These are made from hay bales. They are huge rolls. Someone on this farm is very creative!

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This warm, genuine soul, Brother Aeurus, has brought along with him his posterity into the gospel. He and Richard were like brothers again, meeting after 50+ years. We felt of his gratitude for a missionary that came into his life, and made a difference for many.

This photo is one of Brother Aeurus's family. What a great posterity for him, and a knowledge that

"The One" counts!

"How great is his joy in the soul that repenteth!"

"And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!" D&C 18: 13, 16

The Petersburg Tower, also taken from our balcony, is a peaceful way to say goodnight...

Then the morning view from our balcony is marvelous. This early morning photo with the sun touching the red roof tops reminds me of a childhood song:

Good Morning Merry Sunshine

how did you wake so soon

You scared away the little stars

and freightened away the moon.

I saw you go to bed last night

before I said my prayers

Oh where have you been hiding

and why did you go there?

I went to see the children

the children of the East

for they were waiting there for me

to rise them from their sleep.

And when they said goodnight to me

I came to you at dawn

I always love the morning hours

for they bring joy and song.

The 24th of July is even celebrated here in Germany! I made these fun coloring booklets for the kinder in our branch. There are about 8 pages of pioneer memories, with covered wagons, handcarts, plowing, campfires etc. for the kinder to color. I'm really grateful for the church internet site, that gives us so much. The Friend site is of GREAT help. We do not have libraries to depend on, so the church web site is heaven sent.

Hanky-Hanky who has the Hanky??? Plus throw the plane at the target and get points. They loved the games and had so much fun as families. We can all be grateful for the inspiration of prophets who taught us to have family home evenings. They truly keep a family close together.

We enjoy having the two families in our gemeinde (branch) over for Heim Abend every few months. We meet at the branch. We plan a meal and a lesson, that the Elders teach, and then play games. This has been a big hit with these two families. Grace really did not eat all of this, but her Dad finished it.

Sister Klee celebrated two birthdays with us. Andrea and Brandon have the same birthday's. We went to her place for our weekly dinner, and she had made a cake. She did not know that we were celebrating the birthday's but when she brought out the cake I told her, and she went and got two candles. We sang Happy Birthday for them across the miles. (I look pretty tired here, and to tell you the truth I WAS)

We (had) a door with a large glass in the middle. One day the wind caught hold of it and slammed it shut taking the whole section of glass and spraying it down our 8 foot hallway. This was not safety glass. So very large knife-like pieces went charging down the hallway. We were grateful and blessed, that we where not in the hallway when this happened. I don't want to even think about that one. The Elders were there too, and they pitched in to clean up the jagged works.

When people move out of their wohnung, or apartments, they have to scrape all of the wallpaper off ceilings and walls. We and the Elders worked for 5 hours. We did get most of this project done.

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The end results--weary bones. Sister Kuper has been working on moving for a full month, and she was grateful for our help.

After a short lesson in Primary, we enjoy the play dough. This is Ben who gets into the action.

Good-bye to Elder Loynes. I had the Elders wear towel bibs for the picture. Each week we have them come over for Planning Lunch. They love the food, and a little relaxation with fun stories. They love coming and we love these sons of Helaman!!

"When ye are in the service of your fellowmen..."

When people move from their apartments they are required to remove all of the paint and wallpaper from their walls. Hard to understand why. We scraped and pulled in one room for about 3-4 hours. There were 3 layers of paper on the walls. We were tired but glad to be of service. The single sister who lived here just could not have accomplished this alone without our help, and two Elders.

Elder Loynes, Ashan Habib, Elder Puriri share a moment before Ashan's Taufe. We celebrate with him as he is our first Taufe in the Frankfurt Mission that we are now located in. We closed our Berlin Mission with a Taufe, and now open this mission with another. These are two very hard working and dedicated Elders. Ashan will forever be grateful that they were where walking on the same street, and opened their mouths to preach the gospel of repentance.

Once again the waters of Baptism open to prepare this wonderful young man for eternal life! What a blessing this is to see Elder Puriri acting with the authority of the Priesthood powers, and Ashan Habib ready for this moment that brings him to the feet of the Savior, and to take the Savior's name upon him.

The Elders and Sisters in our Zone were also at Ashan's Taufe. The Baptism was planned on the very day we had our first Frankfurt Zone conference in our new mission.

We are so grateful that Elder Loynes and Elder Puriri found this wonderful young man. He readily excepted the lessons, and loves the Book of Mormon. He said that it was The Book of Mormon that gave him a testimony of the truthfulness of the Church.

Taking the steps toward the door of Eternal life. This is a day of celebration after working 10 months with Evelyn Schopp. She was baptized a member of Kirche Jesu Christi der Heilegen der Letzen Tage by Daniel her husband.

This is Christ's Church:

"This is my doctrine, and it is the doctrine which the Father hath given unto me...and I bear record that the Father commandeth all men, everywhere, to repent and believe in me.

And whoso believeth in me, and is baptized, the same shall be saved; and they are they who shall inherit the kingdom of God."

3 Ne 11: 32-33

We have been blessed with another Taufe for our branch here in Nordhausen. We first met this family just after we started our mission assignment here, and have enjoyed their preparation with helping the Elders in teaching them.

These are a few of die missionare that have worked with the Schopp family over the past 10 months. Some Elders have gone home, and some others have been transferred. From left: Elders Brechbuhl, Downing, Puriri, Loynes, Arnold. Today celebrates the many hours of lessons, faith, and prayers for this wonderful family.

Evelyn and Daniel with Grace and Mila. Evelyn's tauft today will unite this little family in the gospel plan, and bring her into The Kirche Jesu Christi der Heligen der Letzen Tage. This gate is open to all, and is God's plan to bring His children home to Him again. What a glorious day this was!

Grace, Mila, Jessica, Ben--these kinder are preparing to watch the baptism of Evelyn Schopp. These are the only kinder we have in our primary or PV.

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.