Genny
and me. They visit us each month individually, bringing their love, friendship, and a spiritual message but this time, they planned this special visit where we could all get together. It was such fun!
Sarah is about 7 months pregnant, so Lynne prepared the food, and Sarah hosted the gathering at her lovely home. She left her Christmas decorations up to catch a remnant of the season. Here's her gorgeous tree -- comparable to some of the most lovely ones I've seen at Festival of the Trees. She designed it and decorated it herself.
Lynne prepared a scrumptious salad, chicken fingers, and rolls, the recipes for which she promises to post on her blog soon. The salad was a Caesar salad generously embellished with marinated artichoke hearts, cremmi mushrooms, Lynne's own re-hydrated tomatoes (she grows small Italian tomatoes each year to dehydrate and make into savory tomatoes...mmmmmmm), as well as the black olives and freshly grated parmesan of the traditional Caesar salad. Lynne tossed the salad with a delicious garlicky dressing. We added our own "nutty chicken fingers", made with coconut and walnuts, to our individual salads. Lynne got that recipe from Carolyn, another sister in our ward. She also has duplicated Magleby's delicious rolls, rolled in butter, parmesan and parsley.
Lynne really ought to open a luncheon cafe. A very talented lady in the kitchen. Not to mention talented painter and writer.
We visited while we ate, and Sarah shared this month's message: Stand Strong and Immovable in Faith, and the scriptures that accompany it. She emphasized the quote from Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles who said, "You cannot today remotely imagine what that decision to be unwaveringly obedient to the Lord will allow you to accomplish in life. Your quiet, uncompromising determination to live a righteous life will couple you to inspiration and power beyond your capacity right now to understand."
(From "Making the Right Decisions," Ensign, May 1991, 34).
Left to right: Maisel, Sarah, Lynne and Genny
The real heart of Visiting Teaching, tho, is the deep and lasting friendships and sisterhood that come as we visit each other in our homes monthly.
Thank you, Sarah and Lynne, for a really nice afternoon. I love you.
3 comments:
Thanks for your kind words. Now come up here and have a hot Magleby's roll with me. I'm using all my willpower to stay out of the kitchen. I want one soooo bad.
That looks like such fun. Isn't VT wonderful!
Can I be a part of this visiting teaching group?
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