Lindsey arrived in Hong Kong on December 11 after spending ten weeks in the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, and completing and intensive language course in Cantonese. Here she is pictured with her mission president and his wife. She is very happy to be a missionary in Hong Kong and is anxious to get more familiar with the area, the language, and especially the people. Christmas was lonely without her, but we got to talk to her for 50 minutes on the phone, and she sounded wonderful.
I considered myself to be a decent cook and baker. However, candy making had been unchartered territory until I recently cracked the code of a favorite—chewy Texas Pecan Pralines. This culinary epiphany came only days before I left my home sweet home in Austin, Texas, to return to CU Boulder after an epic hiatus to wrap up my bachelor’s degree in journalism. When I was a little girl, I remember tasting heavenly, creamy homemade pralines, bursting with pecans, handcrafted with love by my mom. She only whipped them up a few times, but I just couldn’t get the memory of those buttery, sugary treats out of my head. They were that good. I asked her if she still had the recipe, but I knew it would be hopeless since my mom wasn’t one for keeping track of her down-home style cooking. I married my college sweetheart, a guy with the same first name as me, and began teaching myself to cook. Becoming “Kelly Times Two” was amazing, and I had ...
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