Fat Cooks

Thursday (1 Dec.), we invited Sister Blum (Sandy, Utah), Sister Mudzimba (Zimbabwe), Elder Huwiler (Switizerland), and Elder Kalonji (Kenya) to dinner. After dinner we had the Elder show us how to make Fat Cook (Magwinya) a traditional South African dessert like scones. The batter is a little thicker than pancake batter. You use your hand to scoop up the batter and your thumb to push it into the hot grease. The Elders were very good at making nice round fat cooks. The Sisters had not made them before and their inexperience resulted in weird shapes and we gave them names like crab, impala, lizard, etc. We had a lot of fun. After we finished we took some to the men building the house next door. They were surprised and very pleased at the treat.

Saturday (3 Dec.), we went for a hike with the Young Single Adult Ward in Gaborone. We gathered at 5:30 am to beat the heat. We met at a mall parking lot and there were half a dozen baboons in a corner of the parking lot ranging in size from the big male and female to the babies. It took about forty minutes to hike to the top of Kgale Hill, the highest hill around Gaborone. We could see our house from there as it was only a couple of km away. Janet made pumpkin bread (actually butternut bread because we could not find pumpkin) and banana bread for everyone at the start of the hike.

Sunday, (4 Dec.) we rode with the Kimballs to Molepolole a village forty minutes away from Gaborone to attend the branch services there. It was very interesting to attend the branch. Though all the members are first generation members of the church they have a good understanding of the gospel and try very hard to fulfill their callings. At the start of Fast and Testimony meeting these two boys came to sit with Elder Rands. One asked to sit next to him and the other asked to sit on his lap. They were very good the whole meeting.