Diana and Charlotte eating lunch at Grosse Scheidegg; the other two are scenery photos during our trip taken from the train.

JULY 14, 2009 TUESDAY

At 10:00 this morning we were at our district meeting at the Church. Everyone was there except our zone leaders, Elders Harris and Nilsson, who attended the Singen district meeting in Germany. We had the usual great meeting with inspirational talks, testimonies and game. Diana’s part was a game in which she taped a goal on opposite sides of a table and two players sat opposite each other. Each had a straw and the point of the game was who could blow a ping pong ball using their straw through the opponent’s goal. First one to five, won the game. Two tables were set up and the winners of each table played each other until all were eliminated but one. For my part of the district meeting I gave all the missionaries a Book of Mormon marking guide we used when I was on my first mission. Certain passages were underlined so when a BM was given to someone, he was advised to read the underlined verses front to back. In this way the person would understand the purpose of the BM, Christ’s mission, the four principles of the gospel, and Moroni’s promise to anyone who read the book.

Elder Norris asked us if he and his companion could come over to our place after the meeting to see if he could recover the photos from his camera card. It seems something happened to it and his camera can’t read it any more. He spent some time downloading a couple of recovery programs and then tried them on his card. Unfortunately, nothing worked and so he’s lost all his photos taken during the last month or so. He was pretty bummed about it. While they were here we fed them each a meatloaf sandwich, chips, banana bread, coolaid and a half slice of watermelon. They finally left and we immediately left to do some grocery shopping for the salad we committed to bring to the “go home” dinner for Elder Evans at Charlotte’s at 5:00. We also needed a few things for tomorrow evening’s “I quit smoking” celebration for Priscilla. We’ll be at the temple all day tomorrow so we had to get what we needed today. We got back in time for Diana to make the green salad and get over to Charlotte’s. It was fun seeing Elder Evans again and talking about his future plans. We think he’ll be going to BYU in the fall.

At 6:30 we left with Elders Harris and Nilsson for our meeting with Priscilla Wegmueller. The lessons tonight were on chastity and keeping the Sabbath holy. The Relief Society President, Esther Ryser, met there as well. We had a great discussion and Priscilla committed to doing everything she was taught, in fact, she was doing most of them already. We also went over all the baptism interview questions and finished just as Elder Norris, the district leader and his companion showed up. Priscilla was nervous, but when Elder Norris came to conduct the baptism interview, she was ready. Sister Ryser left to go home and everyone else except Elder Norris and Priscilla went out on the patio so they could conduct the interview in private. We talked with the missionaries for awhile and then went home ourselves. We still needed to make a chicken salad for tomorrow night and get some hamburger patties and cervalets out of the freezer. Diana made a jello salad earlier in the day so we hope we are set for tomorrow. The last thing of note is it’s raining right now. Today has been fairly warm.