this week has cruised along pretty well. We get to go to the temple this Monday, which will be very exciting (have you guys gone since it changed a little bit?).
I have a few peanut butter related stories I remembered I could tell. A few weeks ago we had dinner at the Roberts family. They're great. the daughter wasn't going to be at church because she was going to a camp or something with her Shakesphere group, and when the group heard she was going to leave early to come to church on sunday they said she should stay and they could all go to her church together! So her whole group went to the local LDS unit nearest there camp. That was cool, but not peanut butter related, but the dinner was. We sat down and the food on the table was 1. Lettuce, 2 Tomatoes, 3 Potatoes, and 4 a pot of orange thick gravey looking stuff. They explained in the pot was a peanut sauce (basically like melted peanuts I guess) which you pour on top of the food. And that was the meal! lettuce with potatoes and tomatoes with a peanut sauce on top. I almost never ever like tomatoes, but I didn't mind them on this. It was interesting and different, even kind of tasty. I think they like to try to be vegetarian, I can't remember for sure though.
This week we invited the father of that family to come to a lesson with us. He came, and it was good, and he gave us some chocalate cake to take home. After taking a bite it was clearly a peanut butter chocolate. It looked like regular, but the frosting must have been some peanut butter concoction. Very interesting. Sister Roberts must like peanuts a lot or something.
BTW does dad ever get invited to go out with the missionaries? If there is an active man (ages 16+) in our branch that doesn't come out with us at least occasionally it's because they've rejected us the multiple times we've asked.
the third peanut thing is our attempt and making chocolate peanut butter bars (peanut butter, nesquick and milk and popped int eh freezer). They were interesting. certainly not bad, but only on the fringe of actually good. We need to do something to make it more chocolatey. Not sure nesquick alone can do it. We'll try a batch with Breakfest Essentials to make a healthy version too.
Of course we really really liked general conference. A lot of missionary talk on saturday! (notice the exclamation point!) We're going to start making index cards or something with our investigators names on it so we can give them to members to ask them to pray for them, as the speaker, Nielson talked about. He is coming to our mission in november. (I think it was spelled Nielson. He is 70.) One of our investigators said she cried during President Monson's talk. I lot of people talked about how even if something immoral becomes legalized, and accepted, it is still wrong in god's eyes. We wonder if something bad is going to get legalized soon.
President Monson talking directly on home teaching was also interesting. There were tons of very good ones.
We are driving down to Amherst today for Pday with a lot of our Zone. Not positive what the main activity will be. Maybe basketball, which would be exciting. We're going down to the card store today so Elder Gallagher can buy more magic cards. The people there (the ones working and the people who just hang out) are the height of geekyness, and very nice. We think they should get baptized.
An interesting thought came to me during a lesson yesterday while Elder Gallagher was talking. We were talking about how Alma (I think in Alma 28) says he wishes he was an angel and could declare the gospel to everyone and they all would listen. Do you remember Alma's conversion story? He did literally have an angel come and call him to repentance, which would be why he wished everyone could have the same experience. I think that stuck me because I think along those same lines sometimes; I was born into an LDS family surrounded by mission-goers and good examples. Why can't everyone have that? Why did I? I don't really know the answer, but we're all put where we need to be. We need to march forward with the knowledge we have, love those around us, carry our cross, try to learn what Heavenly Father wants us to do, and do it!
That's everything for now. I'll be be be here to "talk" next week (maybe tuesday because the library is closed).
Love, Me
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