Easter

Easter is more than bunnies and eggs.  Here it is a big weekend and everyone decorates. The stores have been selling Easter decor for weeks.  Our little branch will have a regular meeting focusing on the Atonement and Resurrection of Christ and the other big churches will have their yearly most attended mass.

selling watches with easter bunnies?

This fountain near the town hall is decorated with real eggs.

It makes me wonder who has the time to blow all the eggs and color them.

  Our branch relief society, all 5 of us, had a get together to make Easter decorations so I had to put mine on our door. 

Sister Grunbichler and Valantin, Sister Heemann, Sister Ernst, me, Sister Merkel

We found out yesterday that our outside doorbell doesn't work.  Sister Ernst walked over for Home Evening and rang the bell and waited for 1/2 hour before walking back home and calling us.  It has been REALLY cold here too.  We are all looking forward to Spring.  One lady in a store told us that here in Hof they have 9 months of winter and then 3 months of cold weather.

We are making lots of visits to inactive members encouraging them to come back.  We visited with a man today who said his daughter was not at all interested in the church anymore but as we talked to the missionaries we found out she has been trying to make an appointment with them but they will meet at our home.  We did have a nice talk with the dad who was an American from Boston who never went back after his military service over here.  So the work goes on.