Cooking Moldovan Style

Today was a great day!!!

     Started the day at the Freedom Home cooking lunch with the cook and some of the women.  What a blessing!  I am learning how to cook Moldovan traditional food in order to be able to teach applicable lessons on nutrition in the Spring. The goal is teach the women healthy eating habits and also ways to cook the food they like so much in a healthy manner.   I am also grateful to have this time to spend with the ladies and get to know Maria the cook better.  Even though she speaks no English and I speak very little Russian, she was able to teach me how to make beef cutlets. Yeah, never made a cutlet before, but they are pretty tasty. She also taught me all the Russian words for the ingredients. So in addition to food lessons, I also had a Russian lesson. God is good! Maria is very kind and already has a good relationship with many of the woman even though she has only been there a short time.  She is truly an answer to prayer.
      Tonight we had some friends over to our apartment to eat dinner and watch a movie.  Elena, Elena, Elyssa, Jessie, and I had a lot of fun spending time together. It was nice to be able to have friends over to our house and bless them. Sweet fellowship!!!