August 3, 2009

Bonjour à tous!
how is everyone doing? so this last week has been pretty full of cool things. Starting on monday...idk if i told you that we went to Yverdon and we spent the day at the beach! it was fun, we rode bikes around and played catch.. we also took some time to catch frogs and it was a blast. way cool.
Other cooll things that we did this last week was that on Saturday we went down to the lake on one of the like "boardwalks", if thats the right word, and we drew the Plan of salvation with sidewalk chalk. it was fun and it worked pretty well. Considering that it was the Swiss national holiday, we talked to quite a few people that were nice enough. Probably wasnt as effective as it could have been but it was a fun experience.
Also on saturday, it being the Swiss national holiday, they lit off fireworks. We had asked our Mission president if it would be ok to stay out later and watch them with members and he said it was ok so we went to The Psota families house. They live in an apartment building up on the hill so we got to see like everything it was great. They shot the fireworks off in the lake off barges and there were SOO many boats in the lake too. just a bunch of little lights everywhere on the lake it was cool. before the fireworks started we played some games and also the Family Psota sang for us, in swiss german, the national anthem of switzerland i guess. it was cool. they were both raised swiss german so thats why they speak it. ummm also we could see like all the other little towns accross the lake shooting off fireworks too it was a lot of fun.
also this week we decided to make these cookies and give them to a bunch of members and so we did... they are oreo cookies i guess. but they are way good!
let me see if i can remember the recipe....
mix:
250 grams of butter melted
4 tablespoons of Cocoa
then add into bowl with:
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp of vanilla
Mix and add
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
bake at 350 degrees fareinheit (as cookies) for 8-10 minutes.
cream filling:
200 g cream cheese
2 tsp vanilla
4 tblsp butter
3-4 cups powdered sugar
then you just like put the cream in between the cookies and voila oreos... ish its way good though. just thought id share.
anyways when we got to church sunday everyone that we gave them to like made such a HUGE deal about it it was incredible....people like threatened us to not be able to come over without the recipe and stuff like that it was funny... but they had a good enough reason i think haha! they were good cookies!
well other than that the most exciting thing is that transfers are this week. we just got out calls like an hour ago and i'm leaving neuchatel... :(! i'm going to be going to Annecy, which, if i remember right, it the most beautiful city in the mission according to President Peterson... maybe i'm mistaken but i think thats it... oh well... it should be fun.. i'll tell you about elder Walker(my next companion) next week!
Love you! have a great week
Elder Laws