Sunday, for Relief Society, the lesson is from a conference talk by Elder Soares called, In Awe of Jesus and His Gospel.
One thing I am in awe of is the universe, our sun, and our earth and how it all works to become a place where we exist.
There is an object lesson I love and I will be giving it in Relief society. Therefore, I get to try it out on you as my captive audience.
Ingredients for cookies are spread around the room. A package of flour on the piano, a package of sugar on the floor, vanilla on the table, and butter in a chair. (Yup, that’s all it takes to make out of this world cookies.)
Then the questions begin… is there a force on this earth, that you know of and Not man, that can combine these ingredients together into an edible delicious cookie?
How about in the solar system. Is there a force, again not man, that could combine and cook these ingredients and make them into a delicious edible cookie and cook it just right to a golden brown?
How about in the universe. Is there a force that can mix all these ingredients, getting rid of the packaging, and measuring it just right, then cook it to the right temperature, then frost it and add marvelous garnishes that make it a joy to eat and delicious to the taste?
Etc. Etc. Etc.
My answer: there has to be a being with a loving hand that can take materials, mix them together, form the majestic mountains, calm the raging seas and give us land that can enhance our experience here on earth. As well as create the creatures, and Man to eat these delicious cookies.
I’ll probably have to reword it a little, but you get the idea.
I am in awe of God’s creations.
Then all the sisters get to partake of an Out of this World Cookie as my treat for listening to me go on and on about how in awe I am of Jesus Christ our Redeemer and Savior. (You too can make an out of this world cookie and partake of it with the following recipe.)
Sugar cookies
1/3 Cup Sugar
1 Stick unsalted Butter
1 Cup Flour
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla
Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Cream sugar and Butter together. Mix in the vanilla. Add the flour and mix well.
Place parchment paper on top of a cookie sheet. Dust your hands with flour and roll the dough into balls. Place on parchment paper.
Dust the bottom of a glass and press the balls flat to about 1/4 inch thick.
Test cook one cookie first by baking one for 15 min in the oven at 325.
If it spreads out too thin while baking then add small amounts of flour to the dough.
Cook the rest of the cookies for aprox 15 min or until golden brown on edges.
Frost with black frosting and sprinkle with candies: stars, candy balls and candy sprinkles.
If you are ambitious, color some sugar with a drop of food coloring, making red, yellow and blue sugar. Then sprinkle minute amounts to color parts of the black frosting then add the candies.
Mmm…OUT of this WORLD!
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