GOOD SUNDAY

Today we happily attended the Pratteln Ward.

It is a lovely drive on a Sunday morning!

We visit a different ward each week, to become better acquainted with the young single adults in the stake.

The Pratteln Ward young single adults do not attend our institute because they have one available to them right in Pratteln, which is about an hour from Bern.

But we visit there occasionally anyway--it's such a great ward.

And they come to stake events in Bern and we know a lot of them, and other members in the ward.

We also like to see if there is anything we can do to help the missionaries.

Today was the last Sunday of the transfer,

and Elder Farnsworth is being transferred. He and Elder Talley helped translate in sacrament meeting for me, doing a commendable job of it!

I think they amazed themselves!

We drove back to Zollikoffen, where we spent the afternoon with President and Sister Castellani of the Bern Temple, sharing a delicious Italian meal and each of us telling about defining moments and people in our lives.

It was an inspirational time with these two absolutely wonderful people . . . you can just see the tenderness in their faces . . .

. . . Thank you President and Sister Castellani!!!

Returning home, we were delighted again to see how well our geraniums have done. This view is of the back of our apartment building from the parking lot.

The poor geraniums were sad when we bought them--hardly any buds at all.

But with Elder Grassli's tender loving care, the moist Swiss summer, and some good doses of fertilizer, these alpine geraniums have become happy and contented!

And so are we!!