WORKING HARD IN FRANKFURT

We had quarterly zone conference in Friedrichsdorf on Wednesday and captured the latest images of our faithful senior missionary force at the chapel.  Elaine was  the expert photographer and had us in and out in less than 5 minutes.

We were not there, but had our senior missionary spies that got to the Mission Presidents' seminar in Paris keep an eye out for the McConkies, seen here standing with a fellow mission president couple seated left and our friends the Smiths (Infield Rep) seated right.

 Last Saturday the Kagels got us tickets to the International Auto Show held in Frankfurt biannually.  We were there with every single male in the western hemisphere to get a look at the cool new cars and coming soon to a showroom near you, as well as a few wild prototypes.

 This turned out to be my favorite - a retro Triumph Bonneville for only about 9,000€.  I think I missed my chance to own one about 40 years ago.

 We got to the show when it opened at 9:00am but were exhausted by 2pm.  When we left we were absolutely the only ones headed away at such an early hour as the crowds just continued to grow.

 We said good bye to our friends the Livingstones from Provo this week.  These departures leave us feeling a little abandoned for a time, but we plan to get together again as they don't live far and are people you just want to hang around to see if some of them will rub off on you a little.

Elaine visited the area translation office this week where they are busily preparing for upcoming General Conference weekend.  So who gets to be President Monson's voice in Poland, Albania, Italy, Czech Republic... this time around?