Frohe Ostern!!!

Sent April 25, 2011

So Easter here is an interesting deal. They get Good Friday off of work and, of course, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. It is currently Easter Monday and it is a ghost town outside. There is NO ONE out and about. We were lucky that the internet shop people are Muslim and do not celebrate the same days. We had a lovely meal with the Henkel family where we ate some real German food. No hasenpfeffer mom but there was a lot of chocolate to eat. In Sacrament meeting we had a few talks and two musical numbers. The first was Bru. Kastle who did an arrangement of hymns. The second was Schw. Henkel and her grand daughter (who is in her 20s) who played a recorder duet. I know everyone is thinking of the lovely recorder performances we've all heard come out of the 1st grade but this was different. They played a Corelli duet for Soprano and Tenor recorders. I felt very Baroque in Sacrament meeting. So a few updates on things here in the lovely city of Heilbronn. Sometime in the near future the performing arts place will be producing Das Rheingold and I REALLY want to go. Elder Sills is way up for it so we'll see if President Condie is of the same persuasion. We went on a lovely train ride out to Mosbach to go to an appointment. There were castles and Medieval towns on the way there as we wound our way around the valley with the Nekar river flowing peacefully below. We also went out to a lovely little town called Hochstberg. There were few buses and certainly none that go on Saturdays so we walked. Ever a lovely feeling. Schwabisch is a new language all its own. It sometimes sounds nothing like German. The members of the branch here are very nice and are very willing to feed us (Mom). I have had a lot of really good food. It's awesome that you had a bunch of people over and were able to be the medium through which the missionaries could teach someone. There are NO investigators out here, so we spend pretty much all our time going out to less actives and dooring. It's always a lovely time. So, I'm glad that the missionaries in California have people to teach. Anyway, I hope everyone is having a lovely time at home and that it's not as hot there as it is here. Have a great week! Tschuss!