September 24th

Hello Family, friends, and loved ones,

Things in Langenhorn are going great.

We are having a Finding Faith in Jesus Christ Fireside this Friday night here in Geminda Langenhorn which I am so excited for! We have some amazingly talented Elders in our Zone that play the Piano and the Violin. These two elders have put together an arrangement of Children Hymns that will have kind of an EFY up beat sound to it. They will be playing this for us at the Fireside. We also will be showing the movie Finding Faith in Christ. Hearing testimony's from some returned missionaries here in the ward. Sis Schaerr and I will be leading a question and answer session. And it will end with some cool sing-a-long with a member who is amazing at the guitar. Oh and we can't forget the wonderful German desserts prepared for us be the wonderful Relief Society sisters.

Oh I should probably mention that a few weeks ago we were followed around by a reporter and a photographer for a day. They work for the 'Zeit' the biggest newspaper here in Germany. They were wanting to do a story of two Sister Missionaries to publish in there collage magazine. President suggest Sis Schaerr and I. We had to do some cool over the phone training with the Church  public affairs officer for Germany.  That story should be coming out here in the next few weeks. When it come out I will let you know how it went. It was just really cool, to be able to bear testimony, all day through words as well as actions and know that it will be printed and read by thousands of young people in the country I have been called to proclaim the Gospel to. Talk about a great oppurtunity for missionary work!

President Monsen will be coming to Germany in three weeks!!!!!! He is doing a tour and will be stoping here in Hamburg, I am super excited!!!!

Some updates on investigates.

Regine: Doing great! We will be climbing a hill next Monday to start a '40 day fast' from all word of wisdom issues that she has. It will be a rough time for her so she will need a lot of prayers. She was telling us how she wanted to be clean for 40 days before she would be baptised. I am SO proud of her! She is giving it her all, and it diffenity is not easy. I some times just want to take some of the pain that she is feeling a way from her and place it on myself. However it is cool to watch her humble herself and turn to Jesus Christ and to then be lifted up.

Andre: We will be meeting with him tomorrow. He has just finished a big international peace conference that he has been really busy with. But he gave us a call, and we will start the lessons up again! I am excited to watch all of the knowledge he has really turn into a testimony.

Abel: We found him 3 weeks ago and have been meeting him 3-5 times a week since then. He reminds me of Eric Patrice (from Eisenhüttenstadt). He is from the Ivory Coast, which is where he first came in to contact with the church through his mom who was attending for a long time. He is one of those prepared people. We have just set a baptismal date with him in a little bit.

Laarni: Is a referral that we got through a wonderful family here in the ward. We have now been meeting with her for the last two weeks. She has a little boy Paul who is 10months old and SO cute! She is seeming to understand everything so well, and has been asking a lot of really good questions. Questions that make you go back to the apartment and have to study, I LOVE IT.

Khalil: Is doing wonderful. We are now helping him learn German which is always so much fun.

Brother Arno Gansterblum: We have lost contact, but I think it may have been a good thing. I will just teach him and uncle roger together in the next life :P 

Family Bastan-Mehr: Still super busy with school and work. We are praying a lot for them. It is just hard to help someone see the loving nature of our Heavenly Father when through out their whole lives they have seen the name of God be used to create so much contention.

Well I hope all is doing well for you guys back home in the states! Love you lots

-Sister Kimberly G. Bohne