A Visit to the Museum

An old mosaic dating back to the 2nd Century. It's a picture of a drunken Hercules.

The remains of a ceremonial chariot. It was not used in war, just celebrations.

Read the description of this below.

The old Roman Coliseum that is still used for concerts today.

On the day we went with Bishop Cuche, we started out at the Museum. It had all kinds of stuff dating back to Roman times. There are so many things here that are 1000's of years old that I think they take some of it for granted. In America, we think that if something is 200 years old we should rope it off and let people look at it but not touch it. Not the case here. The stuff in the museum is untouchable but there is much outside that is still in use. Such as the the coliseum that they still have concerts in now.

This is OLD !!!!

This is a cute home still in use.

You should be able to magnify the sign and read the left of it that is in English.

These stairs go up to the door of the Church.

The streets are very narrow.

This is the corner of the Church seen from below.

This past Tuesday, Bishop Cuche took us sight-seeing to a museum and an OLD village. The village was established sometime before 1000 A.D. (it could have been 100's of years before 1000AD.) Their village Church was being used by 1079 A.D. Here are some pictures from the Museum and the village. By the time we got to the village, it was starting to get dark but we were still able to get some pictures. Afterwards we sent to the Bishop's house and had dinner.

At Faux wall in Geneva

Faux sitting on the wall

Faux wall in Geneva

Lynn & Cherie Faux sitting

Roman columns in Nyon, Switzerland

Julius Ceasar founded Nyon, Switzerland

Our first ten days in Geneva

The Balloon Festival

At the Balloon Festival in Chatteau d'Oex

Lynn trying Escargo for the first time. He actually liked it!!!

With President & Sister Murdock our first day in Geneva

When we first arrived in Geneva, we were assigned to work in the Young Adult Center in Lyon, but there were still missionaries in our apartment. We were assigned a temporary apartment in a suburb of Geneva called Prevessin (which is in France not Switzerland) until the next transfers (for 10 days.) We were still only about 15 minutes from the mission home. We had a lot of time to just hang out at the mission home, travel with President and Sister Murdock, or do some sight-seeing.

Our trip to Geneva took 23 hours and a lot of it was spent sitting in airports. (5 hours in Dallas and 3 hours in London). We finally arrived in Geneva exhausted. Cherie was able to sleep on the plane to London but Lynn couldn't get comfortable so spent the night watching movies.

Our Trip to Switzerland

Lynn at the airport in London

Lynn at the airport in Dallas

A very helpful British airways gate agent in Dallas got us seats so that we had a whole row to ourselves.

Cherie on the plane to London

Last Weekend at Home

On our last Sunday at home we were set apart and celebrated Kim and Tala's birthdays.

Lynn and Cherie with French Tutor, Frere Beteridge, at the MTC