Well, bless the hearts of home teachers in singles wards. Each partnership has around 8 people on their list. I am amazed that they are able to visit each person or even half, what dedicated home teachers. My home teacher, Paul and another guy in our ward, Nate decided to have a huge dinner and invited their home teachees(13 people and I sure we were missing some people.) Directions were given, but some of us struggled finding the house (because bad directions aka wrong address.) One girl, Delayna went to a house looking for the dinner. Knock on the door and heard someone ask her, "who are you and what do you want?" She replied, "I am looking for Paul." "Paul Peterson?" "I don't know, Paul, my home teacher" (small side note: singles apparently don't learn the last names of people.) The voice quickly answered, "You have the totally wrong house." The voice knew that her Paul (Peterson) is not a member or doesn't do his home teaching. This is why I called Paul, the home teacher, to have him meet me and Rebecca outside of the house. Always verfiy before knocking, a good lesson.
We arrive for dinner, in amidst of a crisis. "Rice, how long does it take to cook? What is the correct water/rice ratio?" Nobody knew. I guess singles don't cook very often, we eat out! Who likes cooking for one? Cooking for more one is overwhelming and scary. I will give the cooks credit, we had a great chicken curry, strawberry/spinach salad, and asphargus. The meal was amazing, surprisly the rice was the most difficult for us.
Great conservation happened during dinner as each of us shared a little bit about ourselves, our favorite scars, and favorite breakfast cereal. Some of the scars were physical and others emotional. We learned alot about each other. Two of the ladies had lived in North Carolina and we knew some of the same people. Small world. Others were from Monoglia, no connections there. (yet!) Give the mormons some time, eventually we all know each other.
Rebecca was so excited to use the back door when we left, because then we didn't have to walk up the big hill home. (Rebecca's calls it a mountain. it is between 4th and 5th avenue on B Street.)
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you get a rice cooker. (20 bucks at target) then you add as much rice as you want. then stick your finger on the top of the rice. add water. when the water gets to your first finger line, that's enough! I never cook rice on the stove any more too complicated!
Wow, you have amazing home teachers! I wish mine were so good : ) Too bad they don't know how to cook rice though :(
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