ANOTHER WEEK AND THE MORMON MOMENT FLY BY?

Is the Mormon Moment over in Europe? The phones were pretty quiet on Wednesday, time will tell and the Lord is in charge.

Enjoyed a nice rainy, windy week here this week.  The video newsroom filming in the UK went well, with many youth and adults participating in answering questions about the gospel and LDS living and bearing personal testimony from their experience.  These video clips will go on the UK's newsroom website for the benefit of members and journalists.  Our director would now like to do the same thing for Italy, Germany, France, Spain and Portugal.  We've been assigned this project to oversee and spent part of the week, reworking the questions and ideas for responses to be given to the participants. Then we will send them off to translation and start working with the National Public Affairs Directors in each country to line up members to interview on camera.  We also started uploading images onto country websites for the webmasters to use with future articles.

Elaine was called today as assistant Relief Society secretary.  We're preparing a musical number with other missionaries for the Church employee Christmas party and organizing a Twelve Days of Christmas service project for some families in our Ward.

Adding to our list of Tender Mercies this week, Toni Fetzer emailed and is having his dad search their records to see if we are related.  I mailed him a T-shirt with the Fetzer Woodwork logo and Joan is checking out the records he scanned and emailed.  Thanks, Joan. 

Two missionary couples joined us for dinner and games here Friday evening.  They raved about how big our kitchen is so we're not anxious for our city apartment to be completed.  As it hasn't been started yet we needn't worry. We enjoyed an English session in the temple (which by the way is closer than the Salt Lake Temple at home) Saturday morning and a baptism in our Ward of a sharp Spanish young adult who has been studying with the missionaries for a year.  The room was full to over flowing with supportive members.

Some more things you may not see back home:

Trees don't go on sale until the 8th of December!

Huge piles of sugar beets in all the fields.

Roadside electric fences.  Pray your kids can read.

No big slabs of cement anywhere.  These small  pavers are easy to remove for repairs.