A week's work

We had the privilege of going to the Freiberg temple with some of the young people  from Zwickau and their families.  Even better, our friends, the Jentzsch's, from Chemnitz were also there.  Two young women from our institute group were getting their endowments; one to get ready for her mission and the other to get married.  They are lovely young women.  Also, I was able to listen to the whole session in German and understand it. YEAH

I love the temple..no matter where you are the love is felt!

Friday we had meeting with two families.  Sister Ernst's brother is always there for our meetings with her but usually leaves before the lesson.  This time, in a very teasing fashion, he said he would be baptized in 6 months if Elder Montgomery would stay for two years.  We wrote the date in our planners.  Then we met with a former branch president who is no longer active.  None of his family are members so he feels it is too hard to come.  His wife is leaving for New Zealand for 5 weeks to visit family so maybe we can get him to come while she is gone.  She is very pleasant and welcoming to us.  We had a lovely visit.

Earlier in the week we got a note from the PTB (Powers that be) in Frankfurt asking about parking places in the area where we hope to get a permanent location for the branch in the downtown area so we went around taking pictures of parking places.  Two of the big lots which are close are closed on Sunday but we think there should be several street places free on a Sunday morning.  We will check it out in the morning before we got o church.

This reminds me of a joke.  An American couldn't find her car and asked a German to help her find it.  She showed him the note she had written telling the street where she had parked naming "Einbahnstrasse" which means One Way Street.  Given that most of these downtown streets are very narrow, not having originally been made for cars, they are often now one way.

On our walks we pass many of the 'Hofer Wärschtlamo'.  These are basically street hot dog sellers.  They are only found in Hof and sell famous wursts from Hof.  They have a specially shaped brass steaming pot to heat the wursts and they dress in a particular way.  One fellow we chatted with had been on the same street location for 23 years. They take their calling very seriously and know they are famous.

Thursday we drove to Zwickau again to teach and to feed the YSA.  I made a great big pot of potato soup because last week we had 14 there.  This week there were 5!  I sent massive amounts home with three YSA.  Dave made cornbread to go with it and everyone loved that.  We sent some of that home as well and then shared the recipe.  Sister Müller, the bishop's mother, made a special treat called 'krapfen' which is made for Fasching which is next Tuesday.  They reminded me of donut holes.  I need to find more information on what fasching is.  So far all I know is there are a lot of Halloween type costumes for sale in the stores.  Tuesday is also transfer day so we will have Elder Stuve with us while Elder Hess travels for 10 hours on the train to the other side of Germany to a town called Leer (which in German means empty).