Many Hands Make Work Light

Brother Andersen (Director of Seminaries and Institutes for Denmark)predicted about 20 YSAs would show up to help pack up the center.  SK thought not.  It has been a busy week for them - school just started, work and heavy church callings along with having already spent three evenings of their week at the center (or a birthday party).

We must have had over 25....many came just for an hour or two, some stayed the entire time.  It was astonishing to see how much they accomplished in just a few hours.  They worked at a variety of tasks.  I had several in the kitchen with me packing plates, glasses, pots and pans, seasonings, utensils, paper products etc.  We filled far too many boxes....where will it all go when we get to the new center?

Just a couple of cute pictures from our mission conference earlier.  These cute guys are fantastic!

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Brother Andersen said he would meet us on Monday to take a look around to see exactly how much storage space we have.  That will help...as it was, I think I put a lot of things in the discard pile.  The mission will take many things to put in missionary housing and some of the YSAs are needing furniture for their apartments, so most of what has to be tossed overboard in this move will be useful to someone.

Pizza was ordered and all sat around on the remaining furniture happily munching away and sipping Fanta.  Amazing how good an ordinary little piece of pizza can taste so good.

After we got home, we walked with the Parkers to The Church of our Lady so they could see the Christus.  It was their third try.  Tonight, like the other two attempts was unsuccessful...it was closed.  We are hoping they get to see it before they have to leave.

We stopped at a schawarma restaurant and had a sandwich, which was a little disappointing.  Since we just discovered this delicacy, we have had two....from two different restaurants.  Both others were superb.  Hopefully the Parkers will have a chance to try a better one sometime.

We went on a grocery shopping expedition.  I feel great sympathy for them with just starting this adventure.  Grocery stores caused me much stress while I was trying to figure out ingredients, serving sizes and package sizes.  They are much quicker than I and seemed to understand most everything.

To end the day, we sat around the table, opened a large white box full of bakery goodies and with knife and fork in hands, took a sample of each pastry.  With a large glass of cold milk.  Oh my.