Here is our home away from home and our little car. There is a light snow this morning and it was 7 degrees. It is bitter cold when the wind blows and I truly admire the younger missionaries who tract out in this weather all the time on bikes. We are so blessed to have a car. Our good friends the Peters live across the street and have helped us adjust to a new country with so many new ways of doing things. When we arrived to our home the branch had been there and there was a Christmas tree up and Christmas decorations. They had also filled our refrigerator with food and the Branch President and two deacons stopped by and visited with us and brought towels and sheets for our beds. He truly is a great young man. The Stake President reached out of the branch boundaries to find and call him. He had served as a Branch President previously and was on the high council before he was called to this branch. He is just what they need.
The first couple of days we got settled and bought food and supplies. The branch president had brought by a branch list and had noted the active members and noted the leaders. He suggested we meet with these active members and the branch leaders and get to know them and the branch first. We made Christmas goodie plates and met with Brother Peters and he told us how to get to there homes. I wrote down a detailed description of each location. It was very difficult until we bought a GPS. That little voice on the machine is my best friend. She tells me what exit on the roundabouts to take, when to make a uturn when I've gone astray etc. Traveling has become much easier. The people live in little villages and their homes are most difficult to find because their homes have names likeFfynon Berwyn in the village of Idole or Ffynnonwen Fawr in the village of Trelech. I think you get the point. We live by the postal codes which lead us to the general vicinity of their house and then we ask neighbors where to find them. We finally got the goodies to all of the active members and then we sent Christmas cards to all the less active with our phone numbers. We now are visiting all of the less active members.
The first couple of days we got settled and bought food and supplies. The branch president had brought by a branch list and had noted the active members and noted the leaders. He suggested we meet with these active members and the branch leaders and get to know them and the branch first. We made Christmas goodie plates and met with Brother Peters and he told us how to get to there homes. I wrote down a detailed description of each location. It was very difficult until we bought a GPS. That little voice on the machine is my best friend. She tells me what exit on the roundabouts to take, when to make a uturn when I've gone astray etc. Traveling has become much easier. The people live in little villages and their homes are most difficult to find because their homes have names likeFfynon Berwyn in the village of Idole or Ffynnonwen Fawr in the village of Trelech. I think you get the point. We live by the postal codes which lead us to the general vicinity of their house and then we ask neighbors where to find them. We finally got the goodies to all of the active members and then we sent Christmas cards to all the less active with our phone numbers. We now are visiting all of the less active members.
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