Well, today we decided to venture out the outskirts of Jerusalem... After about a 40 minute ride we found ourself in a little town called Ein Karem. It was such a beautiful little town, it looked like Europe... rain from England, streets like France, and chocolatiers from Switzerland. We started out the day looking at churches and then we stopped at a place called Greenfield. Turns out it was the art studio of Yitzhak Greenfield, he told us his life story and showed us some of his work and his impressive resumé, turns out he has work hanging in the Met in NYC!! I got to spend some time listening to him tell me how he did his some of his works. It was probably the highlight of the day for me! After we explored a bit, found a cave. And then the rain really started coming down so we went and got pizza in a little shop. After pizza we called for the cab and waited in a little chocolatier's shoppe. I got some hot chocolate and a piece of chili chocolate (which was divine let me tell you!) It was such a great day!! And quick shout out to Elder Farr who is doing great as he finishes up his time in the Brazil Missionary Training Center, we've officially been dating one year as of today... its been a great one and I hope there are many more spent together J
Left to Right: Laurann, Me, and Hollie at the Church of John the Baptist
Service going on while we were in the church
Where John the Baptist was born into the world
Cal and I in front of the Russian Church up on the hill
The random sign we decided to follow that led us to Yitzhak Greenfield
A couple of us with Yitzhak Greenfield
Piece of art done by Yitzhak Greenfield of the Galilean Countryside... this one is my favorite
Impressionist Paintings by Greenfield
Church commemorating Mary's Spring
Church commemorating where Mary met Elisabeth, her cousin
Mural of Mary it was probably 30 feet tall!
Front of the church
A little pathway we decided to venture up... it was so wet!
Up the pathway quite a ways we found ourselves a cave!
Me with my hot chocolate and piece of chili chocolate... oh so good!!!
My little message from Blake... aww!
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