One of the young moms asked Olivia to teach her how to make a chocolate (aka birthday) cake to bake in a drum oven. The mom had been wanting to learn for a long time, but she was afraid to ask me because I am a “big woman.” Yesterday afternoon, Olivia took down ingredients and a recipe for an eggless chocolate cake, and a wide range of ladies practiced stirring and measuring and mixing. After evening prayer, Olivia returned to show them how to make chocolate icing, too. And then they gobbled it all up.
When we come to live in Marulaon, we have to bring everything we need with us: food, toiletries, school supplies, etc. We are constantly monitoring levels of everything from toilet paper to beans to how much propane is left in the cylinder. When Aaron started the kettle boiling for coffee this morning, the burner lit just fine. But after a few minutes, the flame sputtered out. So he tiptoed down the stairs and underneath the house to switch gas cylinders, then quietly relit the refrigerator (which also runs on propane) and got the kettle boiling again on the stove top when he came back up to the house. We are so grateful that the gas ran out when we were awake and could quickly catch the need to switch to a full cylinder. Our little freezer holds some precious ground beef that we will continue to use during the rest of our village stay.
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