resolve it.

It is a great way to make a valuable contribution to something very important.  Once those records have been digitized, anyone anywhere in the world can search the information for their family information and find it in official documents.  I have several grandchildren who are doing this.

So for Family Home Evening, we had 27 young single adults there.  Not all brought a laptop, but many did.  Some couldn't sign in...must be all the the thousands of people signing in all around the globe.  Everyone who could  - helped do indexing and so I am excited to see the final number and know that not only our YSAs participated, but our sweet grandchildren so far away did too.

I got a special treat tonight.....we have a YSA who is a baker by profession...who specializes in cakes, and I am not talking about run-of-the-mill ordinary cake, but seriously good cake.  She and I were talking last week about rhubarb.  I just couldn't imagine how anyone could make anything mildly delicious with that stuff!  Tonight, she brought in a rhubarb cake.  It had no frosting and was in a loaf shape.

It was amazing.  It had a beautiful light crispy buttery crust on top.  It was a dense yellow cake with small chunks of rhubarb and somewhere in that decadent piece of cake was hidden a hint of marzipan.  I think I am in love!  She also had made some small meringues which are called kisses here.  They were perfect.

She and I talked for awhile.  It was so enjoyable to have a few moments to catch up with her.  She will be at Festinord....so I think we'll be able to talk again.  I visited with another YSA who is our food chairman.  She had made a wonderful chocolate cake but was worried about how it tasted.  She asked if I would sample it.  So she cut a little slice and topped it with ice cream!  It  was delicious.

We ended up staying until midnight just talking with several of them....some of the very best young adults you'll find anywhere.  They are funny and fun and serious about living the gospel.  THAT was almost better than the cake!