Hermanas Turn "Cookie Monsters"

Saturday, March 22, 2014

We had the opportunity to spend some quality time with Hermana Berrios. She has been dealing with some health issues so Nurse Pugmire put her on “no work” schedule for one week. Usually she stays with Hermana Pugmire while her companion goes out with another missionary for the day.  The Pugmires were headed out today, so she spent the day with us.Mike loved the opportunity to get her feedback in Spanish on his presentacion for tomorrow.  She was quite helpful.  

I started my sourdough bread and then made some chocolate chip cookie dough.  We had a charla at 3 pm, so Mike arranged for Charo Lopez and her friend to come and visit with Hermana Berrios while we left. I had them bake the cookies while we were gone. We wanted Charo to feel the great spirit that sister missionaries carry with them. 

We visited with Yvonna and Jorge and their 3 or 4 year old son. They live a few doors from the Lopez familia. Yvonna is Charo’s sister. It was a great visit. I could tell that she had worked to make her little humble home presentable for us. Jorge is very intelligent and grasped gospel principles quickly. He reminds me a lot of our Skyler R. We challenged them to find a time when we could take them to visit the temple. I don’t think it will take much to move them along in their understanding of gospel principles. 

When we arrived back at our apartment the cookies were all baked.  All the girls had a good time together. They wanted the recipe, so Hermana Berrios translated it for them.  I packed up some cookies for both of them to take home.  We had a dilemma with getting the girls home. It ended up that Hermana Berrios and I went with them in a taxi. Mike couldn’t go with them in a taxi by himself.  I didn’t want to come home in a taxi by myself and besides, Mike couldn’t stay by himself with Hermana Berrios.  So all 4 of us females took the small taxi.  

Later on in the evening, Hermana Zegarra came with her temporary companion to pick up Hermana Berrios.  I had no dinner left and really nothing to fix quickly, but they were happy with the cookies and milk. They must have had 10 each!  Out of that huge batch of cookies, Mike and I had 6 left for us. We didn’t need all those cookies anyways!  It just would have meant more walking.