Sunday Jo invited the Paskets to dinner. They were entertaining some friends from the States, the Andersons and the Bishop they worked with in the inner city. The Andersons and the Paskets were missionaries in the inner city ward. The Andersons brought their daughter,Carlie, who teaches Hebrew at BYU. The Andersons spoke in Sacrament meeting on faith. Brother Anderson sang, "O, My Father", accompanied beautifully by his wife (with no music). The young Bishop (who is now in the stake presidency ) Bulent Bulut, also spoke. He was born and raised in Turkey not far from where Jo and S. live. He went to the States to help with the Olympic games in Salt Lake and joined the Church there. His is a very interesting story.

Anyway, Jo and I spent Saturday preparing a turkey dinner. I had to toast the bread for the stuffing. We looked up the name of sage in the Turkish dictionary..adacayi. We had to hunt a little to find it in the store. It didn't come powdered...it came as leaves. I put them in the blender to make them usable in the dressing. Jo had gotten some sausage from the consulate that we used as well. The people here don't use the top of celery. They use the root. We found some stocks and used that so we were set. I made rolls. We did a relish plate with dip from yogurt...no sour cream here either. They have the best potatoes I have ever eaten. I don't know what variety they are but they are so sweet. They are sort of yellow instead of white. Jo made a pumpkin dessert. I was nervous about baking a turkey without a bag, but I survived and the turkey turned out well.

It was a very nice meal and we had very nice company.