Well, this week Rule #1 was in full effect when I made the mistake of running out of flour. Usually if you see something you buy five of them. You may never see it again. This time I hadn't noticed that I was getting low on flour. How can you be a mission president's wife and not make cookies?
Well, it took five people going to 4 stores (one of them 3 times) and 6 days to get white wheat flour.
1. Brent and I started out on Wednesday to find white wheat flour in the store which we usually find pretty well stocked. NO white wheat flour this time.
2. We headed out the next day to another store, but when we got to our parking lot our car was gone. But that's another story. It's often borrowed by office staff. Stranded! No flour today.
3. Our office couple stopped on their way to work at a store near their house to get flour for us, but without any French and when what they usually buy wasn't there, they bought soy flour by mistake.(at $17 a bag.)
4. So, it was back to the store to return the soy flour. There was no white wheat flour there.
5. Today (Monday) we sent one of our office workers to look for flour.
6. Happy Day. Aimé returned with flour from yet another store!
The question is, how much do we want cookies?
*Brent has missed most of the "flour fun" since this weekend he's been making the 6-hour-each- way-drive through the African bush with a car full of African church leaders, on a curvy, mountain road to Matadi, a city on the border of Angola. He's changing a branch presidency, doing branch training and working wit the four elders who live in Matadi. So, the flour issue is nothing compared to his job.
Oh yes, Rule #1 certainly is running at full steam this week!
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