California is such a beautiful state. I remember after driving across the Nevada desert, we crossed the state line, and were suddenly surrounded by trees, hills, mountains, and flowers growing all around. In Utah we have little clusters of flowers while here the geraniums are waist high bushes. We love driving through green hills, tree lined streets and seeing ground cover growing anywhere. Sometimes we see garbage, even furniture and appliances dumped out by the roadside, so we cheer when we see workers picking up garbage. The other day we even saw a worker dusting off the top of a public garbage can! Keep California Clean!
After our 3 days at the Employment Center we got to go on a 3 Hour Tour of the Bay on a catamaran. It was so cool, and relaxing, and amazing, and fun! We sailed under the Oakland Bay Bridge and around the Bay with the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco in the background. A day to remember!
We will miss our weekends with Jason and his family but we are thrilled for them to have moved to Boise this week and they are now in a home with an extra room and a fenced in yard!
We had friends (Paul and Nancy Nance) visit us this week so we got to walk through a Redwood Forest, visit Alcatraz, eat chowder with sourdough bread, watch the sea lions at Pier 39, spend a little time at the beach, visit Ghirardelli Square, ride a cable car, see the view from Coit Tower, and drive down Lombard Street - the crookedest street in the world. What a great time!
We went on 2 Ebike rides in our area on great bike paths,
and we served twice at the Visitor Center.
Today we had a record breaking day of visiting 5 wards! Some members ask if we will be attending their ward from now on and others ask if Roger is the Mission President. 
We didn't go to all their meetings as they overlap a bit, but we were able to attend a couple sacrament meetings and introduce ourselves in each of the Sunday School classes. We visited Cantonese, Tongan, Tongan YSA, Spanish and Mandarin wards. We can't read the Mandarin characters but we can sing along in Spanish and we love singing with the Tongans. It sounds like we are on the islands with them.
We didn't go to all their meetings as they overlap a bit, but we were able to attend a couple sacrament meetings and introduce ourselves in each of the Sunday School classes. We visited Cantonese, Tongan, Tongan YSA, Spanish and Mandarin wards. We can't read the Mandarin characters but we can sing along in Spanish and we love singing with the Tongans. It sounds like we are on the islands with them. The best part about our mission is all the beautiful people we meet here in the Bay area. We are having so many wonderful experiences. It is such a blessing to be a missionary.
All our Love,
Elder and Sister Jerman
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