This is a picture of Eld. Asay (Preston)....

....with our Mission President and his wife, Pres/Sis Murdock.  We were very good friends

with Eld. Asay's parents, Bob & Helen Asay in Richardson, Texas back in 1986. 

Eld. Asay is now serving in the France, Lyon Mission.  (Our mission)

This is the Castle of Gruyere.....

....in it's very beautiful location.

These 80 pound wheels of cheese.....

 

....are made by the Gruyere Cheese factory.  There is a robot that turns these cheese wheels

over and coats them with a salt water solution up to once a day.

Cailler Chocolate factory in Broc, Switzerland...

.....offers a great tour of the history of chocolate making. 

Factory is owned by Nestles Co.

The last room of the Chocolate factory tour....

....is a huge room full of all kinds of chocolate samples and you

can stay in there as long as you want and sample everything.

On our last visit to the Rigaud Family....

......we are going to miss this family.

The beautiful castle of Gruyere....

 

....is only about 10 miles from our apartment.  The mountain behind the

castle is the one that the grandkids will climb.

This is the route that the grandkids will take...

....to get to the top.  (La Face)

Elder Larson's last Sunday in Switzerland....

.....he is going home tomorrow to Mesa, AZ.  He was a very dedicated missionary.

Elder Larson going home.....

....and these 2 au pair sisters are not really that happy about it.

We love the Rigaud's.....

More from the Rigaud's....

From the Rigaud's.....

Our Branch President's family....

From our good friend Jayely....

Can you guess what this guy was doing....?

.....Fancy pants and all.

Bocce.....playing on gravel....

....less than one block from our apartment.  There were 20 places to play

and looks like they had a tournment....on gravel.

Have you ever seen bumper boats.....

....this in a local mall for little kids.  Looks like lots of fun.

From one of our good friends....

....we made a lot of good friends in Switzerland.

Marco's 1's shooting medal with...

...the adult group.  Marco shot:  99, 96, 95, 97 & 93 from the kneeling position. 

Marco is in the front row, on the right.

What do we have here?

On the way home from the Temple today....

....we saw these Swiss Pioneers headed to Salt Lake City.

We found a real Roman Amphitheatre in Switzerland....

....less than one hour from our home.  This dates back to the 3-4th century.

Right near the Roman Amphitheatre....

.....was this little kebob sandwich shop.  Boy was that good.

A tram ride powered not by electricity....

....or any other type of fuel.  It is an energy free ride.  (Very clever Swiss technology.)

Looking down from the top.....

.....this Funiculaire uses ZERO energy.

Our driver, decides how much waste water.....

....to add to the top car, so that gravity will pull the other car up 

while pulling us down.  He also takes into consideration the number of passengers.

When our car reaches the bottom....

.....it will discharge up to 800 gallons of waste water.

On our way down, we pass....

....a similar car coming up.

This was the bottom....

....looking up to where we came from.

Great scenery and.....

...wide open spaces.

Friendly ponies....

.....to pet and feed.

Going into the woods....

....lots of interesting things to see in these woods.

A great walk in the mountains....

....the the Rigaud family.  (Brooke is taking the picture.)

A local farm house....

...with lots of cow bells for decorations.

A close up of the cow bells....

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Here we are heading to the firing range.....

....to shoot in the world's largest shooting festival.  About 200,000

Swiss citizens shoot in this event annually.

For the first 6 shots, you have a minute each....

.....after all 60 shooters are finished, young kids come out from protection and signal to the score keepers where your shot went.  After the first 6 shots, they then give you 60 seconds to fire 3 shots, and do that twice.  After each minute the kids then again signal the score keepers where your shots went.

The last 6 shots have to be fired....

....in 60 seconds.

Your target is 1000 feet away....

....and it's about 18 inches square.

Even though its only 18 shots....

.....it is a little exhausting.

I put the pressure on Marco this year....

.....he was having a bad shooting day.

Field shooting 2012

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