Happy Thanksgiving

 We were given an assignment by the mission president to drive to Bacău /bahk-o/ to have Thanksgiving with a dozen missionaries serving in the area. Shortly before the upcoming Thursday, we were asked to deliver some supplies to Iaşi /yahsh/ so we borrowed the mission van and drove the 6 hours up near Moldova. We stayed in a nice hotel, but didn't see the city because we arrived at night and left before sunrise the next morning.

I was glad that the hotel had a long table for assembling 12 treat boxes for the missionaries. This year I was able to make peanut brittle, gingerbread cookies, caramels, Mexican wedding cookies, English toffee, and peanut butter fudge. 

It's one of my favorite parts of the holidays. And although there are some treats I can't make due to lack of ingredients (butterscotch chips), I am learning how to do new things like pandolce genovese.

We picked up 2 companionships from Iaşi and drove to Bacău, which was about 2 hours. They had a district meeting at 10am at the rented space and then we walked to the restaurant I had booked for the lunch.

The Lake House is situated in a park, surrounded by a moat, and decorated for Christmas. They were ready for the 14 of us and were very attentive. Most ordered delicious pizza and hamburgers.

They were excited to receive treats afterwards. Many had long bus rides home, so I'm sure they were happily snacking.