Saturday, April 19, 2014

Tettnang, District meeting, etc.

Today we visited a member in Leutkirch for a while and then tried to find some contacts from the missionaries' lists in Tettnang, another city, south of Ravensburg. On Thursday, we had a special district meeting with President and Sister Miles with us. Also that day, Sister B had a watercolor lesson. In the evening (Thursday) I needed to be in charge of our Genealogy Center because our specialist (my second counselor) was away in Sweden helping them set up their official LDS website there. In the evening, we had our Branch Council meeting.

District meeting with the president: (Back l ro r) Pres. Miles, Elder Stuart, Elder Aardema, Elder Nielson, Elder George (Front l to r) Elder B, Sister B, Elder Thompson and Elder Weston.

We helped in cleaning the church later in the day on Thursday. This is our wonderful "Staubsauger" - literally a dust sucker. Fortunately we only have 7 rooms to vacuum. This room is our Primary (the whole thing, the nursery is next door, also this small).

This is a view of one of the valleys near us. We love the view of this valley.

... and off in the distance are the Allgäu alps.

passing an old farmhouse on the road to Tettnang.

I have wanted to get a picture of the common building materials they use here in practically every building. Where we use concrete blocks or poured slabs, they use these orange blocks. They are heavy, though not completely solid (some air space in the block). They last for centuries.


OK, I finally got a good shot of this sign. MacDonalds in the town of Bürgermoos. It made me think of MacDonalds serving Moose burgers.

1 comment:

  1. When I first read the sign at the end, I thought it said, "Booger moos" (like "moo" what a cow says...). Funny! Loved your scenic pic and the other shots. Such a beautiful place!

    However, my favorite picture was the sharp one of all those happy missionaries and my fabulous looking parents in the front row! Just today, a freshly returned missionary said something like, "You'll never regret following the Lord or doing what He wants you to do," and that is what your picture made me think of...a group of people experiencing the joy of doing the will of God.

    Thanks for sharing! Keep the posts and pictures coming! :)

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