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Tuesday was also a great day, the elders who made lunch after district meeting also made me a cake which was very sweet of them. :) President also joined us for district meeting that day, which is always awesome because he is a great man. Wednesday we had exchanges with the zusters in Alkmaar, it was kind of a crazy day but all is well that ends well!
On Friday we had a Valentine's Day activity in the branch, it was a cake baking competition! Everyone could bring a cake and then everyone would vote on the best one. We had this great idea to decorate ours to look like a Book of Mormon. However, there were many misadventures involved; first, the box of cake mix called for slagroom (I think that's the equivalent of heavy cream) which we didn't have, so we ended up substituting a bit of coffie milk that we had mixed with regular milk. Then, it was the sort of cake where you have marbled vanilla and choclate, but it really didn't want to marble... it just kind of looked like chocolate with a slight vanilla streak. But it was just getting covered with frosting anyway, so we were still hopeful! However, something went wrong with the frosting we made and it refused to thicken up no matter how much powdered sugar we put in it, so it was way to runny. Then we put the blue food coloring in, and of course it's the kind of food coloring that doesn't get any darker than baby blue no matter how much of the stuff you stir in there. Hardly Book of Mormon blue worthy. :P So, we changed our plans last minute and used the yellow fondant we had bought (to write out "Het Boek van Mormon") and instead made a sun and wrote "Voor Jezus!" ("for Jesus!"), with reference to the Dutch version of the Sunbeam primary song, in which the chorus says "Voor Jezus, voor Jezus!" in the part where in English we sing "A sunbeam, a sunbeam!" It was pretty cheesy, but we had a cake. :) However, we then had to transport it to the church, which we did by sticking it in a bag and tying it to the back of my bike and praying it would survive (literally, I prayed for it). It made it pretty ok, but the already too-thin frosting kind of got all over the place and the extra food coloring we had dumped into it kind of stained the yellow fondant a bit green. So in the end, we had the most ghetto missionary cake ever, but it provided many, many laughs for the evening. :)
As a quick thought to leave with you, even though the cake made us laugh, I know that it is a very noble and wonderful cause to be "for Jesus." Wearing His name upon our hearts and striving always to do as He would do, we come closer to Him and show our devotion to Him - which is only right, because He has always been and always will be there for us. He gave His life for us, and not only in the moments He was on the cross - He committed His life to the service of His Father and of us even from the beginning. I know that He had done everything for us. Let us do everything we can for Him!
-Zuster Jensen
Thanks again for the birthday wishes! I was able to read the rest of them today. I did indeed have a wonderful birthday, we went bowling with some members and I had two different cakes made for me. :) One of them they even put trick candles on the cake, which is the first time I've seen those in real life! 21 candles is already a lot to stick on a pastry, but add to that the fact that they don't like to be blown out... let's just say 10 minutes after I first tried to blow one out I was very out of breath but feeling quite triumphant. :)
Tuesday was also a great day, the elders who made lunch after district meeting also made me a cake which was very sweet of them. :) President also joined us for district meeting that day, which is always awesome because he is a great man. Wednesday we had exchanges with the zusters in Alkmaar, it was kind of a crazy day but all is well that ends well!
On Friday we had a Valentine's Day activity in the branch, it was a cake baking competition! Everyone could bring a cake and then everyone would vote on the best one. We had this great idea to decorate ours to look like a Book of Mormon. However, there were many misadventures involved; first, the box of cake mix called for slagroom (I think that's the equivalent of heavy cream) which we didn't have, so we ended up substituting a bit of coffie milk that we had mixed with regular milk. Then, it was the sort of cake where you have marbled vanilla and choclate, but it really didn't want to marble... it just kind of looked like chocolate with a slight vanilla streak. But it was just getting covered with frosting anyway, so we were still hopeful! However, something went wrong with the frosting we made and it refused to thicken up no matter how much powdered sugar we put in it, so it was way to runny. Then we put the blue food coloring in, and of course it's the kind of food coloring that doesn't get any darker than baby blue no matter how much of the stuff you stir in there. Hardly Book of Mormon blue worthy. :P So, we changed our plans last minute and used the yellow fondant we had bought (to write out "Het Boek van Mormon") and instead made a sun and wrote "Voor Jezus!" ("for Jesus!"), with reference to the Dutch version of the Sunbeam primary song, in which the chorus says "Voor Jezus, voor Jezus!" in the part where in English we sing "A sunbeam, a sunbeam!" It was pretty cheesy, but we had a cake. :) However, we then had to transport it to the church, which we did by sticking it in a bag and tying it to the back of my bike and praying it would survive (literally, I prayed for it). It made it pretty ok, but the already too-thin frosting kind of got all over the place and the extra food coloring we had dumped into it kind of stained the yellow fondant a bit green. So in the end, we had the most ghetto missionary cake ever, but it provided many, many laughs for the evening. :)
As a quick thought to leave with you, even though the cake made us laugh, I know that it is a very noble and wonderful cause to be "for Jesus." Wearing His name upon our hearts and striving always to do as He would do, we come closer to Him and show our devotion to Him - which is only right, because He has always been and always will be there for us. He gave His life for us, and not only in the moments He was on the cross - He committed His life to the service of His Father and of us even from the beginning. I know that He had done everything for us. Let us do everything we can for Him!
-Zuster Jensen
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