June Inspection Tour

This past week we did another of our assigned missionary apartment inspection tours. Our Mission Zone boundaries are changing so we are not sure how they will be in the future. Also, in this tour, we included another apartment, this one in Richterswil, Switzerland. Also, we are getting a lot of new missionaries so the needs are changing. One apartment now has four elders where they used to have only two. Their refrigerator is small and they could not keep all their food fresh so we bought a new refrigerator for them (another small one). Here is how we packed it into the back of our little Opel Corsa hatchback (looking back from the front seat into the back) It is kind of hard to see, but it is tilted in order to fit in.

Their apartment is in Konstanz (Constance, Germany). Here is a statue along the road near the arm of Lake Constace (Bodensee).

The road between Winterthur and Wetzikon (all in Switzerland, now), is a major road, but like a lot of them here in Europe, they often go between farm buildings so they are kind of narrow and winding. Apparently, the buildings and farmlands are valued much higher than transportation and traffic flow.

We visited the apartment in Richterswil, which has a tremendous view of Lake Zurich.

As you can tell, I stitched three pictures together so you could get the idea of the view. This is looking out the window in their sleeping area.

The next pictures are of the mountains and buildings in the little villages between that part of Switzerland and the mountains going over towards Liechtenstein. This is the area between the bottom of Lake Zurich and Wattwil, Ebnat and then the pass to the east from there along highway 16. The mountains are really quite rugged.

This next one is the view of the valley which includes Liechtenstein. We were coming down the mountain area on one side and can see Liechtenstein across the valley.

 This one is the mountain near the area of Dornbirn, Austria

This is one of the road signs. Wattwil is the direction we came from. The other names looked kind of interesting.

One other interesting thing about our trip was that it was clear with high clouds and in the seventies until we went over the mountains where it rained a lot and was in the lower fifties.

The next entry includes some more about our own area.