Two classes, enchiladas

Friday morning Dee woke up feeling quite a bit better, after a lot of rest. It would still be a long day for her in the kitchen, but she ended the day better than she started it. I am very jealous of her ability to get over colds so quickly. About 9am I headed over to the mission office for some IT support. Sorella Knies is training Sorella Thacker to take over in a few weeks. I configured a few small things for them, but the big issue is that they need a PDF editor to manage a bunch of files they get sent for new missionaries: extract pages, rotate pages, etc. Sorella Balzotti has a copy of the Adobe Acrobat and can do that stuff, but Sorella Knies doesn't. The problem is that she didn't even know what to ask for to solve the issue. I told them to ask church IT if they have a site license; if not, I will buy them a copy of Foxit PhantomPDF, which is what we use and is cheaper than Adobe's product.
 
I also gave Anziano Thacker his Ganziano tie, and he was thrilled by it. We are having great responses from everyone to whom we give a tie, making it very fun for us. Dee and I left early to get to the Institute, since Dee hadn't been able to do all her usual enchilada prep the day before. She took some Dayquil early in the afternoon and seemed to get stronger all the time. While she was in the kitchen, I finished working on both my lessons. Dario came about 3pm to help her make the enchiladas. He likes to learn things in the kitchen. Dee also made a few batches of Spanish rice to fill the kids up more. Because of our small oven, she can only make about 32 enchiladas, and we usually have 25+ kids.

 

 

We had an all-time high attendance for my 4pm Seminary class: eleven kids! The word has gotten out that our class is the cool place to be. Some of them come directly from school and hang out or study for hours before class. Our lesson took half an hour, followed by half an hour of scripture games. Dee just put out several kinds of store-bought cookies instead of her usual homemade goodies, because she didn't have time to do otherwise. They enjoyed them all the same. The Oreos were a big hit.

 

 

My Institute class went really well on D&C 4, 11-12, 14-16, and 19. They listened intently to my stories, and a number of kids had good comments. The group was a little smaller than the prior week, but the room was still almost full. There were three new investigators present, as well as three people online via Zoom. At the end of the lesson I made a big presentation of the ties to the Ganziani, who were also really excited to get them. The little embroidered 'G' on them adds a special touch. The kids all applauded when I stepped into the room.

 

Ganziani with their new ties

 

The library was the major gathering place

Dinner is served, with lots of cheese

  

 

It was raining really hard all evening, including during our drive home. The weather has been very pleasant, in the upper 70s most days. I am back to long sleeves, and we use the AC very little. This is the Rome weather I expected year round. It is great to have Dee back in the land of the living.