This is the Erfurt district that is moving over to the Frankfurt Mission. The President has promised us that as we serve with our best efforts, we will be blessed and come to realize why we are the few the Lord knew, and needed to now be in the Frankfurt Mission. "I will go where you want me to go dear Lord, I will be what you want me to be."

We traveled to Jena for our farewell dinner with the Pimentels, and came across this old guard tower from the medieval days...just envision the armored warriors on top shooting arrows and throwing rocks. The new tower just behind to the left, is the modern "tower in the round", where business offices are buzzing. As warriors of light, we do not shoot arrows, but we do proclaim the truth, that Jesus Is The Christ, and desires everyone to "seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you." Quite a difference in the way to solve problems. The Pure Love of God is calling to all.

Poppy Fields are now on Display throughout the country side. The mustard seed fields are now harvested, and we wonder what they do with the Poppy???

We said farewell to President and Sister Pimentel this week. They are serving in the Berlin Mission, and we will now be serving in the Frankfurt Mission with President and Sister Ninow. This is a heartfelt time. He and his wife have been wonderful, and have served us with love, and devotion in the Lord's work here. They have encouraged, supported, and strengthened us. With tears and love we say "God be with, you til we meet again."

A few weeks ago we said good-bye to Elder Kearl and said "Welcome" to Elder Loynes. Elder Kearl went home to Mantua, Utah after serving a very honorable mission. Elder Loynes has come to us from being a Zone Leader, and is also a powerful Son of Helaman, and now "our son" as well. He lives in Manchester, England.

This is a picture from a history book of the Mesopotamia city, that more than likely Lehi strolled through. We saw this reconstructed at the museum using the same tiles as were originally there. This is an amazing piece of work!

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One of Richard's mission companions and his wife met us in Berlin. Sloan & Ana Marie Hales. We were treated to the Pergamon Museum. These are some ruins from ancient

Mesopotamia. Can you imagine some of the ancient prophets roaming among these walls and columns?

We traveled into the Harz Mountains just a few miles away from us on one of our P-days. These are lush mountains overflowing with varied colors of greens. Beautiful very German scenery.

These are the mustard fields that we see as we drive through the country side on our travels to Erfurt, and other places. We have really loved the color. It brightens up our days after the cold winter months. When the sun shines on these fields they are brilliant yellow.

Elder Weidmann spoke with us. His advice to us was to help our members help us. We are to help the members become aware and prepared to use two magic words as they visit and talk with those who are not members. The words to use in your conversations are: "My Church". We and the members, will begin to be asked questions about what church. This leads to wonderful conversations about Your Church. We have a lot of work to do, and the spirit of Elijah is real. Our hearts, and the hearts of others are turning to their fathers. We will be blessed by

1. Feeling the strength of the Lord in our lives.

2. Our Faith will increase

3. We will become more obedient of what we have been asked to do.

This was at our May Zone Conference

Sisters "M"; Wells; Gill; Dable; and Hegaweld. The one by me, and the next sister, are really sisters! These are great sisters to have with us here in the Berlin Mission. I will miss them as our mission changes in July. They all work with the Youth Centers in our mission, and are doing a fantastic job.

I was able to visit with Sister Wiedmann at one of our breaks. She was kind and gracious. She told us that when they were delayed from going home to Switzerland for 3 weeks, due to the recent cancellation of flights, that the feeling was awful, as her desires to go home were put on hold. She applied this to the Atonement of Christ, and that we should ponder about not being able to go home after this life. Do we make a connection to Him. His flight plan will take us home. "...where I am you can be also." A 17 year old boy was pondering and asked Heavenly Father why he was so blessed...and the answer came back to him, "Because you are MY SON." We show our Heavenly Father where we want to be through our deeds, desires, and action in the gospel plan. Excellent Talk!

Freiberg Temple entrance where the Angel Moroni is blowing his trumpet for the whole world to Hearken and hear the words of the God.

This is a beautiful temple, "and the work of the Lord will cover the whole earth."

We Love going into the House of The Lord, and coming out knowing the work we have done is being rejoiced over in the Heavens.

These are sheep, not sure what kind. Any suggestions?

The jungers are actually quite cute!

"We are going to the temple! Sister and Elder M; Jungfer; Klee; Kuper; Richter.

We went for a walk on Monday after we arrived in Freiberg, and then on Tuesday spent the day in the temple doing the work for Sister Klee's family. These sisters and a few more are the Relief Society strength of our branch.

We have totally enjoyed the "Mustard Fields" that have grown in every field, valley, and knoll. This is delightful to see and smell. It grows to be about 2 feet tall, and then they harvest it. By the way, they have so many choices of mustard here that you can't go to wrong. The kind of mustard we have at home is not found here. Here they truly know how to make mustard.