Nuts to You!!!

We had a Scary Adventure this week!!!  I always make treats for our Institute classes and I happen to LOVE Nuts!!!  There are a couple of our students that don't "care" for them and one is allergic to them. (so sad)  Now I make my Congo Bars and Brownies in my special pans, but only put Nuts in half of them.  It has worked pretty nice and of course, it helps me because I don't like brownies or congo bars without them!  WELL, one of our boys (Danny) couldn't make it to Institute on Tuesday night, but he made a Special Effort to come on Wednesday night with our senior sisters.  We were so Excited to see him!!!  I had my congo bars separated and gave him an entire container Without Nuts.  I passed the bars out to the sisters and Danny remarked, "Sister Lovell are you sure there aren't any nuts in these?"  I told him I was sure and double checked.  His tongue had started to tingle and then his throat started to tighten.  He was scared.  One of the sisters offered him a ride home and he wasn't going to accept, then he said YES and they shot out of there.  He has pills at home, so Tina took him home.  Anyway we were visiting with the other sisters and cleaning up the room when Tina got back.  As we were walking downstairs to the foyer, one of our Laurels had just received a text from Danny that he was on his way to Emergency!!!  We were Shocked!!!  I felt like crying!!!  Tina offered to drive us to Dartford so we could see him.  We were Grateful to her for that special service.

 

He was Proud because they had to get a Larger cuff to take his blood pressure!

 

Elder Lovell was Very Happy to see that Danny was going to be all right!

 

 

Danny's mother Terri was very happy as well.  We found out the next day that Danny wasn't released until 1am in the morning.  We didn't get home until after 11pm.  We are Grateful for modern medicine.  I will be Doubly careful when preparing food.  I think there was a trace on the knife that I used to cut the bars.  I'm buying a separate pan and using a separate knife! 

 

 

I've been a little behind on our blog.  The next part is a Pancake Upside Down Dinner we had for our YSA's.  We LOVE these kids and thoroughly enjoy having them in our flat!!!

 

 

We didn't know that the kids over here love pancakes so much!  They were surprised at how we mix sweet with "savory"!  Now I personally can't imagine a pancake without an egg on top with maple syrup and a piece of bacon to wash it down. 

 

 

I think Asher ate about a dozen sausages. 

 

 

I ate my annual hotcake and egg.  Elder Lovell & I were demonstrating the "proper" way to eat pancakes and eggs.  ha ha ha

 

 

 

Chloe just put maple syrup on Danny's pancake and he wasn't happy.  He then proceeded to get a new pancake, poked holes in it with a fork, squoze a fresh lemon all over it and then covered it with sugar and ate it!  That's a new way to eat a pancake.  He said it was delicious.

 

 

Jack was Very Adventurous because he was especially concerned about combining "sweet" with "savory," but he tried it and finished it and we Think he Liked it.

 

 

We're assuming that this means Flavia Liked it!   Sorry Chloe, I missed you.  Chloe was in the group picture at the beginning.  It was a fun evening.  Flavia planned a nice fireside for us after and it was wonderful!  We Love having our YSA's over to eat and have a fireside and a visit.  They are a Great group of kids!!! 

 

Bye for now.

 

The Perfect "P" Day!

We had the Perfect "P" Day on Thursday, November 28, 2013--Thanksgiving!  We got up and took the train to Charing Cross and met the Johnsons from our five days in the MTC in Provo and spent the day and evening in LONDON!!!  We got there around lunch time and went to lunch in the "Crypt."  It's really a crypt!  It is underneath the church St Martin's-in-the-Fields.  It's a burial ground and we were walking on flat headstones in the floor.  It looked like it was "full."  Anyway we heard that they donate their proceeds to the homeless, so we thought it would be an appropriate place to eat on Thanksgiving.  At 1pm they had a 30 minute musical celebration of Christ the King.  It was very lovely!!!

 

We were able to hear the organ as well--kind of exciting.

 

 

Our friends Elder and Sister Johnson from Boise, ID.

 

 

  I thought this was an interesting window in this old church.  It was built in 1724--it's older than America!  There has been a church on this site since the Middle Ages.  It's also in Trafalgar Square.

 

 

This was in Covent Gardens.  That's a fun place to go.  They have all kinds of markets there and street performers that are always fun.  (My hair and London weather are not a great combination!)

 

 

This is a "live" Rudolph!

 

 

We went to a small London Movie Museum and we saw this and....

 

This!

 

 

This was Piccadilly Circus and the big bubble in the background was a giant snow globe.

 

 

Here's that English chap again.  I think he likes the name Byron. 

(If you ever get to London, they make the Best hamburgers!!!)

I forgot to mention that we had just eaten our Thanksgiving Dinner at a Mexican restaurant 

in Leicester Square.

It was good, but they still need help over here with the Mexican. 

 

 

And for the Finally--Byron took me to the London Coliseum to see Mozart's

"The Magic Flute"

You are right--we went to the Opera for Thanksgiving!!!

 

 

This was a wonderful Opera House.  It holds 2,000 people and it was full!  We had Great seats.  This was our first time to a "professional" opera and it was wonderful! The cast was amazing.  They had powerful voices.  This was a new Adventure!

 

We had a Great Day and Evening.  Thankfully we were close to the train station because we were on the Last train home to Gravesend from London!  We got there with just 10 minutes to spare.  Actually the train ride home was also an adventure.  The train was FULL when we left Charing Cross.  We were all cramped and we were tired.  We were sitting in a group area I looked up and someone was sitting beside us.  He wanted to talk, so we visited all the way to Dartford when he realized he was on the Wrong train.  It was midnight and he hopped off the train & waved good by to us.  It was pretty funny.  All the way home Byron kept asking him about his stop because we had never seen it.  He assured us that he was ok until he heard Dartford.  ha ha ha  It was quite funny. 

 

We've been here since August 10 and this was our first Big Adventure, and it was thoroughly enjoying!!!

 

Bye for now.