MOVING FORWARD

Elder and Sister Rick and Jan Kagel arrived on July 2nd.  They hit the ground running and you know how these new young missionaries bring energy and enthusiasm to the office.

On the Fourth, the Senior Missionaries got together for KFC and root beer in the parking lot at the Fredrichsdorf chapel.  Good food, great friends.

 On our way to Copenhagen we stopped near Hamburg in Northern Germany to see Buttler relatives, Anne and Gunter Dembski and their son Andreas. (So where is Andreas?)

 We spent Sunday afternoon with the family of our Denmark Public Affairs Director, Martin Stokholm.  The girls Kristina and Sophie are on the left, then wife Eva, Martin and Martin and son Michael.  These folks are the best of the best and so good to us.  Made us feel like family as we got to help choose among 6 wedding cakes, the one for Kristina's wedding on 27 July.

 Monday was our culture day.  We visited Thorvaldson's Christus, Dennis Smith's "Kristina" on the old docks of Denmark where the saints embarked for Zion, and we went to Frederiksborg Palace to see Carl Bloch's paintings of the life of Christ.

 Kristina - by Dennis Smith. Engraved bricks in walkway next to the water contain the names of some of the 20,000 saints that left from here in the 1850's to go to Zion.  Danish saints were once the largest ethnic population in Utah.

 Carl Bloch paintings in the Palace prayer room.

Got to go to Ward Temple Night in Copenhagen.  The interior is beautiful.  The Danes know design.

Most important part of the trip was training 3 zones in 3 cities on 3 days in how to be good spokespersons for the church with media representatives.  This is the zone in Aarhus, Mission President Sederholm is on the front row 3rd from left.

On the way home, we stopped by Gisela Werth and Hans Fischer's home near Hannover to say hi and renew old friendship.  Gisela was married to Ortwin who died a few years back. She now has a good friend Hans to keep her company