Our Branch

Ravensburg Branch has a southern boundary on the Switzerland border and runs about 25 miles north to south and 40 miles east to west. This is roughly the same as slightly larger than Salt Lake County, e.g. Lehi to Centerville and Tooele to Park City. The city of Ravensburg has about 50000 people and is  roughly in the center of the branch. Friedrichshafen on the south, on Lake Konstanz (Bodensee) has about 60000 people, Wangen im Allgäu on the east end has about 30000 people and there are hundreds of towns and little tiny villages throughout. The map here is not really readable, but shows where most of the members live (blue pointers).

Here is picture of our church building. The church is on the top floor of an office building. It is really quite a nice, modern building. Can you tell that the address is 5?

This is the front door, then the hallway towards the chapel, with small rooms on the sides.

This is the chapel.

There is an interesting elevator in the center of the building.

Our branch is supported mainly by the diligent efforts of about 10 people who hold most of the callings. There is no Aaronic Priesthood program and only one young woman and one in Primary. The branch does have the largest family history center in the whole St. Gallen Stake. It is open every Thursday and the microfilm readers and usually constantly busy when it is open. People order films from Salt Lake and do their searching here.

We have two elders here besides the two of us. They are very diligent and are enjoyable to work with. We have gone out with them once doing door-to-door contacting, though that is not generally our assignment. We attend a number of their teaching appointments and that is a great experience.