Hof, Germany

Our assignment is to Hof, the town furthest south in our mission.  We are replacing a couple named Worli, from Idaho Falls.  They had been in Chemnitz, the same apartment we were in, until about 3 months ago when the President moved them because the institute there was no longer viable.  Elder Worli was born in Munich and still has a brother living there.  They went there this weekend to visit. Next Sunday is their last week here and then they get to take the train journey to Berlin and fly home.  Since we overlap for 10 days they have the car.  We are staying in a hotel until they vacate the apartment.  We walked around the town a bit on Saturday and went to their small Weinachts Markt.  The town seems very nice and we are anxious to get to know it.  We bought a map and some warmer clothes.

Our main assignment will be to help with the small branch which meets in this hotel.  They have about 20 active members.  Sunday was their Primary program, all three children!  The program was quite nice.  They sang three songs, each child gave a talk and the two adults in Primary did also.  They meet for only two hours.  The second hour was Primary, RS /YW combined and YM /Priesthood combined.  I was able to understand most of the talks and conversation.  The branch president speaks good English and they have one YW, a recent convert who also speaks good English.  She has spent some time in Utah at Weber College and was converted there. She told me it is a real adjustment to being a member here and attending the small branch.

Dave spoke to the Stake president yesterday and he said we are also to work with the YSA meeting in Zwickau, about 1/2 away by car.  They meet on Thursday evenings and we will probably be teaching an institute class.  We can't meet them this week as we will be returning to Berlin with the Worlis for a mission conference.

It has been snowing for the whole weekend so we have just been spending time trying to recover from Jet Lag.  That means no sleep at night and long naps in the afternoon.