Hello everyone

Hello everyone, yes I have been a bit uninformative over the last couple of months but life in our huge city is moving on. Usually it is quiet for the church during the month of August, everyone trying to squeeze the last bit of summer. Many people enjoy having a dacha, which is a small little summer house on their own private ground where they can grow a garden. The dacha season is a part of Muscovite culture, and it does not take long living in the city to understand that a trip to the dacha can cover a multitude of frustration. Many grow tomatoes and cucumbers so come fall the canning season begins where cucumbers becomes солёный огурцы salty cucumbers, much like dill pickles just a bit more salty, and boy are they good to have in a soup. Today after I taught on the book of Philippians as Paul spoke about being concerned with others, Luba and Lyda came up and asked if they could come and prepare food for me and the guys that live with me. (That others centered message always works) And boy do they know how to fix vittles (пиша) Olivie salad (I call it Russian potato salad on steroids) it includes believe it or not potatoes, peas, those home canned salty cucumbers, chicken if you please, or smoked sausage, enough mayo to instigate a parcel hardening of the arteries, and a safe pinch of salt. They also simultaneously were making she soup, no they don’t have a he soup. She soup (Щи суп) Щ-s и-e с s- у-o п-p you be speaking Russian in no time. But she soup is made of cabbage, tomatoes, green herbs, fat, and is it great with a big spoon of sour cream (сметана) They prepared us enough food to last the average family about 5 days, but we will probably decimate it in 2-3 days.