And the Winner Goes To?

Carol, the judge, declared them all winners. These are our pumkins out front of the church entrance during the Halloween party. My pumpkin is the tree, Sister Moser's is the word Doch. She started out to do BOO and made a mistake so she turned it into the German word for After All, or are you sure, or yes, that is so. The tiny one on top is Elder Craghead's. It took him an hour to decide what to carve, and hour to think about it, and half an hour to stencil it and about 30 mintues to carve it We were really teasing him. Told him he ought to be a doctor and he said he has been thinking about it. The bottom left pumpkin is Elder Sessions' and it is a bat. Elder Pinnau's is the hands and Elder Halvorsen's is the face. The kids loved the pumpkins. They are now outside our center lit up at night for a few more days.

Elder Pinnau

Don't let him get his hands on a knife. He is getting ready to carve his pumpkin as part of the District's pumpkin carving contest. This is the kitchen in the church. Elder Pinnau goes home next week.

German Food Preparation

Here is our Bishop Herr, red shirt, and Brother Hack, our Landlord with his son Christoph and his wife (back turned) getting ready to serve crepes ala chocolate, or plain and waffles. This was at the Halloween party. Bishop Herr is over the buildings for the Church in southern Germany. He is a wonderful man.

Halloween Costumes

We decided to get dressed up for the combined American and German Wards Halloween party and trunk or treat activity. No suit coat for me and a casual sweater for my beautiful wife.

Games, games, games

These are some of our youth and investigators getting ready to play spoons. It seems this is a pretty popular game at the center. The pictures on the wall are the pictures of those who come to the center.

Stake Dance

This is Klementina, one of our YSA, dancing up a storm. This was at the Stake Ball in Darmstadt. The leaders were disappointed that only 300 came. Last year they had 400. Not since BYU have I ever seen a Stake Dance with that many in attendance. It was for ages 14 and up. Everyone had a great time Even some of our 80 year old membes were dancing. There was a live band. We even danced 3-4 times. Out of practice.

Luau Dinner

Everyone enjoying the Luau. We had 26 youth in attendance. You see pictures of the Chinese investigators. In the background the girl with the red hair is German and the young man next to her is an American. These two were taking the lessons but decided to stop them. The Chinese have come several more times to family home evening and Institute.