Prior to Sunday morning we had located the assembly building so that we would be able to find it easily. None the less we got a little screwed up getting to it on Sun. morning. We managed to find it well before the meeting time.

A few folks were there when we went into the building. They welcomed us and an older man stopped to talk with me for a while. He only knew a little English and I only know a little German so it wasn't a very in-depth conversation. He told me that he learned English in a prisoner of war camp or prison during WWII. In this type of conversation you fill in the blanks with your own imagination for what the other person is trying to tell you. (I wonder if he came up with the right ideas of what I tried to tell him?) Helmut was not on hand at the moment.

This assembly has a ministry meeting first - I think some or perhaps all small children went to the basement for S.S. After the ministry meeting we had a 10 minute break - just enough time to find and line up to use the WC. Then there was the breaking of bread meeting. In both meetings the leading brethren sat on the front rows on both sides. Many of the men and boys sat on the right side of the room as you face the pulpit and the women and girls on the left side. Some families sat together. We sat together but there were women sitting all around us.

One of the brethren translated aloud our letter of commendation - as far as I could make out and according to Helmut the trans. was very fluent. This is the only assembly where our letter was actually read out to the congregation.

Friedbert & Dorothea Rudisile invited us home for dinner. They have a nice family of four children; Tim is the oldest at 21yrs., a university student; Lena is 18 and studying to be a nurse; Jonas at 15 is a highschool student and Rouven 12 is also a student. (Rouven is the same as Rubin in English). All were very friendly, Dorothea does not speak English but Friedbert and the young people speak quite a bit of English. Tim let me use his lap-top after the meal and got things set up so that I could read and answer the emails.

We visited them all afternoon and then were served supper as well. Since it got so late in the day we called the hotel to see if we could get a room for the night - they gladly gave us the same room that we had checked out of in the morning. Rudisile's would have liked us to stay with them but they didn't have any extra room. They like to sing so we all sang a few hymns in the afternoon.

They offered to provide a guide through the city of Pfortsheim the next morning so that we could find the proper road to our next destination.

The fellowship with other like minded believers was so sweet.