Tagged with "Germany"
Mormon missionaries and Martin Luther
MR says: A great story of one missionary's effort to find something in common with a combatant contact. Some hymns on occasion seem almost to compel the congregation to rise to their feet. Some hymns seem to demand the sonorous peeling of the organ. And some hymns (and you'll have your own preferences here),...
“Died in the Service of Their Fatherland”: Latter-day Saints in Germany, World War I
MR says: It's always interesting to read stuff like this from the other side. A glance at Der Stern, the publication of the Swiss-German Mission, suggests that the start of the First World War came as a complete surprise to mission president Hyrum W. Valentine and the missionaries serving in Germany,...
'That's America': Former German soldier, Mormon builds new life in U.S. after World War II
MR says: Wow! What a story. This LDS man describes the challenges of serving under Hitler, among other things. Manfred Gellersen was a soldier once, and young. He is neither now, and like many old soldiers, he has his memories and stories. A feisty, outspoken man of 90 years, Gellersen tells his tales in a...
Uchtdorf family Christmas traditions, on 'Mormon Times TV'
As we approach Christmas this next week, I'm reminded of the holiday traditions we’ve kept up for years while also establishing new ones. They remind me of happy times. Not sure that I “relish” the time it takes to set out the decorations every year, but I always enjoy placing my nutcrackers...
Catholic Community Services honors Uchtdorfs as humanitarians of the year
MR says: “As we help those in distress, our own lives are blessed.” -President Dieter F. Uchtdorf President Dieter F. and Sister Harriet Uchtdorf share more than empathy with refugees. They, too, were displaced from their homes, refugees and eventually, immigrants to the United States. President...
First News from the Saints of Germany After WWII
MR says: A letter from a U.S. soldier and former missionary serving in Frankfurt on the condition of the Saints. Very interesting. John R. Barnes, one-time secretary of the West German Mission, was among the missionaries evacuated from Germany on 25 August 1939, at the opening of World War II. He entered...
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf receives national German award
Praised as a great community leader and aviator, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany during a short ceremony at Church headquarters in Salt Lake City on Oct. 30. The Order of Merit is the highest tribute that the Federal Republic of...
President Monson: A return to beloved land with many cherished memories
MR says: "Each time I visit Germany, whether in the east or the west, I feel I return home a better person." -Pres. Monson At a special meeting with Latter-day Saints in Hamburg on Oct. 13, President Thomas S. Monson said that over the years his wife, Sister Frances J. Monson, has told him she was certain he...
President Monson: Deutschland, ich liebe dich!
MR says: President Monson’s special relationship to Germany goes back several decades to 1968 when he said, “If you will remain true and faithful to the commandments of God, every blessing any member of the Church enjoys in any other country will be yours.” “Deutschland, ich liebe dich”...
Researching Family History: Gathering the genealogy records in Germany that survived World War II
MR says: The account of those who protected genealogy records in Germany, and how they exhumed them after the war. Near the end of World War II in a salt mine near Strassfurt, Germany, Elder Rudolph K. Poecker, a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, put on a miner’s outfit. He...
President Monson to return to his beloved Germany
MR says: The fact that there is a full week between Pres. Monson’s meetings in Berlin and Munich has generated lots of speculation among German Latter-day Saints. Soon after this weekend’s LDS General Conference, church President Thomas S. Monson will be jetting off to Germany, a country that has played...
Teaching Mormonism in Germany as a Non-Mormon
MR says: It's interesting to read about the students' reception and the teacher's "holy envy and criticism" of the Church. Last spring, I taught a course called The Book of Mormon and American Culture at the TU Dortmund University in Dortmund, Germany. It was an elective class and meant for undergraduate...
Rob Bishop: From Mormon missionary to bridge builder with Germany
MR says: After serving his mission in Germany, and since his election to Congress in 2002, Bishop has made 17 trips with members of German parliament. Just four months after taking office, Rep. Rob Bishop found himself in one of Germany’s most famous college towns. Although he’d been there before, it had...
Painting History
MR says: So cool. A story about one man living behind the Iron Curtain and living to see then-Elder Monson's apostolic blessing realized. Now a painting tells the story. Björn Bauerfeind has vivid memories of being a Latter-day Saint in East Germany, where his “faithful parents far behind the Iron...
Ned C. Hill: Revisiting a miracle in Germany
MR says: This week, Mormon Times shares the testimonies of five scholars who are faithful members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I did not grow up in an active LDS home. My stepfather was a very good man who was as honest and hardworking as the day is long. He had picked up some bad...
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