LDStein?

  Last week was Elaine's highly acclaimed Primary program and the children sang their hearts out for her.  We are so impressed with how good these children are at being reverent and trying their best even after long hours at church.  The generations just keep getting better.  Elaine was pleased to be done with the program as she was starting to have nightmares about it - but all turned out well.

We received this beautiful Thanksgiving Turkey from the Wilson's in the mail this week and it was just in time for Primary Song time today.  The children got to write what they were thankful for on a feather and pick the song they wanted to sing. Thanks Wilsons for sharing what you are thankful for and for blessing us.  We are thankful for you!


Besides our day job, the most fun thing we got to do this week was have some wonderful people over to dinner today.  Sister Ezard on the left is a new senior missionary in the area presidency office.  She is German but speaks perfect English as she lived in England and worked for an American company for years.  A remarkable, faithful, talented Latter-day Saint, like all the senior missionaries here. In the middle are Pamela Lemon and her finance Mimo.  Pamela has been very sick and in the hospital for a couple of months.  We are celebrating her coming out party.  Mimo came to  Germany about 24 years ago from Morocco and is Muslim.  Elaine and I home teach Pamela and we were so glad they were able to come to dinner with us today.      

This week our Saturday outing was to a quaint little German village named  Idstein.  The name seemed a little odd because when written on the signs or as part of store names it looked (at least to me) like "LDStein".  And then what do you know, we found this Angel Moroni weather vane and knew this was fertile ground for sharing our message.

                                                                                                                                                                                         

My mind starting thinking, how could we recreate some of this fun building art work in Midway.  Maybe we could carve up some of the timber posts on the front covered walkway.  Wouldn't that be fun, but are we brave enough?

 The village tour brochure explains that the unique shape of this "crooked house" was caused by a"building deficiency".  And you thought they did it on purpose.  Funny though, it probably raised the tourist value of this street 10 fold.

We could tell the town took great pride in the city.  So old and so well maintained, with beautiful colors and decor.  Can you believe the flowers in the window boxes on November 23?

Well, isn't that a coincidence?  We seem to be wearing the very same clothes we have had on for the past 25 weekend outings in a row.

This is the Witch's Tower which the brochure says (and only says) has nothing to do with the infamous witch trials of the 1700s.  The tower was first built circa 1200.

We were totally taken back by the rich treasure of medieval art on the walls and ceiling of this cathedral which was nondescript white stucco on the outside.

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