The Cake That Couldn't
September 23, 2018
Danish Word of the Week: Kage - cake!
Danish Fun Fact: Most danish receipes are in weights (such as grams) and in dl, ml, etc.
Fun Danish Mission Fact: Our apartment is not equipped with such measuring instruments.
This week was a great one so BUCKLE DOWN. The Assistants to the President were in Jylland all week, so we got to use their car! She be niiiiiiiice. WAY too nice for a mission car. Her name is Zoe. She's a hybrid and boy is she smooth. It was really fun to be able to drive a car, a luxury I miss and don't miss all at once. We had her for a wonderful 2 1/2 days. It was lovely.
We did a LOT of finding this week. Many of our appointments cancelled, so we hit the streets and met some pretty interesting people! It felt good just to spread the word.
On Thursday we had to give the car back (hej hej Zoe) and we took Koo to SUV! SUV (Stavens Unge Voksne = YSA basically) is dinner and institute combined with all of the youth in the Copenhagen stake between the ages of 18 and 30. It was so fun! One of the elders brought his Korean friend from high school, so that was fun for Koo. It was also really fun to see so much youth, especially because I had no idea how many young adults there really are here. Koo had a good time and it was good for him to meet some awesome and faithful people his age.
Thursday night after we came in, I decided to make a cake. We have this wonderful recipe from someone in our ward for this chocolate cake that they made for Kim's baptism and I decided to bake it. Because of the problems stated above, it was a little difficult. All of the measurements were in grams and I had only cups. So I did a LOT of math to try to figure out just how much of dry ingredients and liquid ingredients I needed, and I got the batter together with only a few messups. The recipe made a LOT of batter, and me being the well experienced baker that I am thought that it would be okay to put it all into the pan, filling up the pan completely. That was not the wisest decision. After 15 minutes in the oven, I check the cake to find it over every surface of the oven. Turns out, cakes rise when they bake. Who knew? So I took the cake out and scooped much of the still liquid batter into a bowl and, not really knowing what else to do, put the cake back in the oven. After that finished baking and I put the glaze on, it really didn't taste that bad, but definitely not like the cake that the member baked. So we're going to try again and hopefully my baking abilities will improve.
On Saturday we had a lesson with a referral from Salt Lake! She is a student doing a religious project on our church and wanted to meet up to ask some questions about the church. We planned to meet her and her friend at the church building that morning. We rode up to the church and soon discovered that there was a wedding going on that we had absolutely forgotten about. We snuck into one of the upstairs rooms and talked with them there. After the lesson and after they left, it started to rain elephants and pigs and our only option was to take refuge inside the church with the wedding guests. We only stayed until the rain let up 5 minutes later, but I thought that it was amusing that our innocent lesson turned into us crashing a wedding.
Yesterday was 100% the highlight of the week. To begin, Søster Calame and I played a musical number. I do love pulling that flute out whenever I can. Then we had two guests, Kim, and Lene come to church! It was a wonderful sacrament meeting, all about missionary work. We also had a great sunday school AND a lovely relief society lesson. We had a very special guest at church named Al Carraway, and some of you may know her as ''the tattooed mormon.'' She is so cool. She is staying with our bishop, and we got to eat lunch with her right after church and hear from her later that evening at a fireside. She is absolutely incredible. We got our friend Louise to come because our bishop offered to babysit her 4 kids (coolest bishop in the entire world). It was so good for her to hear someone's conversion story, and one that Louise could totally relate to. It was amazing.
Another amazing thing is that we have started teaching this man named Patrick. He is engaged to a member in a different ward and was being taught by the missionaries there, but he actually lives in our ward and so we get to finish teaching him. He already has a baptismal date for the 3rd of November. He is so cool. We sat down planning to teach him the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but he ended up teaching us. He shared his testimony with us and how his biggest desire is to raise a family in the church. His fiancee was planning on going on a mission (she even had her call), but then met Patrick. She had been going back and forth between getting married or leaving on a mission, and as of right now she chose marriage. That has been hard for her family to grasp. So this young and very in love couple has been dealing with that. Patrick is very excited for his baptism and very very happy about the church. He had dated a different member 8 years ago and last year contacted one of his member friends saying that he felt that he should go back to church. Him and his fiancee met at institute. I'm really excited to keep working with him and helping him be baptized.
This week was a week full of miracles. I am constantly amazed at how much God really does love us, and trusts us. I'm so happy and so grateful for the opportunity I have to meet such amazing people and have these incredible experiences. I love what I do every day.
Tak for alt og ha' en god uge!
Søster Esplin
raya.esplin@myldsmail.net
Danish Word of the Week: Kage - cake!
Danish Fun Fact: Most danish receipes are in weights (such as grams) and in dl, ml, etc.
Fun Danish Mission Fact: Our apartment is not equipped with such measuring instruments.
This week was a great one so BUCKLE DOWN. The Assistants to the President were in Jylland all week, so we got to use their car! She be niiiiiiiice. WAY too nice for a mission car. Her name is Zoe. She's a hybrid and boy is she smooth. It was really fun to be able to drive a car, a luxury I miss and don't miss all at once. We had her for a wonderful 2 1/2 days. It was lovely.
We did a LOT of finding this week. Many of our appointments cancelled, so we hit the streets and met some pretty interesting people! It felt good just to spread the word.
On Thursday we had to give the car back (hej hej Zoe) and we took Koo to SUV! SUV (Stavens Unge Voksne = YSA basically) is dinner and institute combined with all of the youth in the Copenhagen stake between the ages of 18 and 30. It was so fun! One of the elders brought his Korean friend from high school, so that was fun for Koo. It was also really fun to see so much youth, especially because I had no idea how many young adults there really are here. Koo had a good time and it was good for him to meet some awesome and faithful people his age.
Thursday night after we came in, I decided to make a cake. We have this wonderful recipe from someone in our ward for this chocolate cake that they made for Kim's baptism and I decided to bake it. Because of the problems stated above, it was a little difficult. All of the measurements were in grams and I had only cups. So I did a LOT of math to try to figure out just how much of dry ingredients and liquid ingredients I needed, and I got the batter together with only a few messups. The recipe made a LOT of batter, and me being the well experienced baker that I am thought that it would be okay to put it all into the pan, filling up the pan completely. That was not the wisest decision. After 15 minutes in the oven, I check the cake to find it over every surface of the oven. Turns out, cakes rise when they bake. Who knew? So I took the cake out and scooped much of the still liquid batter into a bowl and, not really knowing what else to do, put the cake back in the oven. After that finished baking and I put the glaze on, it really didn't taste that bad, but definitely not like the cake that the member baked. So we're going to try again and hopefully my baking abilities will improve.
On Saturday we had a lesson with a referral from Salt Lake! She is a student doing a religious project on our church and wanted to meet up to ask some questions about the church. We planned to meet her and her friend at the church building that morning. We rode up to the church and soon discovered that there was a wedding going on that we had absolutely forgotten about. We snuck into one of the upstairs rooms and talked with them there. After the lesson and after they left, it started to rain elephants and pigs and our only option was to take refuge inside the church with the wedding guests. We only stayed until the rain let up 5 minutes later, but I thought that it was amusing that our innocent lesson turned into us crashing a wedding.
Yesterday was 100% the highlight of the week. To begin, Søster Calame and I played a musical number. I do love pulling that flute out whenever I can. Then we had two guests, Kim, and Lene come to church! It was a wonderful sacrament meeting, all about missionary work. We also had a great sunday school AND a lovely relief society lesson. We had a very special guest at church named Al Carraway, and some of you may know her as ''the tattooed mormon.'' She is so cool. She is staying with our bishop, and we got to eat lunch with her right after church and hear from her later that evening at a fireside. She is absolutely incredible. We got our friend Louise to come because our bishop offered to babysit her 4 kids (coolest bishop in the entire world). It was so good for her to hear someone's conversion story, and one that Louise could totally relate to. It was amazing.
Another amazing thing is that we have started teaching this man named Patrick. He is engaged to a member in a different ward and was being taught by the missionaries there, but he actually lives in our ward and so we get to finish teaching him. He already has a baptismal date for the 3rd of November. He is so cool. We sat down planning to teach him the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but he ended up teaching us. He shared his testimony with us and how his biggest desire is to raise a family in the church. His fiancee was planning on going on a mission (she even had her call), but then met Patrick. She had been going back and forth between getting married or leaving on a mission, and as of right now she chose marriage. That has been hard for her family to grasp. So this young and very in love couple has been dealing with that. Patrick is very excited for his baptism and very very happy about the church. He had dated a different member 8 years ago and last year contacted one of his member friends saying that he felt that he should go back to church. Him and his fiancee met at institute. I'm really excited to keep working with him and helping him be baptized.
This week was a week full of miracles. I am constantly amazed at how much God really does love us, and trusts us. I'm so happy and so grateful for the opportunity I have to meet such amazing people and have these incredible experiences. I love what I do every day.
Tak for alt og ha' en god uge!
Søster Esplin
raya.esplin@myldsmail.net
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