A day in the life
On Wednesday we received a call from a crazy old member who convinced us to visit him on Thursday. Thursday rolls around and we go to visit him, try to visit another old investigator, and then we come home for our studies. During Sprach studium, the phone rings, I answer (in German BTW, you should be impressed) and we make an appointment with a nicer old member for Saturday. He calls back a minute later to double check, and my comp answers the phone. We head up to Rotweil and visit an older member and his sister that can't come to church so often, and we walk back. On the way through the city to get to their house we meet another member with his guitar, talk about how he broke it for a minute, then he has to go to school. After the visit we are walking back to the car and we realize that we don't have the phone, and figure that we left it in the apartment. We drive home, and spend the next hour and a half tearing the apartment apart as well as the car before finally giving up and resolving to borrow a phone at the meeting the next day (Friday) to call and order a new phone and pray that we can manage to get to the meeting without having a phone. Transfer calls come on Saturday, so we're sure that we're going to miss them and we fall asleep dejected. We wake up Friday, run to catch an early train, and first thing we see when we get to the car is the phone! Sitting next to the seatbelt buckle as though it hadn't a care in the world.
Baking
We also got transfer calls, and yep, much to my surprise, I'm heading to the office just kidding. Elder Holm and I are staying right here. We're having fun doing everything, and we've begun to invent bread. That's awesome. So we have a few bread recipes, and we made an italian one, a pizza dough, and a batch of rolls. After watching Elder Holm, and making a bread of my own, I thought I would try it without the recipe. I am very happy to report that I now know how to make tortillas! Just mix flour and water, flatten, and then cook on a pan. The next day I thought I would try to make one that rises, and I added some baking soda to the flour and water, and I discovered how pretzels were made! (Elder Holm told me afterward how they are really made, so I added that part in) Make a simple flour and water dough, fill a pot with water and add some baking soda to the water. Bring the water to a boil, and then through the dough (in a shape, naturally) into the water. Bring it back out once it darkens. Voila! The bread I made the second day was merely in the oven, but it was the coolest thing that I had with my own hands, brought a hardened mini bread loaf out of the oven! I am going to continue experimenting, and I'll share my successes with you guys.
I've discovered that cooking is more fun when it's not from a recipe. Cooking from a recipe is fun, and it means you can easily have some very tasty food, aber it is really cool to just put some things together and make something that you can eat, and it's kind of exciting when you don't have a map to follow!
I've discovered that cooking is more fun when it's not from a recipe. Cooking from a recipe is fun, and it means you can easily have some very tasty food, aber it is really cool to just put some things together and make something that you can eat, and it's kind of exciting when you don't have a map to follow!