Visitors are very welcome, so if any of you are planning to come to out to Salt Lake City before 27 April 2017, please do let me know and we'll see if we can get together!
My friend and her daughter came to see me today and we had a nice time chatting, and we had lunch at the Nauvoo Cafe in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. After that we went out to the University of Utah campus. We had a little while to enjoy the Red Butte Gardens, and then the two of them were off for a tour of campus.
I went back to the apartment to pick up one of my fellow International Zone missionaries. We went to Welfare Square, and then she showed me where an additional Deseret Industries Thrift Store was located. I did find a few items, and she got what she came for. Our checkout person had an American Sign Language book at her counter, and when I remarked about it, she said she has from her childhood enjoyed learning languages. Turns out she practices Hindu religion, but has enjoyed some interactions with fellow LDS workers. We enjoyed talking with her.
Whether it was the very hot weather, [95 degrees], or the turkey pot pie I had at the Nauvoo Cafe I was extremely thirsty all afternoon. I came home and enjoyed a very large slice of watermelon. I also looked up something I had been wondering about: are watermelon and cucumber related. I have been using the left-over pickle juice from my large jar of bread and butter pickles I bought over a month ago to marinate watermelon rind. I was hoping to find that cukes and watermelon are related so that I could count the rind as vegetable. Well, I found they are related--but technically, even cucumbers are fruit, not vegetable! I really enjoy the marinated rind, so I will continue to make that until the juice runs out--which may take a while!
After my watermelon supper I listened to a Sheri Dew BYU devotional from 2003: "You were Born to Lead, You Were Born for Glory". I posted that on Facebook, as I felt it was a very encouraging talk. I do recommend it. I think you can access it at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ossenGOmo
All this week the days are going to be very hot, in the 90s, but the mornings will be mostly in the mid-60s. What a difference from Missouri!
I had a new experience this evening--I actually had to cut my nails, as they were interfering with using my iPad! I guess when one is consistent, instead of hit-or-miss about taking calcium it really makes a difference!
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