Sunday

We drove about 50 Km to the city of Celle. I served in this city as a missionary 50 years ago arriving in Sept of 1961. They got a new chapel 5 years ago.

After church, we met with some of the members who go back that far. Sister Peters and her daughter, Sabine (2 in center) were there when I was and the other two came a year later but knew many of the people I had taken pictures of when I was there. I even had several photos of Sabine. She and her mother and the others were delighted seeing the pictures of the past. It was a wonderful reunion.

Sabine 50 years ago.

We visited the center of the city of Celle but 50 years erases a lot of memory or lots of change and reconstruction has taken place. Carole has begun collecting pictures of doors. Many if not most are older that the USA. This is the entrance to the city hall.

We then drove thru Uelzen where I served for the last 9 months. They have turned the main street into a partial pedestrian zone. At every eiscafe, they put sidewalk seating in the parking strip.

We had an early dinner at a BurgerKing on the way back to Soltau and a walk back into town to an eiscafe for an after dinner treat or second meal of the day. The choices were difficult from milk ice cream. Cream ice cream, yogurt ice cream and fruit ice cream.

Carole decided on a 4 scoop banana split with 4 different flavors. Carole says that the scoops were small but they made up for it with whipped cream topped with cherries and strawberry sauce and chocolate sauce. I got a 2 scoop cone which was listed on the receipt as a “children’s portion”.