The "Glutens"

My companion is gluten intolerant. Sometimes people forget about that, or they don't understand what that entails. Which is fine, unless they're feeding us dinner.

Recently we ate dinner with the sweetest elderly couple. They missed the memo about the gluten-free thing. So they made us lasagna. Which is totally alright with me, I love lasagna.

For those of you who don't know, lasagna is chock-full of gluten.

(Fudge is Gluten-free)

Sister Snyder didn't want to offend. She knew that this dinner was prepared especially for us, so she ate it. Though, after the second piece, she was sore afraid for the well being of her intestine. (She tried to refuse the second piece, but the sweet sister was persitent, and Sister Snyder was polite.) We finished our lasagna, and the kind woman went to get us dessert. I saw her from the kitchen scooping ice cream and heaved a sigh of relief.

She came out with the ice cream, topped with two chewy, chocolate-chip cookies. More gluten.

Sister Snyder, not able to handle more gluten, passed me her cookie under the table as non-chalantly as possible.


This being only a few moments after she received the cookie, the woman we were eating with naturally assumed that she was ravenous for cookies because it was no longer on top of her ice cream.

She said, "Do you want another cookie?"

At this point, we were both supressing laughter.

I was still working on eating her cookie that I was holding under the table, while trying to make it look like I was only consuming one.

We couldn't look at each other without busting up. Luckily, no one noticed our giggles.

Appartently we take a lot of pictures in our car.

The moral of the story is: If you give a [gluten-intolerant] sister missionary a cookie... She'll pass it under the table to her companion.

But really. We are so grateful for all of the amazing members who do so much for us here. I'm always a little surprised that they are so willing to feed perfect strangers dinner. They are such an example to me, and I can tell that they really understand what's important in this life.

"Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor ruse doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Matthew 6:20-21)