I picked the girls (all of the youth are girls except one and he was involved in family stuff this weekend) up at the church at 4:00 on Friday afternoon and we headed to Wal Mart. Prior to our meeting the girls had picked 3 recipes a piece from Mrs. Claus' Cookbook and sent them to me via email so I could compile the ingredients list.
I divided the ingredients and printed them onto index cards: Dairy, Baking Supplies, Grocery and Other. Each girl was given an index card, a grocery cart and sent on her way. Of course before the chore was over, they were all huddled together picking and choosing their items carefully.
After the shopping adventure, we headed to an oceanfront beach house owned by one of our members. The girls took turns making and baking their goodies until about 1 am Saturday morning. They had a great time and did a terrific job. We had gingerbread men, Rice Krispy Christmas Wreaths, Peanut Butter Kisses, Fudge that didn't turn out too well, 7 layer cookies, etc.
We packaged everything into containers with an assortment of cookies and candies and headed to bed for a few hours. We got up, cleaned up our rooms and headed out. Now, you may wonder out to where. Our mission was to bake goodies for the shut ins. We made home visits and nursing home visits. The girls hate that sort of thing, until they get there.
One of our shut-ins lost her daughter to Cancer last week. Needless to say, this was an emotional time for the lady and the girls. We didn't quite get through delivering on Saturday so we began again on Sunday afternoon. On Sunday our lone guy joined us. We had a grand time and the young people realized it truly is better to give than to receive as was noted by the smiles and the tears from those who received.
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