Catching Up With an Old Friend
A long time ago, I took up cooking as a hobby, gradually acquiring recipes and technical expertise, and I began sharing meals with the missionaries and with friends. The joy of this kind of social entertainment came into sharp and clear focus rather gradually, and received a big boost in October of 1977, whilst I was a young and single missionary in Switzerland. I had just spent 17 months in the Germany Frankfurt mission, the one to which I was originally called. However, circumstances played out such that I was transferred, with nine other Frankfurt elders, to the Switzerland Zürich mission. Less than two weeks in the Land of the Swiss, my companion and I were invited for dinner to the home of Werner and Nelly Riesen. At the time, he was the young Elders Quorum president in the Winterthur ward. He and Nelly had just welcomed their first child, Claudia, into their home barely two months previously. Usually, if you are invited to a Fondue dinner in a Sw...