Gutten Tag meine liebe Familie und Friend(in),
 
Wow it has been a good week.

First Abel was baptised yesterday 28Okt 2012! It was a stellar service. Jenny (The RM sister) gave the talk, and it was exactly what Able needed to hear to calm those pre-baptism jitters. This young man in the ward Denny was able to preform the baptism. Denny is 19 years old and has been going back and forth on his decision to go on a mission. Since we have taking him on some Joint teaches and he had the chance to preform the baptism, his mother told us, as well as one of his close friends, that it is now looking like he will be going on a mission! WAHOOO!!! Baptism and missionary all in one ;)

The article that was written about us came out, it is titled ''Do you believe in God? Sister Kimberly Bohne and Sister Rebekeh Schaerr do, and they are working hard to make Germany Mormons'' I was going to take pictures and send it to you but I decide I will do that over the mail. Hopefully you can get one of the German speakers in the stake to do some translations. Over all it was really positive. My Mission President. Pres. Kosak is just thrilled with the results as well as the public relations office in Frankfurt. The pictures are not the best, but it does look like we had been out and about all day, which we had. There was one part in there that was kind of funny and that was the part that said something like... '' They(Sister Schaerr and I) are so happy all the time that one would think they woke up and split a BIG joint together''. Needless to say the members have not let that part slide. They all love it, anytime that we walk into the church laughing they just quote the article. I guess it is a good thing, if they think that we are that happy all the time. :) :) :)

So they do this thing in Germany called ''The Night of the Lanterns''. This is a night where all the little kids walk around the neighbour hoods carrying lights. It is a Catholic holiday celebrating....honestly I am not sure, maybe night of the dead or something. Either way, Larrni, a women we are teaching, invited us to come with her and her klein sohn Paul. It was so much fun. We walked around the neighbour hood, and then afterwards were able to talk about...guess it...Matthew 5:13-16. It was a blast. I just LOVE teaching family's.

Over all I am doing good. My compie comp is leaving me in 3 weeks to return home after serving a WONDERFUL mission and I will then be required to take over Langenhorn which is always a daunting task. Lots of people, so many streets, all super face paced. and no older senior comp that knows the area. So I am right now trying to take a hold of everything that needs to happen, where everyone lives the whole 9 yards, but it has been fun. Sister Schaerr had been really good at only talking to me in German, and correcting my German when needed so that I am able to communicate better when she is not here. It for sure has improved 10 fold in the last 2 1/2 months.

I hope all is going well back at home. I love you all so much.

-Sister Kimberly G. Bohne

President Monson came to Germany!

Moin, na?!?<-(My favorite north German sentence, This means 'Good morning, how are you doing today. Super short and sounds super ridiculous when you say it ;)

Well This week was great week.
 
President Monson came to Hamburg on Saturday 13th  of October! It was really cool to see the love that he has for the German people. His talk focused on 4 topics. Listening, Learning, Laboring and Loving.

I should have brought my notes so that I could use exact quotes that he said, but I will just try and summarize it.

1-Listening. '' It is the greatest opportunity in this life to be able to help the life of another as we listen to the promptings of the Holy Ghost.''

2- Learning. ''It is not enough to just listen to the Holy Ghost guide you, you must also be willing to learn from the things he directs.''

3-Laboring. ''It is great to have dreams, great to have, hopes, great to have ambitions, but unless we do something about it they all avail to nothing. We must ACT''

4-Love: ''As we learn to love as the Savior loved, we will in turn become the type of servant he exsemplified''

He talked also a lot about really deciding what matters to us, and then living it. He admonished many times that we need to stand up and take the name of Chris upon us as we stand as witnesses of him among the many of those who don't know who he is.

Another great announcement, I am not sure if I mentioned this last week, but we had transfer calls on the 6th of October, Sis Schaerr and I are staying together for her last transfer! I don't know if I can express how blessed I feel, to have the chance to learn and grow under her influence and direction as long as I have. She for she is one of the best missionaries I know. Her love for the people, and dedication to the work is inspiring. The Schaerr family has a lot of reasons to be proud of their daughter!

I am doing really well naturally, the Lord really has been watching out for us here in Langenhorn. All those that we are working with are doing well. There are always bumps in the road to conversion, but with proper support from those around them, and a determination to do what the Lord would have them do, even the weakest of us will one day become the person the Lord sees in us.

The weather is getting colder, the nights longer here in Northern Germany, but the excitement of the work often times over rides the negative numbers and precipitation that we learn to deal with.

I am so grateful to be serving a mission, to be able to walk in the footsteps of my Savior as I follow him in doing our father business.

Shöne Grüße,

-Sis Kimberly Bohne

Hello Everyone,

Wow what a pack filled conference weekend!

Can you believe it, sisters can now start going on missions at 19!!!!
I was so excited when I heard that, I think it will do a lot to get
the wonderful young women out here in the field. SISTERS WE NEED YOU!

This week has been really good. It was indeed my 23rd birthday, yep I
am old. My wonderful comp Sister Schaerr and Jenny a sister in the
ward here in Langenhorn, schemed together some how with out me knowing
and made it for sure the BEST Birthday I have ever had in Germany!
First sister Schaerr woke me up with a candle, and some Cd's that I
was looking at the other day at the store..I know something was up
when she asked me to go look for the green and pink poke-a-dot book of
Mormon covers ;). They then reshuffled some appointments and surprised
me by taking me out to lunch to a wonderful all you can eat chines
restaurant with the best sushi in all of Hamburg! IT WAS SO GOOD.
Basically I just have the best comp and ward EVER! The best part that
it is not over. My parents also sent a package that they put together,
that has not yet arrived, but that should be getting here soon! I fell
so loved THANKS EVERYONE!

Something else really cool about this week was that I was able to
finish the Book of Mormon this last week in German. I have been
planing the whole time on finishing the book on October 5th, the day
before conference and my birthday. I woke up randomly on Friday
morning at 2am and was unable to go back to sleep. After some time
laying in bed I decided that if I was up I might as well be productive
so I went in the study room and being to read the last part of the
book of Mormon. As I finished reading the book in those quite morning
hours A peace and assurance filled my soul. I would just like to
testify that I KNOW that the Book of Mormon comes from God. I know
that as we prayerfully and openly study the passages in it we will
receive the words, direction, and counsel, our Father in Heaven has in
store for us. I know that as we live the counsel that we receive we
will be able to become more and more like Christ, growing strong and
stronger in our faith and more committed to serve him. I am thankful
to be serving here in the Germany Berlin Mission. That I was able to
even come on a mission. I am grateful for our prophets that have now
made it not even just easier for women to go, but also more practical.

Schöne Gruße von Langenhorn

-Sister Kimberly G. Bohne

Finding Faith in Jesus Christ Fireside and Personally

Wow what a week it has been here in Langenhorn!

So first, the Finding Faith in Fireside went super well. We had a great mix of members, inactive, and investigates who attended. The spirit was really strong, and a lot of the goals we had for the evening were accomplished. Regina found a friend here in the ward, which is what we have really be praying for. Family Bastan-Mahr showed up and had a WONDERFUL time. It was really cool to watch the hand of the Lord guide the program, and bring it all together.

We also helped Jenny, a returned sister missionary, move out of our ward into a neighboring ward this week. It was so unreal to see the life of a returned sister missionary. It made me think a lot about coming home and how crazy that will be...I will be one of those ,,Returned sister missionaries''....... crazy :p

The people we are working with are doing so well. A lot of them are hitting the phase that they are starting to realize that living this gospel is not easy, and that it does take sacrifice and a good amount of self change. However it has been good to see that because we focused so much on the basics with them, and made sure that they understand, during this time of testing and trials that they are going through they have been staying strong. Some of the things that they have said as we have talked about enduring to the end have been: ''Its hard.....but I have just got to make the decision.'' '' Ya, I know that I need to read in the Book of Mormon every day, that is what gives me the strength to follow Jesus.''  Sisters, it's not easy. I have to change a lot, but I know that is what God wants''.

I just feel so blessed to be here, to be able to teach these people something that has made me so happy. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. I love being able to focus on it every minute of every day in my life right now. It for sure is not an easy thing to follow, but I would not expect something of such worth to come with a cheep price. I am thankful that the Lord has given my the opportunity to learn what I really believe, through it being tested every day. As I first came out on my mission I was able to give the text book answers to questions people would ask, and was able to back up those answers with scriptures. But a change has been happening with in me that is hard to explain. This religion is no longer a list of do's and don't but a set up plan to help me become who I want to become. The scriptures are no longer words written by prophets of old, but a letter to me from my Father, giving me counsel, direction, and comfort. I remember when I was younger feeling like as I prayed I was really talking with someone that loved me...and I lost that for a while. As I lost that feeling, that relationship, in the same moment I started loosing me. I think it has to do with the person I truly am having to rely on the relationship to make decisions. For me that only makes since, I sat at the feet of my Father for MANY years, learning, seeking guidance, feeling that love He has for me, that when I turned my back on that relationship I lost the source that I have been relying on since long before I came to this earth. I have also noticed that as I have taken the time to repair/rebuild that relationship everything else in life seems to be more clear. That does not mean that the things that I have been asked to do become easy, but only that I am able to understand more of why I am doing it, and for me that is importent

I am grateful for your support, for your love, and for everything you have done to help me grow and develop. I hope all is going well back home.

Schöne grüße von Langenhorn!

-Sister Kimberly Bohne