June 4, 2012 Marcia's Cooking Class and Jay's Sightseeing

On June 4, 2012, Sister Bodryashova gave us Temple Missionary Sisters a cooking class.  She is a wonderful cook and also a wonderful seamstress.  Her and her husband come and stay in Patron Housing one week each month and serve in the Temple each day.   While they are here she cooks up some really good Ukrainian food and gives us all some.

Here she is rolling our dough to make an apple dessert.

Sister Vasil'ev and Sister Brodryashova crimping the edges of the dough.  It was like apple pie with apples, cinnamon and sugar on the inside, but instead of pie crust they use a sweet yeast dough.

Cutting fancy palm leaf cutouts to decorate the top of the dessert.

Ready to go into the oven!

While our dessert was baking we made Vareniki (Ukrainian dumplings).  We filled some with mashed potatoes, some with a cottage cheese-egg-herb mixture, and some with strawberries.  You boil them in water and they are really tasty.

Our finished dessert.  It tasted as good as it looks!

Cooking the Vareniki.  Sister Sherwood and Sister Hancock looking on.

Sister Bodryashova patiently waiting.

She takes this cooking seriously.

After the Vareniki we made meat pies with the rest of the dough.  They too were really good.

Frying the meat pies. Sisters Sherwood, Callister and Ose looking on.

Sister Callister and Sister Bodryashova.

      

Statue of Prince Vladimir, the Grand Prince of Kiev and ancient Rus'.  In 988 A.D. Vladimir banished the god Perun and brought Christianity to Kievan Rus'.  He led the entire city down to the Dnieper River to be baptized.

Brothers Vasil'ev and Callister at the foot of the statue.  It was here on September 12, 1991 that Elder Packer dedicated the land of Ukraine for missionary service.

The two pictures above are looking from the statue at the Dneiper River and Kiev.

Another shot of Brother's Vasil'ev and Callister.

In front of St. Michaels Cathedral.

 The evening of June 4, we had our Temple Missionary potluck dinner.

We are certainly not going hungry!

To Marcia's right you see Brother and Sister Ivanenko and to their right is Sister Bodryashova and Brother Chistakov.  Ivanenko's served in the Presidency for 18 months.  We love these great Ukrainian Saints.