Food, Glorious Food

 Sept. 29, 2022

French fries in our gyro

This cost us $7 for the souvlaki and gyro

I think I get asked about the food more than anything else.  We have been here almost one month.  We have been rather shy about going places to eat and usually wait until someone invites us or we have someone to eat with.  Today was District Council with our awesome young Elders and Sisters.  We have come to appreciate and love them in a very short time. 

They recite the missionary purpose and Sec. 4 of D&C in Greek.  Most from memory.  How smart is that?  One Elder from Switzerland led us in a great discussion about the importance of journals and what we write in them.  I inserted my experience in the Church History Library with transcribing pioneer journals.  There were a lot of entries about the weather and how far they traveled in a day but few expressed any thoughts or feelings even after one experienced her sisters being trampled on by a stampede.  We wrote in our journals why we were serving a mission, what we have learned so far, and how we felt  about ourselves. It was a great and uplifting activity.  If we write it, we will remember it.   

                                                           We stopped by the bakery. 

                These have ham and cheese in them.  They looked really big before we cut into them. 

Market on Tuesdays

I loved going to market.  I didn't have to read any labels and I recognized what everything was. Kim brought money and he would pay each vendor as I picked out what I wanted.  You could pick up the fruit or veggie and they would throw you a bag to put the produce in.  Then you would put it near the scale and they would weigh it when your turn came.  It was just fun. 

We had a branch social.  This is how they cooked the meat.  I wish I had taken a picture of all the different kinds of salads, etc.  It was so yummy.  The sister missionaries had a game that I remember my kids doing in school: Fruit salad.  The younger kids had fun doing it because the grown ups played it too.  I brought brownies that I made with olive oil.  They turned out great and were all gone quickly. 

Chocolate is expensive and chocolate chips are non existent.  We bought their biggest bag of M&Ms and it was not big.  Maybe that is why Greeks are so much smaller than many in our country. Do you think?