September 13

WHOA!  We need a bigger institute building.  Remember I talked to Scott about not recruiting for the Pearl of Great Price class.  Well he was good not to all week and yet we had 38 students in class tonight.  We also had 24 in Mission Prep up again from last week.

All this creates a wonderful problem for me.  I can't fix unlimited snacks and treats; time and money preclude it.  Today I figured if I made 22 cream buns (more on this later) which was three more than we needed last week, I would be OK.  Nope two short which makes me feel sad and guilty at the same time.  Last night when we got home, I made two banana cakes (9X13 pans) from a recipe Sister Dakunimata (nda coon ee mata) had given me.  Surely 30 pieces of cake would be enough.  How do you get 38 pieces out of just two cakes without them looking minuscule?  Our students are so darling about it.  One girl came looking for a piece after we had distributed all the banana cake.  When I apologized she just laughed and said that really she did not need more cake on her hips.  I have no idea how to fix this wonderful problem.  I only have two 9X13 pans.  I hate baking cookies because they are so labor intensive and here they are really expensive to make.  I wish someone would come up with a solution.

The other problem is that we have only 34 chairs.  Tonight we had students sitting on the coffee table from the lounge area, and two sitting on the floor.  Scott had no room to move in the front of the class.
I hate having them sit on the floor, and resist moving the table out.  How does one write notes in one's scriptures, and take notes in the student manual without a writing surface.  Oh for 10 more two person tables (we would put three at each) which would work well in our space, but which cost the earth here. $189F

OK to the cream buns.  I believe in one of my earlier posts I mentioned that we had gone to a bakery that does relatively good fancy baked goods, one of which is a cream bun.  I thought they were huge cream puffs when I first looked at them, but at closer inspection they are regular bread buns with what looks like whipped cream in them.  We bought one which Scott liked and I thought was not so good because the cream? filling was gritty.  Well they are cheap and the kids seem to like them.  I got wondering if I could make them cheaper than the bakery price, so I got on line for a recipe.  Sure enough some Aussie had a blog where she was bemoaning the loss of the wonderful cream buns from home.  Some one shared a recipe with the lady from Australia.  It looked easy.  We bought some regular buns (I made the mistake of asking for rolls at the bakery which confused the sales person. Say buns, LaNae, buns) and went home to make cream buns.  Well the filling is just sugar water and butter.  Really.  Not to brag too much, mine were much better than the ones at the bakery and cost just a bit more than half the bakery price.  They will be the snack after Mission Prep again I am sure.