L: crowds at the zoo; M: Diana, Gita and Robert; R: Kurt & Gitta Kummer









APRIL 15, 2009 WEDNESDAY

This morning when we woke up we were still worried about what to do about Sister Martin and her house cleaning project. We called the Zone Leaders and they said they couldn’t help because they would be in Arau for a district meeting there. Next we called the AP’s and asked for their help. They said they could help and would try and help Elder Norris figure out how to do it on that day. Later on Elder Norris called and told us the good news that next week’s district meeting could be a district service project at Sister Martin’s mother’s home cleaning it out for her. I called Sister Martin and told her the good news and it was a big relief to her to have help with this project because there’s no way she and her husband would be able to do it alone. Sometime during that day Elder Norris said we will have lunch and a spiritual thought etc. so it can be counted as a district meeting. This morning we also did some work on updating the member list and getting a lesson ready for Kurt & Gita Kummer with whom we had an appointment at 3:00. We also did our wash which was a morning long project and then the drying which went into the early afternoon.

We left for our appointment, but on the way there we made a visit to Sister Tilgner to take her a birthday gift. She wasn’t home so we left it on her door and continued on to the Kummers. They are always fun to visit even though she has many health problems and can’t get around very easy. She said she’s only been outside the house once this year and that was for the blessing of their new grandchild last January. We gave them a lesson on the mission of Jesus Christ and made a comparison between Him and Satan, using the same “Bird Cage” story and the story of the anti-Christ Korihor in Alma chapter 30. Diana gave her part in German. Before, during and after the lesson did very good in conversing with them in German. They understood everything she said and she understood most of what they were saying too. They naturally speak very clearly and slower than most Swiss which helped her and me a lot. Sister Kummer wanted a photo of us together with her so we took photos with her camera and ours. While we were there, Brother Kummer asked us if we had visited Simon Andrea whom he said was once a member of our ward, but didn’t know his status now. He said Simon lived not far from where they lived. Simon is not on either of our member lists and we hadn’t heard of him before. Following that visit we came home and looked him up on the internet and found his name, address and phone number. We’ll try and get some information on him in correlation meeting next Sunday before we try and visit him.

Elder Pine called and asked if he could use our home telephone to call the company where he bought his portable hard drive because the pin where you plug in the cord had come loose. He took it to a repair place here in Zurich, but they told him it would cost a thousand dollars to get it fixed unless he could arrange the repair through the warranty where he bought it. He was unsuccessful in reaching the company tonight because it was after hours, so he wants to try again tomorrow. All his photos etc. from the beginning of his mission until now are on this hard drive and he hopes he hasn’t lost it all. That would be heart wrenching to say the least. Diana fixed dinner for them while they were on the way here, but they had just come from a dinner appointment. This is probably only the second time they have come here and not been hungry.

I forgot to write in yesterday’s journal entry that Diana called Suwang to see if she would be released from the hospital on the 15th which is today. Suwang told her the hospital staff was unable to find an in-home physical therapist in her area to help her after she was released, so they decided to keep her in the rehab hospital for another week. That means we’ll be able to visit her at least one more time in that pretty part of the country.