Fri, May 13th, 2022: Recife Brazil Temple, James a town boy, two pkgs, Cherry chip cake falls so I make another, Prsthd Comm talk by James, Bishop says the best!

 

Recife, Brazil

101st operating temple

Dedicated: 15 Dec 2000

By: Gordon B. Hinckley

Jesus Christ, Second Comforter

John 14:21-23

21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?

23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Book of Mormon

Mosiah 29:1-15

"Come Follow Me"

Numbers 22-24 I can follow God's will, even if others try to persuade me not to. 

AprGenCon

"Do What Mattereth Most"

Rebecca L. Craven

Second Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ involves more than just hoping or believing. It calls for effort, movement, and commitment. It requires that we do something, being "doers of the word, and not hearers only."

Up at five this morning. I had scriptures and prayer with James before he left to go to town. He's becoming what I like to call a "town boy." He just can't seem to stay away. He would not like me saying this because he definitely considers himself a "country boy."

On the way home from town James picked up the mail. I had two packages, one with some 5x7 notebooks I ordered and the other was the vanilla bean paste I ordered for my cake baking. I used my credit card rewards points to buy the notebooks and the vanilla bean paste. 

For lunch today I made James potstickers and snow peas. I had my leftover orange chicken and noodles from Panda. 

This afternoon I made a homemade cherry chip cake. It's for the ward party at the Wallace's tomorrow night. I used a SugarandSparrow recipe instead of Courtney's because it seemed like more of a recipe I would like. The hardest thing about this cake is cutting up 32 maraschino cherries. I got cherry juice all over my hands and the thought occurred to me, what if I can't get this cherry juice off before I go to work at the temple tomorrow. 

After baking, one layer kind of fell apart when I tried to take it out of the pan. This is an indication to me that it was not done and I should have kept it in the oven a little longer. 

James left for the Priesthood Commemoration fireside at the Wallace's this evening with Chuck around 6. While he was gone I decided to make another cake.  Making another cake meant cutting up 32 more of those cherries, which I did, and the juice washed off of my hands quite well.

These cake layers looked so much better than the others. Another thing I did was to use the whole egg instead of just egg whites like the original recipe said. I think the eggs add some needed structure to the batter.

James said there were very few boys at the fireside. The Crane boys were there and Colter Hunsaker. He used his talk to ask the boys questions. He said that the oldest Crane boy, Deven, answered all of the questions. After the fireside was over Bishop Hunsaker thanked him for his talk. He felt pretty good when he got home although he was disappointed more of the boys from the ward weren't there.

We went to bed somewhere between nine and ten because tomorrow we get up early to go to the temple to work.