All things bright and beautiful...

Bonjour à tous, j'espère que vous allez bien et cette semaine a été bonne!

Well, it's Saturday and the men are on the church 'Men's hiking and biking day' so I'm making my way through my joblist. Bathroom=done! Washing up=done! Cup of coffee=done! hehe...as you can guess, the list is almost as long as when I wrote it! So what happened this week? Well, Monday was a bank holiday here in Switzerland; which was very welcome! A group of us decided to visit the longest Glacier in Europe...the Eletsch (SP!?) Glacier...I will let the photos speak for themselves, it was another breathtaking moment!

This time we took the Cable car-much more sensible!

That's me with 3 of the Slack girls, Gustavo and Suleidy came too

Yes, that's me and no, it wasn't a bet to wear that hat, I chose to wear it. Think what you like. But take note of that massive Glacier!!!

It looked a bit like a huge motorway from up here

You can make out the line above the glacier now where it was in the 1800s.

Tom and Karen (an elder and his wife) also came with us

Too beautiful for words (ambiguous I know!)

View of the other side; that point in the middle is the Matterhorn...see last post!!

On Tuesday evening we were joined by our friend from Bradford, Joel and his friend Adam. They set off at 1am Tuesday morning and arrived with us at tea time the same day! Good going! They kindly brought with them some of our less-essential items (another car load-where will we put it?!) and in return are named as our first offical house guests here in Switzerland. We have had a great time, we had the day to show them around on Wednesday and they have been doing some exploring of their own. We're going out for a meal tonight and they'll be returning to GB after church on Sunday afternoon.

A picnic spot in Leysin, we are guaranteed to take you here if you come and visit!

Enchiladas!!!

Our 'Permit Bs' came yesterday which is great because that was one of the final things on our lists! Now we can get swiss mobiles and really feel at home here! We also went to get health insurance yesterday (a legal requirement here), for someone who hasn't gone to the doctors in over 3 years I found it very hard to stomach that we will be paying so much money per month in case we need to see a doctor etc, and then because we requested a high excess we'll have to pay the bills anyway!! It was a bit scary really and made us realise how much we are completely in God's hands in terms of our health! Who knows what is around the corner, but we trust that whatever God's plans are they are the best as He sees the end from the beginning. Reckless abandon at the feet of Yahweh...I can't imagine a better place to throw myself!

I know I promised pics of the appartment, but whilst our guests are here it is not as neat and tidy as usual...so keep checking I will eventually give you the grand tour!!

Keep us posted as I endeavour to keep you updated.

a bientot!