April 2016

April started out with General Conference.  Missionaries gathered throughout the mission to watch these two wonderful days of talks from our leaders.  This was the English room in our building with many missionaries from the München Zone, plus 3 wonderful, recent converts.

Sister Strihavka was a great addition to our mission as she waited for her visa to go to the Temple Square mission.  Her visa came and it was time to say goodbye...

 But she met our daughter Tosha at the Provo MTC--the missionary world is so small! 

 This was a zone training for our München Zone

 Our Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders did a good job!

 Then it was time for April Mission Leadership Council.

 Happy Lunching Missionaries :)

Our April MLC Group.

 Elder Ringger finished his mission and we said farewell!

 Our April transfer brought us 4 Golden Sisters!

 Off they went to do their first bahn contacting.

 We enjoyed dinner together that night at the Mission Home.  They learned who their trainers would be and where they would serve.

 Then the next morning they were ready to go!

That afternoon each of the departing group received an interview with President Kohler and got ready to go home.  We enjoyed a relaxing dinner together...

and a wonderful testimony meeting.

 That weekend we visited our Brixen, Italy Group.

It was wonderful to see our 4 Elders who are serving there.

 Our 2 Klagenfurt Couples were also there helping with a stake choir!

 Then President Kohler & I went to Frankfurt for training with the other Mission Presidents and Wives from the Europe Area.  Here he is with the President from Frankfurt.

 And I got to see some of the other President's Wives who have become friends.

 A special treat was visiting with President & Sister Ivory who are our son Tanner's 

Mission President and Wife!

 This is the group that we came out with almost 2 years ago.  

They are wonderful couples serving all throughout the area.  

When we got back we were very happy to welcome Elder & Sister Barnes into the mission--they will be serving in Passau, Germany!

 We said a temporary goodbye to Sister Wonson--but she will be back!

 And to finish the month I got to teach a super investigator with the Sisters serving in our ward.

March 2016

 March started us right off with a transfer--we excitedly waited at the airport to receive our 

new Goldens!

 Seven of them arrived by plane and one by train--welcome!

 That evening we enjoyed dinner together at the Mission Home--followed by a testimony meeting and learning where and with whom they would be serving.

 The next morning they were ready to head to their new areas--off to the bahnhof!

 It was fun to have our new missionaries meet some of our more experienced missionaries.

 That evening we enjoyed a dinner with our 13 departing missionaries.

 We had a wonderful testimony meeting--we will miss you!

 Missionaries are always excited and nervous at the airport when it's time to go home!

 After the transfer we headed to Bern for Stake Conference.  It was great, as always, to be with our missionaries who are serving in that stake...

And here were more of them!  We were here for the Saturday Session.

 On Sunday we were in Stuttgart for another Stake Conference.  We gathered as many of the missionaries from the zone as we could catch!

 We were sad to bid Elder & Sister Zaugg farewell--they have served faithfully in Stuttgart and as our Office Couple--Thank you!

 As soon as the Zauggs left it was time to head to Zürich and meet Elder & Sister Pilz for our Mission Tour.  This group was our three Swiss Zones:  Zürich, Bern & St. Gallen.

 Lunch is always a very happy time for the missionaries!  And we are so grateful to the wonderful members who work hard to prepare it!

 That night we drove straight home after our meeting and Erika was waiting for us at the Mission Home.  It was a nice time to get to know Elder & Sister Pilz better.

 The next day's meeting was here in Munich.  This group contained the München & Stuttgart Zones.

 More happy lunch time visiting.

 Our final meeting was in Salzburg.  Erika joined us for this one!  

We had the Wien & Salzburg Zones together.

 What a lovely lunch...

 and what lovely sisters!

 Thank you so much for a great mission tour, Elder & Sister Pilz!  

We stayed on in Salzburg to attend the Saturday session of Stake Conference.   

Then straight to Wien...

 where we attended the Sunday Session of Stake Conference.  And loved seeing our missionaries.

 A few days later, back in Munich, we welcomed Elder & Sister Thompson into the mission.  They will be in Basel.

 And the day after that, we got our new office furniture--President Kohler & Sister Gildner inspected it.  Look at that wonderful conference table!

 The next week we said goodbye to Sister Friebe who has been serving here for 6 months while waiting for her visa to serve in the Temple Square Mission.

 As soon as Sister Friebe left it was off to Salzburg again--this time for the Senior Conference.

 We have such great senior couples!

 We enjoyed very informative workshops on things like Apartment Inspections!

 They especially enjoyed the time to eat...

 and talk, 

 and talk,

 and talk,

 and talk!

 We love our Seniors!

When we got home from Salzburg we said goodbye to Sister Crake--thank you for your wonderful service.

On Easter Sunday we were in Freiburg to visit the ward there.  A full month!

February 2016

 One of our München District Meetings

 Elders can eat really fast when they don't have a lot of time!

 Gathering for Interviews and the World-wide Missionary Broadcast in Munich

 Day Two of Interviews and Broadcast in Munich.

 Our evening meeting of Missionary Leadership Council

 February MLC

 Just meeting up with some of our wonderful sisters at the Church.

 More interviews with President Kohler

 We were very happy to welcome Elder & Sister Hanson into the mission--they will be working in our office.

Staff Meeting in the office to get ready for Transfers.