elder & Sister Larson; real honest to goodness horse meat steaks.


APRIL 16, 2009 THURSDAY

This morning we baked some brownies for Urs Wichtermann because it was his birthday today. He was released as bishop of the ward last year and, after we gave him the brownies, we talked to him and his wife about a couple of members who we didn’t know. One was Simon Andrea who Brother Kummer told us about yesterday. Urs told us he had moved to Winterthur but, because we found his name on the internet phone book white pages, we decided to go to the address just to make sure. The other name, Marco Lechmann, was on the ward newsletter birthday list. We found out he moved into the ward with his wife a couple of months ago. His birthday is tomorrow so we hope to meet him then.

Elder Pine was still trying to resolve the problem with his portable hard drive. He came over and used our phone again, but had no luck with the warranty. The person he talked to did help him to figure out a way to download the information from it to our laptop and then transfer it to a new portable hard drive. The problem was he needed a cord in order to transfer the data. We told him where there was a computer store not far from here so they went there to see if they had one. Instead of having to buy one for 60sfr. they let him borrow one for free. He downloaded the information and when they left, we left also to go find Simon Andrea. It was raining and cold when we went outside, so I went back in a got an umbrella. We wished we would have gotten our coats too. We took tram #9 to Luchwiesenstrasse then walked to the address. Urs was correct in that Simon didn’t live at the address anymore. We walked back to the tram stop, but just missed our tram. There was a nursery right there so we went in to see if they had any plants to plant in a garden. Low and behold, they did! We bought three tomato plants and wanted to buy some cucumbers, squash and maybe some others, but they didn’t have any of those. They said they would have some in by Saturday. We hopped back onto the tram and went to Schwamendingen where we got off. We had a dinner appointment with the Viegas-Hawes family tonight and wanted to buy something to take with us. It seems it’s customary to bring something (drinks or a dessert etc.) as a thank you for the invitation. We bought a nice chocolate cake. We also bought a bag of potting soil for the tomatoes and then went on home. Shortly thereafter we left for the appointment in Binz.

We left a little early just in case we had bad connections with the trams and buses. It turned out we had no problems and so had time to kill because we were advised not to arrive before 7:00 which is when the two small children would be in bed. We got off two stops before the one we needed and spent some time in a Denners grocery store mostly killing time while staying warm and out of the rain. We bought a few things just to be polite, but we also bought an umbrella to replace the one that was stolen some months ago. We finally found one cheap enough (9sfr.). We arrived at just the right time and spent a very enjoyable evening getting to know Tony & Julienna, as well as eating their delicious dinner. She prepared a curry sauce with chicken over rice which was spicy, but very good. For dessert we had crepes with melted chocolate over which went fresh strawberries and bananas. It was delicious also. Our spiritual thought was one on faith and enduring to the end. We used the burning of the tea bag as the object lesson. It is always impressive as an illustration if it goes as it should, and this time it worked to perfection. They wanted to drive us home because it was late, but we declined and took the bus/trams and got home at 10:00.