This week it was a birthday party for Sister Kagel and a goodbye party for Casmin Giles, our BYU intern, who returned home yesterday.
Again this year the area senior missionaries picked four families in our ward to do the "12 Days of Christmas" for this week. Elaine had the job of making assignments, collecting presents and delivering to all the families. She is a great organizer! We weren't in our Frankfurt Ward last week and everyone in primary today could not stop telling her how much she was missed as the music leader. She will be hard to replace.
This weekend's outing was an overnighter with 3 other couples to the Christmas Market in Bad Wimpfen and Heidelburg about 2 hours south of Frankfurt.
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| The funnest part of the trip was dinner in the gasthaus in Bad Wimpfen where we spent the night, swaying, clapping, yodeling and singing with the dinner crowd who came to hear a real accordian, guitar oompa band play and sing for about three hours. We saw a bit of German culture that could not be replicated, but made us vow to meet up at Snowbird for Octoberfest in 2015 when everyone is home. We are here with Dan and Ann Eyre (auditors), Steve and Lorraine Swift(attorney), and Clyda and Mike Harrison (real estate) |
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| Young street artists at the Christmas market |
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| Nativity scene that is part of the city's Christmas decorations |
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| World's largest candle powered Christmas pyramid |
Our missionary activity this week was to go with one of our YSA kids, Raymond Kistos from the Republic of the Congo to visit a less active YSA and invite him to the First Presidency Christmas devotional. Bienvenu was a French speaker and so he and Raymond could converse en Francais. We let him know he was loved and missed and offered to pick him up, but did not see success today.
So ... if it's not too late, Benjamin saw one of those "candle-powered-pyramid" things on a baby Einstein movie and said, "Can I have one of those?" I told him maybe you could find one ;)
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