Well good morning mom, happy Monday. The sun is shining, it’s a beautiful day,
it’s warm out. There’s no snow that I
can see except for like on the mountains far off. It’s going to be a good day today. Let’s see, I have exchanges today, I’m
heading in to Helena 2nd ward.
Actually venturing out of my shell a little bit today. Going somewhere else. It’s kinda funny because last transfer, both
exchanges I stayed here. So I’m pretty
excited. It’s going to be fun. I get to be with Elder Rickenbacker. Sorry, I’m… it’s just… it’s so nice out. I’m looking out the window. I can feel the warmth of the sun. I’ve really been enjoying it the last couple
of days because it’s been so long. And I
know I’m going to go home and it’s going to be like 10 times even better. I mean hands down it’s still my favorite
feeling when you get into that warm car that’s been sitting outside for hours
after you’ve been in an air-conditioned building. Granted, that wonderful feeling only lasts
like a few minutes and then you’re scrambling to get the car to cool down. But it’s wonderful.
So I’ll just set this right here and I’ll begin, oh I
probably need to pull up the recipe too.
Will it still record? Yes it
will! Oh, so the pancakes, I think I
told you about them last week, were wonderful.
Oh! So worth the effort. The only
thing that would make them better is blueberries. Hands down, I’m buying some today. With the little money I have left for the
month, I’m buying some today. And, to
top it all off, our bishop’s wife makes her own syrup. Regular and this butterscotch syrup. And she gave me the recipe for it. AND made me a jar. She made it in like 10 minutes. She’s like “How much time do you guys
have?” Cause we were following up with
the Bishop, or we had stopped by the house real quick to report something, I
asked her for the recipe, and she’s all “I’ll just make you some, How much time
do you have?” And I’m all “Well we need to get going in a couple minutes
here.” And she’s like “Okay, I’ll just
make a quick batch!” Boom! 10 minutes later hands me this mason
jar. I’m really excited to try it. The recipe is
½ cup butter
2 cups sugar
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp baking soda
1 Tbs corn syrup
Boil one minute, then add 1 tsp vanilla.
Okay, so maybe it was buttermilk syrup, not butterscotch,
but anyways, I had it last time. I ate
dinner at their house, and it was the most fantastic syrup I’ve ever had in my
life. And I’m so excited to try this! On the buttermilk pancakes. I think I still
have enough buttermilk. Oh yeah, totally. Plus it expires the 24th
of May. (March) I’m assuming however,
the buttermilk is like milk and you’re fine for a couple of days. It doesn’t smell horrid. I shake it and I’m
not seeing any curdles or separating. I
think I’m fine. And, well, I don’t have
any other option. I didn’t buy any regular milk last week. My companion drank straight out of the gallon
a couple days ago cause he’s like “You don’t drink this milk anyway”. So funny.
Ok. I’m just staring
at the syrup, and outside, and it’s going to be a wonderful day. I’m super excited. I love the photos you sent me! I actually
have a, its kinda cool on the android, apparently you can have multiple users
on the device, and I can edit the user pictures and mine is of me in that
little frog t shirt with just like the crazy spiked hair and the biggest grin
on my face. I love those pictures you
sent me. Ok. Oh here we go. Also I got that email you sent me, and thank
you so much for actually watching that, believe me I was, I was like, “If I could
watch ONE thing right now, it would be Alton Brown’s pancake video” and you
solved that. You’re wonderful.
(yawns) I had a
wonderful night’s sleep last night. We
got to sleep in until 6:30. The last
couple of days we’ve been waking up at 5:45 or 5:30 for things. Our mission leader wanted to correlate with
us before ward council in the morning yesterday so we got up pretty early for
that. I don’t remember why we got up early
Saturday though. I can’t remember. All’s well that ends well. (yawns) I don’t know why I’m yawning right
now.
Oh yes, I actually need to make the mix. So I think I was going to divide the mix in
half, this week, cause way too many pancakes last week. And if worse comes to worse, if I need a
little bit more, I can just make like a quarter of a batch. Which I don’t know how I’ll do that because a
full batch requires two eggs, I can’t put in ½ an egg… All’s well that ends
well. It’ll work out.
Ok. Directions. Okay, now you said that I need to shake up
the mix that I made every now and then, cause the ingredients like
separate. I have the mix in a Ziploc
bag, not a lidded container, sorry Alton Brown.
He probably despises Ziploc bags or something like that. Cause they slowly release too much oxygen, or
they separate the hydrogen from the oxygen as it goes in… and I don’t know. (shaking bag)
But I will consider this thoroughly mixed up.
Now instant
pancakes. I have my thing. “Heat an electric griddle” ok, yeah, blah,
blah, blah… oh crap. Oh, what?! No! Ok, so I just throw in let’s see, 1 cup
buttermilk, that’s first. I am really excited about these pancakes
again. And now that I can actually
pretend like I know what I’m doing, they’ll be even better, faster, and easier
to clean up. So one cup buttermilk, one
egg…Look at me doing fractions and math.
Granted dividing two by two wasn’t exactly the hardest thing ever. We’ll see how I am when I get to the “one
stick of butter”. Oh, that’s just for
greasing the pan. A whole stick of
butter?? I’m pretty sure it said in the video to limit that amount. I’ll have to go back and read that email you
sent. I usually just use like a
tablespoon or something in the pan, let it melt, move it around.
Let’s see, what happened this week so far that I can talk
about? Oooh! Gospel sing last
night! That was awesome! Gospel Sing, I think I told you about this
earlier, is something that the town of Townsend does. Once a month, basically the whole community
gets together, and they sing gospel songs about Christ. They take turns hosting it at different
churches. This month was hosted at our
church and the whole zone came, and we sang Called to Serve and A Child’s
Prayer. It was so amazing! I loved it!
Honestly though, my favorite were probably the Methodist songs, and the
Methodists. I mean just picture this
Methodist choir up there, there’s a guy playing the spoons, a guy playing the
acoustic guitar, singing, and everyone's just kinda singing in this choir, and
then there’s this guy on the banjo just sitting there in the back. He’s got
this beard and everything. It was so
great. I loved it. And the best part was, thanks to The Lower
Lights, I knew all the songs! (laughs)
We’re singing along and it was great.
I had a blast.
What else do I have to do?
Oh, melted butter. Duh. Two tablespoons. I’m like, “I feel like I’m forgetting
something.” Yeah. The melted butter. (singing unknown song) Anyways, Gospel Sing was awesome. We have an investigator in Boulder that we
are planning on bringing. He was a
Baptist preacher for quite awhile in Georgia, so we really think that he’ll
enjoy himself at the Gospel Sing next month.
I don’t know why we didn’t think of it earlier. We were kind of sitting there, and we were
saying “Oh My Goodness. Mike NEEDS to be
here. He needs to be here.”
Umm, let’s see… What else happened this week? Interviews with President. They were awesome. I had a
really great interview with him. We
talked a lot. Was Zone Conference this
week? Yeah! Holy Cow. We also had zone conference this week. Not even close to being melted. I saw a lot of great old friends. Elder Bredsgard – He served in Thermopolis
pretty much the whole time I served in, well, the Big Horn Basin, down in
Wyoming, so we got to know each other really well. He’s a stud.
Works really hard. Love him to
death. He’s currently the zone leader in
Butte right now. So I was asking him how
people in Butte were doing. How’s Carl
and Ross… I actually got a facebook
message. Someone posted on my wall. The Burkes.
He was previously in the… Oh! I’m
getting a call. From Michigan? It was just some, I don’t know, recorded call
“Your Google listing is about to inspire”
(I think he meant expire, but I left the mistake in because it made me
giggle) “Your google listing is about to expire. If you are a business, call this number to
resolve it.” Or “Press one now to talk with me.” And I’m just like,
whatever. We ain’t no business. So that’s that. Let’s see…
“two cups of fresh fruit such as blueberries, if desired.” Well, it’s definitely desired, it’s just not
accessible right now. (yawn) Why am I yawning so much? One cup of instant pancake mix. I think we ran into this before. At least I know where the 1/3 cup is. (whistling Star Wars)
Oh! Here’s another thing that happened this week, that you’ll appreciate. I tried Cane’s Chicken. We have this less active that we work with, Steven, he’s from the Valley. He’s awesome. I love working with him, teaching him, and helping him to come back. He’s struggling a bit right now with faith, but he’s getting there. Anyways, he fed us lunch and made us homemade Cane’s chicken with their sauce. Elder Shumway later said that it was good, but it definitely wasn’t as good, and it was pretty dang fantastic, so I’m pretty excited to try that. I don’t know if it’s like Get Home and Gotta Try Cane’s Chicken, but if that’s where the kids want to go I’ll be down for it. Honestly, I’m fine with anywhere. I do miss Chipotle, not gonna lie. And my clothes are done. So I’m gonna go change my clothes, well, I meant I’m going to go change a load. And I’ll be back up here. How long has this recording been going for? 15 minutes. Ok, I’m going to pause this and send it off. Love you! Bye.
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