YSA BLAUBUEREN
OWEN TECH CASTLE & VIEW FROM TOP
NEUENSTEIN CASTLE & TOWN
You guessed it, one more time to Blaubueren for a Young Single Adult Conference. We were here for 2 days. I can still smell the aroma of homemade waffels, made by the Young Adult Center Missionaries. Here in Europe, the Center for Young Adults/Institute directors positions are assigned to couple missionaries from around Europe and especially from the US. In the Frankfurt Mission alone, we have 4 couples assigned in different areas. They spend about 4 days a week with the young adults not counting Sundays. They attend their regular wards on Sunday but on the weekdays they have Family Home Evenings, Special activites together, game nights and waffel nights. They really love those waffels. I think that calling requires a lot of cooking. It really does keep all of them more active in the church during that critical period in their lives.
This is where most of them come to try and find a Eternal mate and alot of them do. If they haven't gotten married by the time they are 30, they come back to YSA the next year as a counselor. We are working with one of the secretaries in our office who met her husband this way. They come from all over Europe. They said there was 12 countries represented and 480 Young adults there that week.
We left at 1600 hours on the second day and started for home. We ran into another cute town called Neuenstein. It had a small castle and a church. We just took pictures as it had already closed. Beautifully laid out town. After traveling on Gene spotted another castle on top of a high hill. He was persistent and found the road leading up to it. It was in the town of Owen and the castle was called the Tech Castle, because of the rock formations in this area. We drove as far up to it as we possibly could but they do not allow cars up there. The only way is to hike, which was not my cup of tea and it was raining buckets. We saw a group of men coming down with their walking sticks. It looked like a group of friends that walked everyday. Kim would love this place as it has beautiful views from the top. I took a few pictures of that also.
Home to rest. I think this is the last assignment for a while. We have been discussing visiting alot of the FHC here. We are looking forward to that. We are also looking forward to resting a little while. I didn't think I would ever say that, but the Lord does sustain us in our work.
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