bourg en bresse

we traveled to this Bourge knowing that I had something like Zona and had to hide the spots, much like chicken pocks, from the doctor . This was an important meeting to complete our Visa. we were successful,as I diverted the Dr. attention, much like I often do!

the UN jardin and the Lac

Twas la nuit avant Noel

Twas le nuit avant Noel

Et all through la maison

Ne pas les animaux was stirring, not even la souris

Les bas were hung by la cheminee avec care

En espoir que Pierre Noel soon would be la

Les enfants dormant dans les lits

Pendant que les visions des bonbons dansent dans leurs tètes

Et maman in her herchiez et moi avec ma chapeau

Had just settled nos tetes for a long nuit d’hiver

Quand out sur la pelouse les neiges et beaucoup de neige

E t après seulement 8 weeks in France et Switzerland thats about

All we can write in French this annee, but come next Christmas

We promise to get Pierre Noel down back into his sleigh

AND AS WE PONDER our commitment to serving the Young Adults in this beautiful

Part of Europe, we say thanks for your support and Happy Christmas to all and to all

Une Bonne Soiree THE CHATTERLEYS

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

Christmas in the Institute

Does this sound good to you? In todays ad for the holidays ..Noel.... <>.. probably you can figuer out alot of what it is and by the picture you can tell that it is green, well, it is a stake of green beans with bacon wrapped around it! But the worst for me is Poire roitie en rope de lard, same thing only they wrap bacon around a pair, like fruit. Hopefull friday \i will learnhow to make their most famous dessert, besides chocoate and that is bouche de Noel, it is a light cake in a spiral, like cinnamon bun only it has all kinds of fillings like rasberry, lemon, nut butter, ect. Yes, I am going to try new things but very slowly They eat alot of duck and rabbit and they keep the face and fur on the meat so yu know what kind a meat yu are getting and you know that it is fresh. The best is all the fish, which of course I already know I like. Today we bought albacore tuna, Big deal!, So tonight we make a noddle with Bolganize sause, let you know how it goes,

Christmas celebration in Geneva

Hair done the french way

Today,while Jim was at district meeting, I got my hair done, What an experince! She did not speak any any English, It took three hours which is OK because she did a good job and the price was OK (merry Christmas to me) But while she was doing my hair, she had a picture hanging on a chain around her neck and I said (now think of my mother in this siltuation ) <> and she said it was her grandmother, I said, You dont look like her. ( the was Indian with a big dot on her head). Then the hair dresser starts going into this preachy sahaja yoga stuff, and I said <,,,,bla bla bla, in french,,,,I am a missionary and I know a little about Hindu when I studied world religions, ( now I am getting very deep into trouble with language and philosophie and this lady has control of my destiny=== my hair looking good) She wanted me to go with her on monday and do all this weird Indian, chanting, etc. Luckily she had a handout( kind of like a pass along card) with a web site and I said I would like it in English, that it would be easier for me. Now here is the probelm, her hiar salon is right below where we live. In French many mnay apt have business below them. That is how |I found her. So she sees me every day! But she did know and said that she had another client who was Mormon. Will take pic of hair later, just glad that I knew enough french to keep me out of trouble, kind of. I had another missionary experince tonight, also, totally in french,I said we were missionaries and she asked <> and I answered all in french about the 10 tribes and the second coming ad she said that she was a preacher and I said,