

Hi everybody! I´m not sure what I left out from my Switzerland trip. Well, on our way there (we took a night bus at like 12:30 and between switching trains we slept at the train station with people that looked like homeless people for 2 hours in a room that had a roof but no heating). I had the blanket that Liz had made me, so I didn´t freeze, but almost worse than freezing was the smell in the room. I am pretty sure it was the worst thing I have ever smelled, but I don´t know how to describe it, so I won´t try. We went to Salzburg and met up with a Young Single Adult group, and rode on a charter bus with them on an 8 hour trip to Switzerland. It was awesome to get to know them all! We spent a couple of nights in an old bomb shelter, which was actually really cool. On our first night there we had a dance, and of course, all of the Austrians taught us how to Walz (even to upbeat American music.... they never dance alone....always in pairs), and then when a cowboy song came on my friend Rachel and I decided to teach them how to country line dance. It was cool to make the trade. Doing baptisms for the dead in the Swiss Temple has been the best part of my trip yet. It is the same peaceful place as it is in the Provo tonight. The leaders of the Young Single Adults were so nice. I explained my allergy to the lady who did most of the cooking, and she went out and bought me some gluten free stuff and then fixed me some special food. I couldn´t believe how nice she was! On our last night of the trip Hans Ringger, a retired 70 and current Patriarch in Switzerland, gave us a wonderful fireside about priorities. It was neat to meat him, because he is the uncle of my uncle, whose parents moved to America from Switzerland. He shared some inside jokes and nicknames of my uncle. Tonight I am meeting Markus, the Austrian guy who I met in a cafeteria and talked to him about the church, to teach him English words about the Bible. We will be meeting once a week to discuss the bible in English. This week he is supposed to go to church with me. After that I will be teaching a beginning English class at the youth center, and I think there are 5 people in the class now, but this is only the second week. Last week I went on splits with the sisters, and a girl on the U-Bahn heard me telling some girls who didn´t want to hear about the church that they could also come to a free English class at our church. She tapped me and asked for more information. Right before I got off the Subway I handed her a card with the address of the church and told her she should come and that I am the teacher. She said she would. I am so excited! She is Muslim, and I want to talk about the church in English for a part of each class period. Today we went on a field trip to two different castles, and one of them totally looked like the castle on Snow White. I better run!
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