Now for the rest of the blog entry. We have had some good experiences so I will summarize a few of them first.
On Sunday, we invited one of the couples of the branch to lunch with us at our place. She is a member (our Primary president) and her husband is not a member but comes all the time with (or without) her. The stake auditor was here from Switzerland as well so we invited him to join us. The sister is Russian by birth and the auditor speaks many languages so there was quite a number of languages spoken at the dinner table. It was fun.
Last night (while we are talking about it) we invited another couple to eat dinner with us - the Relief Society president and her husband (both long-time members). It was very enjoyable.
On Tuesday, we had our Zone Training meeting in Singen, Germany. The picture above is of a peak where there is a castle ruin. It is along the road near Singen. We drove and took the elders with us. As usual, it was a very inspiring meeting and I picked up a number of good points I am going to be presenting to our members in the next few weeks. The main point is the importance of pure and mighty prayer. I will probably make a separate entry in this blog about my thoughts.
After returning home from Singen, Germany, I dropped off the elders and Sister B and immediately picked up my two counselors, both waiting at our place, and we drove to St. Gallen, Switzerland for a meeting with the stake presidency. We gave a report of the previous year and received counsel from them. Again, it was stressed the power of prayer in this work. It was definitely in concert with what I heard at our training meeting earlier in the day.
We had a nice meeting with one of our families on Monday evening where we gave them a copy of the Book of Mormon stories for children in German. Here is a picture of the boys with their ship made out of Lego® blocks. The older boy was trying to make it like the Titanic. It was an amazing construction.
On Thursday (yesterday) we met with the Trautmanns (my first counselor and his wife) and we helped her with their genealogy. Sister B did most of the work. I tried to solve some of the technical problems, with little success, but it eventually worked. She was able to prepare a number of her close family names for temple work. Sister B says it was one of the highlights of her time on our mission. After that, I took a number of pictures of the area around their home. It was irresistible. The skies were so clear and we could see across the Bodensee (Lake Constance) to the Swiss alps.
We saw these hot air balloons on the way to the Trautmanns.
I thought it interesting to see this old house on the farm with all the satellite dishes on the side of the house.
There are many of these speed signs along the road. It shows you your speed and then either a smileyface or a frown depending on your speed. Also very often are the photocop blitzers. So far, we have only been blitzed once. That one only cost us about $18.
As we were filling up at the station, I saw this little car thing that I sometimes see on the road (enlarged below). They drive right along with the traffic, but quite slowly. And.. as a side note, it costs us about the equivalent of $8.00 per gallon here.
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