Hello everyone,
We suddenly love the cool morning hours as the days warm up to 106°/107°. We live in the Greater Bay Area so it is interesting to walk out our front door and feel like we are in an oven, then drive to Temple Hill in Oakland and get out of the car to a 20° drop in temperature and breathe in the cool sea breeze. It drops another 5° or more when going on down to San Francisco.
Every 6 weeks (the length of a transfer), we invite all the missionaries in our zone over to eat. We have 4-6 come for dinner once or twice a week to fit in all 22 missionaries. We love the opportunity to get better acquainted and let them share a gospel message and sometimes a song on the ukulele or guitar. 
We had a very wonderful and quite unique 4th of July. We first enjoyed an E bike ride on the great bike paths in our area, and then a swim at our place. Then we served at the Visitor Center before joining the other senior couples for a BBQ at the mission home. We got special permission to go up on the rooftop garden of the temple to watch the fireworks going off all over the Bay Area for as far as we could see. From this view we looked down at fireworks going off in tons of neighborhoods below us. We stayed overnight at patron housing that has an incredible view of the Bay Area, and fell asleep to the constant rumble of fireworks that sounded like distant white noise in the background.
We got up early to go to the temple with the missionaries, then took a ferry to San Francisco to enjoy the Exploratorium Museum where the first PI Day was celebrated in 1988. Saturday we enjoyed time at the Family Search Center and served again at the Visitor Center.
Ferry Ride
Exploratorium
Sunday we enjoyed visiting 3 new wards about an hour away from our home. We got to listen to testimonies, including a lot of youth who had just returned from a wonderful stake youth camp. We then went on to Sunday School class to introduce ourselves and share information about the Employment Center and employment services. The Samoan ward invited us to stay for their "Linger Longer" meal where they dished up our plates sky high with delicious food. We enjoyed visiting with many members and missionaries then drove home feeling so happy and blessed to be here.
We finished listening to all the recent General Conference talks. We'll start again as there are so many great messages to discuss and ponder, and we know we can learn something new each time. My favorite thought was by Elder Kearon that "God is in relentless pursuit to bring us home." We are not alone. He loves us. He . . . loves . . . us, and we can all return to Him. I know this to be true. Pres. Nelson promised many blessings as we attend the temple. We love being here.
With Love,
Elder and Sister Jerman
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