Good morning mom! It’s me! Elder Berrett! Yeah, so happy,
happy pancake Monday! I’m actually making pancakes today. I was going to try Alton Brown’s pancakes
today, but as I was looking around I realized 1) I don’t have all of the
ingredients, and I have a little bit of Krusteaz left that I just want to
finish off and get rid of and I’m a little too lazy this morning. However, I’m
going to buy stuff at Walmart this week and make it next week.
Wow. It’s been a
really crazy week. Oh! Oh! That box has a hole in it. Good to know. I’ve got flour on me. Apparently my box of Krusteaz has a hole in
it. And so does the bag in the box.
Better not be… nah, okay good.
Worried there for a moment. I was
like, “there better not be mice….” No. It’s not. In Boulder, we live with… you
know, on second thought… I’m just gonna throw this away. Better not risk it, right? In all honesty,
there’s like a tiny, tiny bit left, like I can make a pancake. Maybe. Good thing I have back-up mix. In the house we stay in in Boulder, no more
actually, just spent our last week there, the house over there has mice. So I’m
a little cautious about some of the stuff whenever we go to Boulder.
Did my companion just get some stuff out of the car? I’ll be
right back, I think he might have left the house. Bye! Hey I’m back! Ok yeah,
he heard some birds and wanted to go play fetch with the dog. I can now see him
and hear him. So, it’s alright.
What was I going to do?
Oh yeah, get my mixing bowl. This
week has definitely been a crazy week. Had transfers this week. If I said this
the last transfer, and I’ll say it again, if I can go the rest of my life
without seeing another suitcase, I will be happy. You know, transfers in Wyoming were never that
bad. Maybe it’s just because everyone
from Bozeman, Sheridan, I think even Missoula, no not Missoula, Kallispel,
Butte, Great Falls, Great Falls East… I think there’s like 5 zones that all
just kind of like converge. Not to
mention all the missionaries going to those zones come up in a big transfer
van. That all happens on Wednesday. They have all the zone leaders here, and on
Thursday we have all the new missionaries coming in, so all the zone leaders
come back. And there’s more luggage and other things. This time it was just four sisters. The weather
was so bad, because we just had a giant ice storm pretty much, that President
Wadsworth drove them up himself.
What even is this measuring thing? There’s just like a measuring cup inside the
mix here. And I don’t know, it doesn’t say what it is. If I had to eyeball it, I’d say like a quarter
of a cup. Good thing I already know how
much mix I need. I can eyeball that. I’ve been making it in the same container for
several weeks now. Hmmm. Pancakes sound
good this morning. We just had pancakes Wednesday
with our bishop, one of his missionaries was previously in his ward here, was
in town, because she’s serving in the Butte zone, in Dillon, and she was in a
trio with one of our sisters until she got her missionary, so he fed us dinner
Wednesday night, well really just to feed her, but since we’re his missionaries
he invited us. It was great. He made super, well his wife made super,
super good blueberry pancakes. Oh, I
must have eaten like 7 or 8 of them. Love those. Anyways after that, I was like, “man, I need
to try this Alton Brown recipe because I am sure it is way better than this
stuff”. Because their pancakes were just so perfect. And I’m like, “Alton Brown also makes things
perfect.” Whether or not I can duplicate
it, that’s the question.
Other than transfers this week has been really good, I
promise. It just kinda takes it out of
me. Just so many missionaries moving
around. I definitely went to sleep exhausted that night, let me tell you.
(whistling I Love To See The Temple)
No Butter? We’re out of Butter? We have margarine. I really don’t want to use that stuff. It
just doesn’t taste right. It’s a lot
easier, but it just doesn’t taste right.
And I swear everyone here in Montana uses it. I never really met too
many people in Wyoming, but up here in Helena, everyone uses it. Yeah, no butter. I’d rather use cooking spray. Do we have any of that? Yes! Pam.
Uh, let’s see what else has been going on this week? I
thought of a list last night, I didn’t actually write it down, I thought of a list of stuff that I was
going to talk to you about. Ummm,
clearly that worked out well.
Pam doesn’t taste quite right either, but it tastes better
than margarine in my opinion. Leave your
thoughts in the comments below!
Oh speaking of that, (the obnoxious youtube-esque thing
about the comments) how’s Christopher doing? Love that kid. Oh my goodness,
he’s a hoot.
Oh! Have you seen the
new Restoration video? Oh my goodness.
We were in Boulder, visiting the Grovers. Love that family.
Might be a little too watery, or there’s a great big clump
of flour that I didn’t mix in. There we
go, that helps. Oh, I forgot to actually
turn on the stove.
Let’s see what else has happened, oh yeah, the new
Restoration video. If you haven’t seen it, go to history.LDS.org. Oh my
goodness, super good. Even that whole
website, if you have time to just look at that website, oh man. They go through the whole history, including
like way before. I mean there’s stuff in
there that I’m like, “I didn’t even know that!” They include stuff from all
nine accounts of the first vision.
Joseph Smith’s four I believe, or five, I can’t remember, well and then
there’s four or five other accounts, of things that he had recounted to people.
Like personally, and then they had went and written down. There’s nine accounts
total. And they pulled from all nine of
these to make the most detailed video and account and it’s just, Wow. The spirit is super strong in it. I love it.
I love it. We ate dinner with our bishop
again last night. Super great
family. I love them. And his wife made the comment, “Yeah, it’s
like when they came out with the new temple videos! It just looks so much
better!!” (laughs)
I’m tired. I didn’t
really get to go to bed until midnight last night. I don’t know why. Like I was laying in bed, I was in bed by 10:00. Just couldn’t sleep. Personal study this morning was
wonderful. First Nephi is great. I was…
What was I reading this morning? Yes!
First Nephi 3-5. Just kinda, I don’t know. The differences between Laman and Lemuel are
obviously sticking out to me. One thing
that stuck out to me was how we have to do things together. And how we have to trust the Lord. You know
there’s a reason the Lord sent all four of them because they all had to learn
from each other. Rather than just Nephi,
even though Nephi was, yeah he totally could have done it by himself. As we know he did. Sort of. And you know at
the very end he ended up going into the city by himself, slaying Laban, and
getting the plates. Coming back with
Zoram. But, the Lord does not work that
way. The Lord puts us around other
people that need strengthening, that we need to learn from, and they need to
learn from us. I don’t know, it’s
amazing, the Lords plan for us.
Alright, how long is this recording? 13:40. I’m sorry that this one has been a bit of a
ramble. I’m probably going to send this one off. Oooh, there we go, that was a nice flip. I got my first pancake going, I have the mix
all ready, just flipped it perfectly, I don’t know, I probably would have maybe
made this side a little browner. But it was, I don’t know, I think it’s going
to cook perfectly. I’m excited to eat
that pancake. Elder Shumway just asked
me how many pancakes I’m making, so I think I’m going to make a little
more.
But that’s that for this recording, I’m going to send this
off. I hope you’re having a good day,
we’ve had a pretty great week, Oh, oh my goodness I just remembered something I
was going to tell you, it’s a story, so I’ll have to go into it in my next
recording. But I hope you have a
wonderful day. Love you mom, Bye!
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