Differencet cultures here

We are leaning so much about so many different cultures, all in one little city. Each ville has a a special uniqueness about them. The different cultures through out Geneva celebrate their traditions from their country. Last night I taught our mongolian sisters knitting and we made gingerbread cookies using the Nauvoo recipe. I personally think the cookies needed more spice, but I'm a spice lover. Today a new couple from Idaho came to serve in Lyon which is about 2 hours away. They wanted us to help train them, but we find out that he served here on his first mission and she knows french , They should be helping us. Jim still struggles with the language, but the problem is not his brain, it is his willinesss to talk to dogs,trees, strangers, children. One day we were speaking English and a little girl kept turning around looking at us and I said ;, we have a secret code, well, of course you know what happened, I started speaking french to her and she answered in England English,that she didnt know that much french. There are alot of private schools her and alot of diplomatic important people here. Tomorrow are the big tranfers for ths mission, just before the holiday, 11 go home and then next week 11 transfers. \i have already meet two that are from france, because, if you havent heard,. it will be more and more difficult to get into Switzerland for missionaries after 2012, We live in France because it is supposed to be cheaper, but we serve in Geneva, If you ever study the map, Geneva is surrounded by france because of some old old rules. When we travel around we go across the border several times a day, always with our passport and have not ever been stopped, but we do have a special sticker on our car., Our friends got stopped and had to go back and try a different road, to get into Geneva. That is a brief update of our mission, we look forward to doing more at the Center for young adults, as we sepend each day here, We have a calendar for the new year with activities each weekend, inlcudeing a snow, luge trip and in two weeks we will have a field trip to the temple about 2 hours away in Bern