Krefeld, Germany

Up at 7:15 and got to the church house a little after 8 to work on the MIA Room. The Missionaries were there, but Br. Rudloff couldn’t make it. The missionaries wallpapered and I painted the door and doorway from the foyer into the MIA Room. The missionaries got one wall almost finished. The wallpaper sure looks good. Br. Miller painted one of the windows, but paint doesn’t go on the windows so well. We quit about noon.

I tried to call Gordon but no answer. The heat was off in the church and I couldn’t get it on. I called Br. Trautmann and he said he’d get it started when he came in to clean the building.

I went home and took a three-hour nap. I picked Rebekka up about 6 p.m. and we went to Düsseldorf to go to dinner with Gordon. We arrived at the Hilton to find a big Carnival Ball going on. I saw Frau Hoch, first time since she left Ehrenreich. We went to the Heinreich Heine Steuben for dinner by taxi. We all had steak. It cost 72 marks for all three of us. We walked around downtown on Schadow Strasse. Took Gordon back to the hotel about 10 p.m. and went home. Was in bed shortly before midnight.

Transcribed from my journal.