APRIL 17, 2009 FRIDAY

We invited Helena Roffler and Heinz and Lily Locher for dinner tomorrow at 12:30. Since the Lochers are friends with Silvana Gianatti, a less-active member, we asked them to invite her and bring her with them because we felt it would be more likely that she would come. It turned out she turned the offer down. Sister Roffler said she wouldn’t be able to come, but made arrangements to come anyway. She’s a sister who lost her husband seven months ago and the bishop asked us to look after her a little bit to help her with her loneliness. Helena and Heinz are brother and sister. The Lochers have had us over to their place a couple time for dinner so we thought we’d return the favor. We wanted Brigitta, Helena’s daughter, to come also, but she was working and couldn’t get off.

Today we delivered invitations to Rene’ Gysler, Patricia Pacutto, Henry Otth, Gerde Schroeder, Hildegunde Schroeder, and Franz Bannwart. The only one we found home was Brother Bannwart and he didn’t have time to talk to us. We only got to say a few words over the speaker system. When we started out, it looked pretty bleak as it was raining and blowing. Throughout the day there were periods of sunshine and nice weather, and then a storm would blow in and it would be cold and rainy for awhile. We came back home for a few minutes while Elder Pine and Elder Harris used the computer to print off another lesson from the Portuguese PMG for another lesson with Solange. Her baptism is still on for Sunday evening. After they left, we went back out to deliver a birthday gift to Marco Lechmann thinking we were late enough in the day (6:15 pm) that he’d be home from work. He wasn’t home and it was a disappointment for us not to be able to meet him and his wife. We made it back to Migros just in time to pick up a few things for tomorrow’s dinner.

We were also able to plant two of the tomatoes in pots to put out on our balcony. We’ve never grown plants in containers before, so we hope this will give us some fresh tomatoes this summer. We need to buy more potting soil and some other types of plants too. It’s still early, but we can bring them in at night so they won’t freeze.

No we didn't buy or eat the horse steaks although we hear they are good and very healthy. We borrrowed the photo from Elder Ehlen and Elder Roberts who bought them and ate them and said they were delicious. You might have noticed the price was about $15.00 a pound.