Week of the "Linger Longer"

Hello to All:

This week is the last week that we will have the old Temple Presidency here with us. They are actually all being housed in the Accommodation Center too. We will be have what they call “A Linger-Longer” for them on Saturday and Sunday. We have all been put to good use in the preparations doing parts on the programs and cooking up good English food. In fact, we spent a wonderful morning with Sis. Cook today learning how to make real English Trifle and Caramel Short Bread.  We will be cooking up a storm on Friday. These are definitely recipes that I will bring home when the time comes. I did learn several things in our little cooking class. Some of these recipes will be hard to duplicate in the U.S. because we just don’t have all the correct ingredients at hand there. I also found out that the English do not like sweetened whipped cream, in fact, their trifle is not as sweet as what one would expect. Sis. Cook asked us afterward if we didn’t like the less sweetened whipped cream on our trifle and I had to be honest and say that I would prefer to sweeten my whipped cream. Guess that’s the American way. But anyone who knows me, knows how addicted I am to sugar and sweets. By the way, one doesn’t go to the candy store it’s the "sweets shop." 

Here Sister Cook is teaching us to make real English Trifle and Caramel shortbread bars in
the Accommodation Center kitchen

We were all put to work!

We all got to taste!!!

Busy as bees chopping and slicing

Sister Cook in the middle giving instructions

Tell what's next please!

The dishes must be done as well!

We put anyone to work who happened by....President and Sister Lowry included.

Sometimes we need a little sip with something that has "ethyl" in it. 
(Don't tell)

We have started to take some classes, taught by some of the other temple workers, on how to navigate through the new “Family Tree” that the Church has put out. It is a huge data base, and I mean HUGE. For the most part we have been learning how to correct all the mistakes that were made when all the records were combined. At least Niel has been doing some cleaning up. I’ll let you know more as we get deeper into it.

Also, the sister missionaries at the Visitors Center are going to teach how to blog, "missionary blog" that is. I don’t expect to become very proficient at it, but at least I’ll understand what my daughters and daughters-in-law are doing and how they do it. 

Love,

Carolee, mom and grandma