In Ravensburg

We are serving in the Ravensburg (Rah-fens-boorg) branch of the St. Gallen (Switzerland) Stake. There are two elders here, Elder Hyatt from Highland, UT, and Elder Pope from Missouri. They are great elders. The branch is small. In church today there were about 18-20 in attendance. The Branch President is from a city in Switzerland. The southern boundary of the branch is the Bodensee (Lake Konstanz). We are in the Dornbirn district, so we need to travel into Austria to meet with the district leader. The top half of Liechtenstein is in our district so we have 4 countries in our district.

Ravensburg is a beautiful, small and old city, with many of the old original centuries-old buildings still intact. I hope to post a few pictures in the next post. We do not have internet service in our apartment yet, so we are using the branch president's office computer to send this. The people in the branch are wonderful. Both of us had the opportunity today to introduce ourselves and bear testimonies (Sister B even did most of it in German - the people were impressed - "you have been studying only for 3 weeks?")

We are well. It is wet and we have had some snow. We are driving a nice Opel. Fortunately the GPS (Navi) tells us where to go and when to avoid speeding tickets. It is hard to go fast anyway, but the speed limits change every few blocks.

Well, that is all for now. We love you all!

Our address is:

Elder and Sister Buchanan

Kirche Jesu Christi HLT

Wangener Str. 88/90

88212 Ravensburg

Germany