miniatures

A sister here in the branch (sister Steinvoorte) loves miniatures and when we were invited to dinner the other night she showed me her latest project. Her son in serving a mission in Greece and so she made this cute house for him for when he returns next month. First the Elders apartment (most of their apartments are not this tidy) and then of the two of them knocking at the door of a typical home in Greece. The Elders even have a cell phone, bottle of water and Books of Mormon in their bags. The little girl in the yard is reading Harry Potter, and the woman in the kitchen is holding a huge knife. The story goes..... The two Elders met this woman in the town square and asked if they could come to her home and made an appointment. The next day when the appointed hour came they knocked on her door only to have the son sent them away. When he went into the kitchen to tell his mother who was at the door and that he had told them to scram, she yelled.. Oh No!!.. and ran after the Elders down the street holding her huge knife. The Elders thought she was after them to kill them so they ran even faster and got away. Later the truth came out and the Elders were able to come back and visit.

I wish you could see all the little details. Even the cut up vegetables in her salad bowl are unbelievable. The scale is 24/1 and I don't know where she gets the patience. Certainly not something I could do. She also does some fantastic counted cross stitch. She spends a lot of time in the waiting rooms at the doctors offices and hospital because her husband has some major health problems. He had cancer in one of his kidneys and had the kidney removed, then the cancer returned to the cavity where the kidney used to be and also to the lungs. He is on some mega mega strong medication and apparently the cancer is gone but he is totally wiped out with the side effects. It has been a miracle he could hang in there this long, they had thought he would not see his son return from his mission. They feel very blessed that things are going as well as they are.