WHAT ELSE WE DO....

Since our Branch does not have a lot of members, we sometimes have time to spare during the week after doing what we can for our callings, and visiting with all those who want to visit with us (and those who don't! 😉)  Besides our weekly temple shift, we are asked from time to time to help in other ways.

This week we got a call from the Mission Office telling us of a member of the Church from the DC area, who would love a visit while she was with her daughter for a few weeks in the Boston Children's Hospital.  We were able to go there a couple times, and helped the mother a bit.  There were definitely some things that tore at our heart strings, but we are grateful to meet strong, brave women like the mother of little Esra, who comes here quite often with her daughter.  (We're sad the mother was not in the picture too)

Craig is just too tall for some cameras!

When there have been some Branch parties, and munch and mingles after Church, I have made my rolls.  One of the sisters who kept asking me to teach her to make them had a birthday this week, so I went to her home and we made them together.  The Cape Verdians cook so differently, I don't know that she's ever used yeast, though she's a very good cook.  Because it would do no good to teach her how to make the rolls with equipment she wouldn't have when I wasn't there, we mixed with only a wooden spoon and kneaded with our hands!  And they turned out great!

She used the same rolling pin that I have here - a washed bottle!!!

Additionally, we were able to go with the Elders to teach a new "friend" (we no longer call them "investigators" - that word has been taken out of the new Preach My Gospel).  They can't teach a single woman alone, so they needed us to go.  We love doing that.  We also gave them a ride to a member who is quite far away and Craig was able to teach a struggling member with the Elders.  (Sad we can't always take pictures...)

Lastly, we haven't started it yet, but this week we were asked to do apartment inspections for ten companionships.  Well, the missionaries used to like us....