Week 9

Not too much happened this week. I did go to the Swiss temple though! That was exciting. The temple is about half an hour away, in the Bern, the Swiss-German portion of Switzerland. It was interesting because our group was French speaking, but it seemed that most of the temple workers spoke German, but one woman in the baptistery spoke Italian. There is also this girl here named Nancy visiting from Mexico. She speaks English, but no French and she is an engineer, so we chatted. Below is the temple. It was a very cold, windy, day and it was lightly snowing.



We got a group picture of the Temple goers. This first picture is of some of us. The rest had not come out yet. Sister Hinman is on the right(alone, her husband is taking the picture), and next to her are our institute teachers. They just have one little baby. The rest is just people from the institute.


In this picture we had everyone, but I was blocked. Oh well.


I also got a calling in church this week. When they took me aside to give me a calling I was so curious to see what they came up with! What do you have a non-French speaker do? I was called as a primary teacher, in the Nursery. Exciting! There are only 3 children in there, 2 speak French and the third speaks Swiss-German. The Swiss-German boy is my friend Annie's son, so he knows me because I hang out at there house occasionally. It should be fun. There are 3 other women who work in there, so we can rotate and get to go to RS or Sunday school on occasion, and one is my friend Abby, the others I know, and they speak English pretty well.

It doesn't feel like Christmas yet, here. I don't know why. I think it might be because people and stores decorate less, and I don't hear any Christmas music. I have been trying to watch all of my Christmas movies, and any that have Christmas occur in them, like 'Little Women' and 'While You Were Sleeping'. I want to make cinnamon rolls, and I attempted to make a gingerbread house with the children. They just wanted to eat it, I don't think they have ever made one before.

That is about all that is going on. One thing that was exciting for me this week was I found this little used English book store. I bought a few books, and a few small children books, that I think I will give to them for Christmas.

We will be leaving for Christmas vacation on the 23rd. We are driving to Paris, it is about 7 hours away. So I will have much to write about that in the near future. Merry Christmas!