Last week Josh caught the cold that been going around and then this week I got the flu part that was going around. So needless to say it has been a long 2 weeks, but we will survive. Sadly though, we did have a brother in the neighboring hall die this past weekend. He was in our hall before it split so he was known by many. He was 49 and still has a child in high school, but thankfully the congregations have been so supportive of his family. It is so encouraging to see the friends rally for this sad occasion. The brother gave a very encouraging talk and it also gave a good witness as there were many present that were not witnesses.
In September our hall will be very empty since many are going or have already gone on vacation. Josh has like 3 service meeting parts in September because of it, which is a good thing he now gets more practice. The problem here is there aren’t enough brothers in some of the halls (including ours); so many times one brother can upwards of 3 assignments on a meeting. For example, one night josh was supposed to read for the congregation bible study, do stage and also have the announcements as a 10 min. part. In our hall we have about 75 publishers, we have about 6 elders and about 4 servants, and our meeting attendance on Sundays is about 110-120. But in the islands the brothers have it harder. Erica (my old roomie here) and Antonio her husband live in the Marshall Islands. The island they live on is only a mile long and not very wide (you can see the ocean on both sides), but there is 16,000 people living on it. In their congregation Antonio and one other brother are the only 2 elders now – they have one other brother that is leaving soon to be the c.o. for the outer islands. Erica said they have about 40 publishers but on Sundays the attendance is about 100. On that island they are almost done building a kingdom hall with a missionary home above it. This building project has been a great witness, and Erica says they expect attendance to be even greater once they are in the new kingdom hall. She and Antonio serve as special pioneers and will get to live in the missionary home once it is complete which should be about October.
Since I have not been able to put much on this blog lately, I have been thinking of ideas for it when there isn’t much going on. One idea is sharing recipes (which i know I already kind have been doing). I think maybe I will do a recipe of the month for now and then maybe when I have more time make it once a week. If anyone has any good recipes for us to try please email them-always looking for something new to try. I will only post ones that we have tried and liked.
So here goes for month of august (and this was one Josh found and made for us the other night) our recipe is:
Tilapia with ginger marinated cucumbers
· ½ cup apple cider vinegar
· ¼ cup + 1 teaspoon packed brown sugar
· 2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
· ½ teaspoon salt
· 2 medium cucumbers, sliced
· 1 (6oz.) container plain yogurt
· 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh mint
· Strips of lemon peel and lemon wedges (optional)
· Cracked peppercorns
1. Preheat broiler. In med. Bowl stir together vinegar, ¼ cup brown sugar, ginger and salt until sugar dissolves. Remove ¼ cup of the mixture. Add the cucumbers and half the mint to the remaining mixture and set aside.
2. Spray broiler pan with non-stick spray, add tilapia. Brush ¼ cup vinegar mixture over the fish. Broil 4 to6 minutes or until fish flakes easily.
3. In another bowl mix yogurt, remaining mint and 1 teaspoon brown sugar together.
4. Place cucumbers on plates, top with cooked fish and yogurt mixture. Garnish with lemon peel, wedges and peppercorns.
o.k. so we had to make some modifications to this as we couldn’t find any mint, so we used dried dill and only had a fresh lime in the house, but I have to say I really liked it that way. And any time you guys try one of our recipes but you do it your way, let us know how it is, we are always game for edits or versions too.
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