A FALL WALK

Here's a less-than-flattering photo of the senior missionaries having our after temple dinner at a warehouse that had been converted to a medevial castle/bowling alley.  Elder Craven is way in the back and is chuckling that he alone is aware a picture is about to be snapped.

 Ha, ha.  On Saturday we took our BYU intern couple the Wisners to Rudisheim a quaint little town about 45 minutes from Frankfurt.  This time our GPS took us a different route and we had to board a ferry to cross the Rhein over to the town.  Pretty interesting when out of the blue the GPS chimes in with "turn right and board ferry".

Rich and Nat may remember riding in a gondola up the mountain above Rudeshiem.  We hiked up this hill through the grapevines on a beautiful fall Saturday afternoon.

This is statue "Germania was dedicated about 1883 to celebrate creation of the Republic of Germany.  We had a our picnic here with the Wisners as it is at the top of the hill above the vineyards.                               

The Rhein River valley below with Rudesheim off to the left.

A fall walk in the leaves in the forest above Rudisheim.  When the wind blew, we would be pelted with hundreds of acorns and a blizzard of falling leaves.

We (us and the Kagels)  helped Dinis and Sylvie Adriano unpack their moving boxes on their arrival in Frankfurt.  They are from Portugal and Dinis will start work for the Church as Assistant Public Affairs Director Nov 1.

The highlight of our week was helping the missionaries teach Sasan, a religious refugee from Iran caught distributing copies of the Bible to friends.  He loves Jesus so much, loves the Bible - sleeps with it.  He came to church for the first time today then came to our house for dinner with the missionaries. His dad had to pay $10,000 to get a fake passport to get Sasan safely out of Iran.  Sasan is reading the small Persian Book of Mormon - the parts that have been translated.  His English is minimal so communication is hard but he believes Joseph Smith really saw God and Jesus and he feels good when he reads the Book of Mormon.  All the missionaries had investigators at church today and the German ward has a baptism scheduled for next week.