EASTER WEEKEND 1

We began the Easter weekend on Friday by reading in the four gospels the accounts of the last day of Jesus' life. I have also been reading Jesus the Christ, so that was an enhancement and helped me understand more about that time. In the evening we had dinner at the Laueners'. They are the parents of 8 boys, two of whom are still at home and some of our fineYSAs.

But Peter and Ann were home alone on Friday, and prepared a lovely dinner for us. We had a great visit . . .

. . .and a walk to view the wonderful countryside in which they live. A peaceful evening!

Saturday morning we took Sister Susan, left, and Sister Tina, the two Catholic nuns who live next door to us, into the countryside. They don't have a car and seldom get out of the city/apartment. This is Wollensee and it was wonderful on this sunny Saturday morning. They seemed thrilled to be out!

We certainly enjoyed it!

Later that day, Elder Grassli and I went again into the countryside on our own and walked in the forest. The floor of the forest is carpeted everywhere with miniature anemones. It's amazing! The photos don't do it justice.

Sunday we were in Solothurn for Church. When we returned, together we prepared our part of the Family Home Evening group Easter Feast.

The two of us make a pretty good team!

The tablecloths we made months ago from the fabric we had to cut off our apartment curtains to make them fit the windows. The extra place setting is for a less-active who didn't show.

The already-cooked-and-dyed Easter eggs are from the local market. They have been selling them since Christmas! They are really gorgeous saturated colors. I don't know what they do to preserve them.

The moss is fresh from our forest walk the day before! We had a few critters emerge during the dinner, and we had to, ahem, exterminate them!

(Ants, a spider, and a centipede! But no frogs or mice, thank heaven!)
But we had our traditional scripture readings with lamb, garden salad, water, eggs, bread, sweets, and even the napkin in red water/clorox. Anna did salad, the sisters brought the vegetables, and Matthew made his famous pear tart. We filled in with the lamb, potatoes and gravy, and homemade rolls.

With our little FHE family here, it almost felt like home!

Except we missed our Tressa, who had her Easter with our friend Brittany and a Swiss family. See you next week, Tressa!