more teaching, shopping and Ikea

We headed off Wednesday morning to go to the large mall and find gifts for family. William is truly amazing how he navigates the town so easily in the squall we often face. He shifts gears, defrosts the windshield, makes those crazy roundabouts (like our intersections) and drives in heavy rain and wind. We have safely arrived every time. If I were here by myself, I would walk everywhere and not get as much accomplished.
Lunch today was back to the Ikea store for something new and cheap eats. I choose what they have as their daily special. It is a kind of breaded vegetable patty served with couscous and snow peas- very good. William, Jimmie and Linda all had chicken and eggplant. But the big thing was to go back for ice cream! They serve an ice cream cone for 70 kronur (50 cents?) that is amazing. It tastes like the best ice cream mixed with cool whip- full of cream and probably very fattening. You can have it vanilla or dipped in chocolate. YUMMY! William and I bought 3 and shared them. I was being teased by Jimmie and Linda but I don´t care- it was good! I told William I now will think of this as Icecreamland instead of Iceland. He said I can be Queen Frostine. That is why I love him.
Linda gave her lesson on the woman´s role in the church. There is still much they do not understand. The scriptures she gave and read for submission puzzled them and they thought they could never speak. Linda answered and all is well. She perfectly covered how a woman cannot take the lead in worship. Darlene said she had been asked to lead singing by the men in times past. Thankfully she knew that was not allowed and refused. Linda also taught what the women can do and needs to be doing. I then started my lesson on teaching children in Bible classes. I stressed again how important it is that the children are coming to worship and it would be very good to have Bible classes for them. We talked about how you can make learning fun and how to teach different ages. Before coming here, I weeded through some material on my shelf and brought examples of Bible class take-home pages and crafts. Linda and I told them they could make up songs for teaching in Icelandic and the children would learn better. I believe we made a lot of progress and we pray they will do what they have now been taught.
Love to all my family and friends-Katrece