Cars, cars, and more cars - Porsche and Mercedes Benz

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Nancy at the Mercedes Benz Museum.  She's a beauty, and the car's not bad either.

I didn't realize how many brands Mercedes Benz is involved with.  The three points of the Mercedes Benz logo represent land, sea, and air.

Remember the movie "Cars'?  Well, here's the real deal at the Porsche museum on Stuttgart.

This is the underground parking garage. at the Porsche museum.  Lots of nice cars here too!

The truck that modernized farming in Europe.

Cars, cars, cars at the Mercedes Benz museum in Stuttgart.

It's been another great week.  We continue to connect with our couples across Europe, and they are outstanding missionaries.  We are so happy to be associated with them.  It seems that most of Europe takes their summer vacations very seriously.  As a result, the self-reliance courses are always lighter in the summer time, but the couples are finding many good things to keep them occupied.

This week, among other things, Nancy has been working on a spreadsheet of self-reliance courses taught in different languages across Europe, and I put a JustServe budget together for the Europe Central Area.  It is fun to recognize that what we are really doing is providing missionaries with tools that will help them be more successful in their service. 

Today, Johannes, a young man who plays pickleball with us, came to church and sat with us.  He has a lot of life baggage and needs a place to unwind and relax.  Pickleball is one of those places for him, and hopefully, church will become another place.

This weekend we went to Stuttgart with two other couples (The Watsons and the Waterfalls).  We visited the Porsche museum on one side of town, then the Mercedes Benz museum on the other side of town.  both museums were top notch and surprisingly interesting.  Anyway, it was a weekend of many cars.


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