Bob: Up early this morning for exercise. Today is Fast Sunday so no breakfast today. Heading for church at 9:00. Going to ask the brethren in Priesthood Class what they would do if someone asked them to tell them about the church. Should lead to some interesting discussion.
CONGRATULATIONS TO BYU FOOTBALL. WENT TO TEXAS AND PASTED THE LONGHORNS 41 - 7. LOOKS LIKE UTAH IS ALSO OFF AND RUNNING AS THEY ARE NOW 2 - 0.
Bonnie: Now I can say I've had an authentic English dinner! Sister Margetson, who we've mentioned before, is from England. She is a very classy lady. She just turned 80 years old and is the chorister in Church including the Primary. She is the Poet Laureate of Cobalt, Ontario, is on the Museum Board, and the Theatre Board of that community. When I say theatre, I mean plays, concerts and musical productions put on by the community. Last year she performed in a production of Les Miserables. She has been a Stake Relief Society President and a temple worker for several years. As we've mentioned, we took her with us the two times we went to the Toronto temple. This beautiful sister invited us to have dinner today. To start out, Ann showed me how to "fold" the napkins. I'll have to ask her again what they are called...lily somethings. She was taught to do this by her grandmother! They look like flowers when you're done and are put under the glasses of water at each place setting. It was a three course meal. Our first course was beef onion soup, with cheese to put on top. That was followed with a well seasoned beef roast, potatoes, peas and carrots and dark delicious gravy. But the high-light was the yorkshire pudding! If you've never had it you've missed a treat. It turns out that they are like rolls, but puffy and hollowed out in the middle. This is where you put the gravy. They can be eaten with a knife and fork or in your hands. Absolutely heavenly. The last course was trifle for dessert. Jello with lady fingers was the bottom layer, a layer of pudding, ( I think,) topped with another color of jello with fruit in it, topped with pudding, then real whipped cream on top of that. She was out of sprinkles and cherries which is what she usually puts on top of the cream to finish it off. She must have worked all day yesterday to prepare all of this. Then, she gave us a gift, a little hand-made decorative vase that can be used for lotion or flowers without the stopper, of course. We were very full, needless to say, and so appreciative of all the work she did. We insisted on doing the dishes for her.
After we waddled out from her place, we stopped by the church to make some calls. Then, we delivered a Book of Mormon to a lady in New Liskeard. It was a media referral. She and her son had seen the "Book of Mormon" musical in Toronto and she wanted a Book of Mormon to give her son as a memento. We wrote our testimonies inside the front cover, asking her and her son to read Moroni's promise in Moroni 10: 4-5. We'll see what happens! Then, we visited another single sister with whom we enjoyed a long conversation. She asked Bob to pray before we left. We got home about 7:15 pm or so, another long Sabbath day, but very enjoyable.
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