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Ice Breaker
Here is an update on Deborah. Monday morning she went out on her exercise walk with her friend. It was cold and icy. She slipped on some ice. In order to protect her back, she extended her right arm to brace her fall. This caused her severe pain in her wrist, but her back did…
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The Church in Turkiye – Christmas Markets
Five years ago, Deborah and I visited Istanbul. I was fascinated by this beautiful and strategically located city. It has a very rich history. It was settled by the Persians in 600 B.C. (Anatolya), conquered by the Greeks and Alexander the Great in 300 B.C. (Byzantium), conquered by the Romans and Emperor Constantine in 400…
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November 2023
As missionaries we bear the name of Jesus Christ. Literally. We always wear a black name tag that bears our name and his. D&C 18 21 Take upon you the name of Christ. 22 And as many as repent and are baptized in my name, which is Jesus Christ, and endure to the end, the…
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October 22, 2023
Today Ella Romney and I taught Relief Society. The lesson was Pres. Russell M. Nelson’s October 2023 Conference address titled “Think Celestial!” What a treasure to teach the Prophets words with my dear friend! Ella opened by sharing how we met 40 years ago in Dallas, Texas. We were just starting out as new wives…
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Summer 2023
Summer 2023 Missionary Life from Deborah: It has been a unique and wonderful experience to live in an apartment building with 26 sets of young and senior missionaries. AND be able to walk across the parking lot to the Area Office and Church building. Two weeks ago, we said goodbye to the Porthstrasse Area Office. …
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Spring 2023
On April 27th my mother passed to the next life to rejoin my father. She passed peacefully and painlessly. Now there is one less angel on earth and one more in heaven. We knew when we left on our mission that she might pass while we were in Germany. That is one of the hard…
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March 2023 – New granddaughter -Earthquake in Turkey
First, the most important news: OLIVIA ARTEMIS LEWIS, born in Henderson, Nevada to Taylor and Ashley and new big-brother Harvey Apollo Lewis. All are doing well. Olivia is our tenth grandchild. Probably the hardest thing about the mission so far is not being able to hold her. From Deborah: Olivia’s birth has caused me to…
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Christmas & New Year’s
Well, if you scroll down, you won’t see any pictures of Paris. When we posted our last blog update we said we were waiting for our residency cards so we could go to Paris for six days over Christmas. Guess what? The residency cards did not arrive. We can’t legally travel outside Germany without them. …
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Christmas is coming
Winter is Here One of the things we were apprehensive about coming to Frankfurt was the cold, winter weather. Well, it has arrived with vengeance. In fact, it has been much colder than normal. We have had a week of sub-freezing weather and a little snow. The humid cold is more than what we are…
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COVID for Thanksgiving
Geoff is working to keep the lights and heat on in the Rome and Paris temples. The Church has entered into twelve-month energy supply contracts for the Rome and Paris temples. The contracts expire on December 31st. Because the war in Ukraine has caused energy costs in Europe to increase many-fold, the energy companies are…