Teaching and visiting

Over the past week or so we have been involved quite a bit with visiting members and working with the missionaries. The Elders here had a referral for a young woman who lives in Wangen, about 20 miles east of here (Our street is named Wangener Strasse because it leads from Ravensburg to the city of Wangen.) This young lady (about 22 years old) and her family are from Nigerian and have a strong Christian background. She has a friend who lives in Italy who joined the church recently. Sister B and I have been with the Elders now for three teaching appointment visits with her. She speaks and understands English better than German so we have been teaching her in English. She has been very receptive of the Boook of Mormon and the things we have taught. Last night, Sister B and I helped teach part of the lesson. It has been a joy to do this. The Spirit of the Lord has been strong in our meetings. We hope her parents and sister start to take an interest. We expect to see her at church next Sunday.

Yesterday, Sister B and I also had a nice visit with a member of the ward. She is a long-time member.  I hesitate to say that she is "older" because many people might say we are "older" but anyway, we had a wonderful visit with her. We had trouble finding her place. The GPS stopped us short of her place and we called her. She got such a laugh out of our predicament. Both of us trying to describe where were, my German not adequate over the phone and her not quite understanding where we were. When we finally found her place, she could not stop laughing. It was so fun.

We also had a district meeting in Dornbirn, Austria that morning. It was a nice spiritual and uplifting experience. The Elders are amazing in their spiritual maturity and insights. They also had a great time playing ping-pong afterwards while I took advantage of a piano to play.

We just wanted you all know that we do more than spend our time traveling around and taking pictures.

Well, here are a few more pictures anyway.

The first two show the tunnel we travel through going from Austria to Germany. It runs about 6-7 kilometers (about 4 miles). They are still building the second tunnel so this one has only one lane each way for now in the one tunnel. Traffic still runs pretty smoothly. It sure beats going through the busy roads and traffic of the city of Bregenz and the narrow strip between Bodensee (Lake Constance) and the mountain.

The next two show Markt Strasse (Market Street). It is the same street where they had the parade yesterday. We think of Mark very time we see the signs.

Lastly, we finally found a hat shop. I left my hat home and Sister B encouraged me to get a new one here. I hate posing for pictures. She also wanted to get a picture of the women's hats in the store for a friend back home who loves hats.