This has been a really fun night. Elisa and I just got to play games with Mike and Christina, who we know through Google. We even got to entertain them in our new apartment. On Friday we played games with Tony and Rachel from our ward and with Matt and Erin from another ward. We still love our social life here.

Elisa has been studying lots of new things in German class. She is speaking more and more to people. The month-long class is already half done. It’s gone faster for me than Elisa though. The first week was really exciting, now I am hoping more and more that I can just keep up. I am learning a lot and understanding much more. German sure is a crazy difficult language though.

Yesterday we went to the Swiss capital of Bern. The temple is on the north side of town. We got so spoiled in Washington when the temple was only 15 minutes away. It was really only 11 minutes door to door. It’s two hours away from our home now (and luckily not further). I was surprised by how small the temple was. It took about half the session just to get used to hearing all the languages being presented at once. It will take some getting used to. After attending a session we did a walking tour in the Bern old-town. We saw Einstein’s home and the bear pits Bern was named after. The deeper you walked into the city the more quaint it seemed. You could easily imagine life buzzing around the streets hundreds of years ago. I had another run in with an unknown ingredient. I apparently ordered beet juice the other day. It wasn’t so bad. 🙂

Elisa got a calling in the ward today. Chad and I had just been laughing about how we were going to make disguises so we could hide as soon as a bishopric member came around. We were too slow. I was called to be the Primary Chorister again. I guess I am not getting out of doing the Primary Program this year after all. I am excited for the opportunity but terrified. I was so stressed with the calling in English–engaging and teaching children the songs in German is a completely different challenge. But I suppose we are promised that the Lord will fit our backs to the burden, right?