Alright, so, do you remember how Ukrainians eat everything with ketchup and that ketchup isn't really ketchup it's just weird sauces? Well, I had a fun experience with that this week!
We were staying in another city for a couple of days for zone training, and the apartment we were in, the Elders there didn't have much food other than pasta and chicken. One of the Elders has some kind of medical issue, so he can basically only eat boiled chicken. So, we made boiled chicken and pasta. It was really nasty because it was super bland.
To solve this problem, Elder Montgomery, an Elder who came to the mission at the same time I did, offered me the ketchups from his fridge, to which my only response was, "Don't even ask, just bring it!"
So, Elder Montgomery handed me some sauce and said it was some kind of steak sauce. We couldn't read the packet because it was in Ukrainian, and the alphabet is different, and the words are weird. Anyway, I opened it up, and it smelled a lot like mustard. Like, very mustardy. It was super strong. I thought it smelled like the kind of mustard you might put on beef wellington, but I didn't think too much about it. It was pretty thick, but I poured a bunch out onto the pasta and took a huge bite.
I reallized once it touched my toungue that it was, in fact, exactly the kind of mustard one would make beef wellington with. Normally, only a little of this would be used, because it's basically pure mustard and it burns like all get out. I had just put a very large amount in my mouth. It was at that point that I realized I had only a few seconds left to live.
It was pretty hilarious just how spicy it was, it totally cleared my sinuses! It was also delicious, and highly recommended!
Basically, what I learned from this is that from now on I'm just going to put random ketchups on pasta and hope for similar discoveries, because that was super fun!
By the way, the pasta sauce I made? Delicious.
Not much else happened this week that was noteworthy, except for now we know without a doubt that a lot of the branch members resent us and also think that we're useless. So that's fun, because we're just going to keep working 14 hours every day to help them with their problems and strengthen their community and love for one another! I didn't come to the other side of the planet just to let them get in the way of me helping them. Nope, not happening! I had to learn Russian so I could even communicate with them, I'm not giving up just because they aren't willing to work with us!
It's going to be an interesting time here in Kherson!
P.S. if you know any recipes that would be really cheap and that can be made without a lot of equipment, please send them! They will be much appreciated! Also, send them with metric conversions (grams, liters, etc)
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