Sorry I didn't write on Monday. P-day was changed to Tuesday this week.
The cake is good! But, why is it covered in popcorn? I figured
you had made the cake and were intending to give me popcorn as well, but
you told Dad to pack it in the box and he just decided to put them both
in the same bag---hahaha.
Well, I'd better send you those pictures and email
Catriel. Thanks for writing me! Glad to hear all is well at home. Say hi
to all the relatives for me!
I
received your packages! The little Christmas tree and popcorn cake came first.
The popcorn thing was hilarious. I had no idea what was going through your head--- hahaha.
[Note
from Shari: My friend Lynn told me how to safely mail a cake to
someone. It has to be Angel food cake. You frost it however you like
and then put it in a turkey roasting bag. Then you pop basic popcorn in
oil on the stove. When it's cool, you pour it all over the cake in
the bag and then tie it off. The oil in the popcorn keeps the cake from
drying out and the popcorn itself cushions the cake.]
I like the Christmas tree! It makes the apartment more
festive.
I
had a great Thanksgiving. We ate with the Bartons and Brother Barton's
mother. Small crowd, but it was fun. The Bartons are a young couple
and it was their first Thanksgiving as heads of the household---cool to
be a part of.
This morning my whole district and I got a free
private tour of NASA. Super cool. A member here designs space suits for
NASA and was nice enough to give us a private tour for free.
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| This is a massive pool they use to train astronauts. |
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Astronaut fitting into his suit for training
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Speaking of pictures, I'm using a different card
now; I don't know how many more photos the first one will hold now, so I
put in a new one before we went to NASA. I'll have to send you the
pictures of me with the tree and stuff next week.
Glad you were able to meet the Browns! [Shari
again: Ben-Daniel's mission leader in the ward in which he's working
visited our area and offered to connect with us and take a package back
to him.] They're super
nice. I thought that'd be a nice treat for you and Dad when he
suggested visiting you while he was up there.
I've wanted to see Ephraim's Rescue! The producer of
that movie gave a talk at the MTC; he showed a few clips from the movie
too.
Your story about the pies is hilarious! I had key-lime pie for the first time yesterday; I now love Key-Lime pie.
Anyway, I've been doing well. It got
warm again down here, so it feels like summer again. I'm enjoying it!
There's a 60 year old neighbor
friend of ours who is like the king of the stray cats in our apartment complex. Every time we go over to say hi there's four or five cats hanging around his front
door. It's awesome; that's going to be me when I'm his age!
I love you Mom! :)
Elder Ben-Daniel Duffin
