12-10-2007, 07:26 PM | #21 |
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I was spoiled. Had dinner appointments most nights. Served in Northern California.
On the flip side I'd never realized how many crappy different versions of lasagna out there existed.
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12-10-2007, 07:28 PM | #22 |
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I feel somewhat bad for stateside missionaries. How much spaghetti/lasagna can one person eat before they start telling members to go to hell?
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However, there were many occasions where a member family would use missionaries over for dinner night as their experimental recipe zone. Oft times with disastrous results. Rule #1 when it comes to feeding missionaries: Never experiment. Go with the tried and true.
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You speak truth. Much of my mission was spent in areas where the people were pretty poor and we didn't get a lot of dinner appointments. But my last area was in the mission office and that was a very prosperous ward (as most wards with mission homes are). We got fed every night and it got really old. Not just the food, but the scheduling. It got to be a pain to have to work your schedule around where you were eating that night.
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I also tell them that they dont have to eat a single dang thing if they dont want. Finally, I talk almost entirely about sports, BYU, SC, and what they are going to do when they get home. If the sisters come over, I usually leave once I am done eating and go watch TV in the other room.
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He never did join the church. I wonder if it's because he figured Mormons are freeloaders or something? |
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Do you take them solo or does the whole family go? I may take it a step further and simply have something delivered to their apartment or hand them some cash on Sunday. They dont even need to come over to our house at all.
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For Christmas I like to give the missionaries in my ward a gift card to a Chipotle/Panera type place. It's a little bit healthier than fast food and they can enjoy a relaxing meal without the stress of entertaining members. |
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They called an hour earlier and said they were going to be late - a perfect opportunity for me to tell them that, unfortunately, "late" would not work tonight. So I dropped a couple of 1/2 pound burritos on their doorstep on my way over the SteelBlues house for the game. Perfect outcome for all of us - they got Burrito Bandido and I got to see the game. |
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