Bells in Zurich - left; our apartment right, the one just above the trunk of the blue car with the 3 potted plants






Starting from left back: Elders Middleton (DL), Eschweiler, Jona Neidhart, Larsson, Evans (AP), Elend (AP), Larson (me), and Pine (DL), and Mom's taking pictures and you know why.

NOVEMBER 15, 2008 SATURDAY

This morning Elders Elend, Evans, Pine and Middleton picked us up in the van at about 9:45 to go to Bahnhof Oerlikon to set up our exhibition stand and meet people. We didn’t know, but the Elders did, that it was a big farmer’s market that’s held there every Saturday. Anybody can set up a stand and sell produce, meat, cheese or whatever. There happened to be another display about 50 feet from ours where the people were giving out religious calendars and material. After we were set up we went over and talked to them. They don’t believe in any one particular church or belief . They think churches are only for getting money from people. They also only believe on the bible and nothing else. After talking to them for about 15 or 20 minutes, we were able to place a BM with the one lady and we took one of their calendars. After that we walked around trying to talk to people. Most wouldn’t give us the time of day, but we were able to place two more BM’s before we left. One of them was given to a man that had a booth. We talked to him for awhile about the Church and the BM and he accepted the BM when we offered it to him. As we were walking away he gave us a small bottle of olive oil which was among all kinds of bottles of oils and stuff he was selling. We thanked him and went on our way. We showed the bottle to Jonas Neidhart, a member who was helping us, and he said it was a very expensive bottle of olive oil. It was very cold this morning with a little fog. When our fingers, hands and feet froze to the point we couldn’t stand it, we’d duck into a store and thaw out. Then we’d go back out and try some more. About noon we ducked into a store to get warm and found a McDonalds so we bought a cheeseburger for all the Elders. They really appreciated those because it gave them something warm. We came around a corner of a building and saw a person laying on the sidewalk not moving. Some people walked past her, but as we got there two men stopped to see what they could do. When we got close enough we saw it was a lady and she blinked her eyes so we knew she was alive. I took off my overcoat and put it on the lady to keep her warm while the two men called the police for help. She finally moved her head and we saw blood underneath where she must have cut her head when she fell. After about 10 minutes when the police finally arrived, I took my coat and we left. By that time the Missionaries had seen the crowd and came over. One Elder said the lady was a person that hung around the bahnhof and was drunk a lot. Anyway, a little excitement for the day.

All of the people with produce/other booths closed up around 1:00, but the Elders kept ours up until 2:00 although we left a few minutes early. We went home for a break and then went grocery shopping for a few things. We ended up getting more that we thought. We took that home and then decided to go get some more plaster so Diana could make more sunstones. She’s been giving them away and before she runs out, she wants to make some more. The climate is humid here and it takes forever for the plaster to dry enough to paint them and then for the paint to dry. For the rest of the evening we are completing our reports and getting everything ready for our correlation meeting in the morning.

Even though I type the journal, Diana (Mom) makes sure I write down what she wants written, so it’s a combined effort.