A Busy Week

I know, that is a pretty poor blog title. Sometimes I have a hard time thinking of a good title for these reports of various activities. We often are out and about quite a bit and snap some pictures along the way. I like to share those pictures and make some general comments.

This past week was busy with our usual  activities of District Meeting, Institute and being at the church for our open hours. I also had the opportunity to so some microfilm research for one of our Sisters. On Thursday through Saturday, we were in Switzerland for a Senior Missionary Conference (Two separate blogs for that). The last item mentioned here is the bread-making visit we had with one of our members yesterday (details below).

You have to kind of twist your head around to get the right perspective here, but this is the grass lawn around the church in Dornbirn where we had district meeting a week ago. Here in Europe, mainly in the Spring, the lawn grass is full of small flowers. When they first cut the grass (much later) the flowers are usually finished blooming and get cut with the grass. I have not ever seen a dandelion in the grass around here.

On our way home from Dornbirn, Austria, we go through a tunnel in the mountain. The tunnel goes for about 5 miles. This fortress/church is on the hill above where the tunnel runs.

One day while at the church for our open-house hours, I took this picture of Ravensburg from the window of our meeting rooms.

On a walk on the hill behind our home there is a number of walkways. Quite often in Germany, there are little crucifix monuments along the way. Here is a small one up there between some trees.

Sister Trautmann showed us how to make bread with Dinkel flour. Dinkel is a grain similar to wheat. I heard that it is an older form of wheat and that it is healthier for us to eat. In America it is called spelt. Here Elder Kinghorn is kneading it. We are getting some wonderful recipes from Sister Trautmann.