April and Conference (4.4.11)

Liebe Familie -

First things first - My camera is having problems as of Saturday (I turned it on for the baptism and it doesn'T work). It turns on, clicks really loud, then goes in and out (the lens), and then stays on but is completely out of focus. I can look at taken pictures just fine, I just can't take any. I took it to a camera shop today to have them look at it and all they said they can do is send it to Olympus and have them work on it. That would take 3 -4 weeks. I decided to wait till I talked to you. Right now I have no camera (the Elders took pictures from the baptism and will save them onto my USB for me). Is there a camera at home that could be sent to me? At least temporarily until I can either send mince to you to have fixed or send it to Olympus through the camera shop. If I did that, I would wait till after transfer calls this week. TAY ARE YOU USING YOURS?!?

Franziska's baptism was beautiful!!!! It went so smoothly and she is super happy. She'll receive the Holy Ghost next week here in Ulm. Because we do not have a font here, we had to travel to Tübingen (about 2 hrs away) and we got to watch Saturday sessions of Conference there as well. Franziska wanted to drive us to her baptism so we showed up at her house early in the morning. When we walked in, we noticed she'd prepared a beautiful, traditional Schwäbisch breakfast consisting of semi hard boiled eggs (more like runny ones you eat with a spoon out of a fance egg cup), Schwäbisch toast, meat, cheese, tomatoes, and Caro Coffee (it's called Kinder Kaffee because it is a Malt type hot drink...REALLY GOOD). Then, we set off. She'd bought a GPS just for the occasion and things went well. Sunday, we traveled to Stuttgart for conference. Because of the time difference, we only got to see Sat AM\PM, and Sun AM sessions. Hopefully the ward will be able to procure a copy of Sunday PM for us to watch next week (that's what is normally done). If not, I'll just watch it online next week.

My favorite talk from Conference was Cecil O. Samuelson (of course it was neat to see him again. Brought back BYU memories), and M. Russell Ballard. President Uchtdorf was second favorite. I'm so excited for the new temples that were announced. What'S the status on the Philly one?

Alles Liebe -
SISTER CHOCOLATE