I do cook. These are some of the JAEs (Young Adults) that we get to teach and learn from. I am making scones. Can you see the size of the stove? I can put two pots or pans on the top at the same time. My stovetop at the apt. can only hold one at a time.

Duane was asked to contribute some information about the mission and compare his previous mission to this one for his mission reunion. Here is what he came up with:
10 - People seem to speak a lot faster than they did 40 years ago. But, that's okay, since 50% of the members have gooder English than we does.
9 - Have a car and a covered parking space.
8 - Miss the kids and grandkids.
7 - Applied Technology (laptops, cell phones, iPods, facetime, and Skype)
6 - Cobblestones are a lot harder and rougher to walk on than they used to be.
5 - Priesthood in the branch ..... besides the full-time elders.
4 - No tracting!
3 - An hour and a half to a temple .... but it's out of our mission, but we can still go!
2 - Two baptisms so far this year! And more on the way!
1 - Two words --- FANTASTIC COMPANION!!!

If this was just cropped and we weren't in front of the bathroom it could be our official mission picture. Does anyone know how to crop?

Just a funny experience:
Tuesday I had planned tonight's meal, made the grocery list, and we were headed to the store when we get a phone call requesting tacos for dinner. It sounded easy enough so we changed the grocery list and bought everything we could find for tacos, some Mexican things you just can't get in Germany. So tonight I'm at the church frying hamburger, cutting up tomatoes and getting things ready for tacos when the thought occured to me - here I (an American) am in a little church in Germany, making tacos for a Guatemalan who requested them for his Armenian friend. Tacos were a great hit! We'll have them again!

For fear that some might think we are just here having a good time I wanted to show you that we do work. Pedro needed a haircut and trusted me to trim the back.

Open air market in Nurnberg. They sold everything you can think of. The stores surrounding the Plaza were very touristo and wonderful. There are no tourist shops in Jena so it was fun to see another side of Germany. Somehow this got out of order, grrr.

These are most of the Young Adults we work with. They had a Valentine's Day Party and all dressed appropriately (well, most of us did). Aren't they great!! So much fun!