Birthday Luncheon with OGC

Each time someone has a birthday in the OGC (office of General Counsel) .... they get to choose where they would like to eat and we all go together....David chose to go to Chicago Meatpackers...a little taste of America!  What a great group of people!  We enjoy each of them so much!  The Robert's are the next to leave and we will be so sad once again😂 We have done a lot with them and they were the ones to get us acclimated to our new surroundings here in Germany.

Christian Wolfert, David & Paula Thomas, Sue & Tony Goodall, Don & Jill Roberts, Janet & Jeff Nelsen, Gudren Drummond, Trudena & Greg Fager, and Oliver Tuebner.

Today, February 20th, 2018 we had a luncheon at a restaurant called SunFlower.  It's actually a garden center with a restaurant in it and we all like it a lot.  So, we gathered together for a going away luncheon for Paula Thomas.  We will all miss Paula and David so much, they are a wonderful addition to our mission family.  I'm glad they only live across the lake from us in Utah and we will be able to visit them!

Below is a picture of Janet Nelsen and Jill Roberts.  Janet is Jeff Nelsen's  wife and he is the lead ALC (Area Legal Counsel) for the Europe area and Tony's boss.  Jill's husband Don also works for the OGC (Jill and Don will be leaving us in April)  .....   Janet is from NYC and Jill is from Idaho.

 Below is Anita Canfield and Carol Nelson.  Anita and Steve have become great friends and we are sad because they will be leaving for Rome to finish out their mission (Feb. 2019) and Carol has only been here a few months.  Her husband is one of the Europe Area doctors.

 Dani Garrett on the left is (with her husband) our zone leaders and they are from S. Carolina.  Diane Van Hoff has been here as long as we have been here and she and her husband work in the IT department and they are from North Carolina.

 Theresa Dewey and her husband are from Bountiful Utah and he is one of the Area psychiatrists.

 Karen Orlowski on the left is from Park City Utah, she and her husband work in public affairs.  Sister Trudena Fager works with the genealogy department and her husband works for the OGC.  They just arrived here a month ago, they are from Utah.

 Cute Marlene Lindsay in the red sweater works as the Welfare Humanitarian Specialists and they arrived shortly after we got here.  Linda Carroll is in the front and she and her husband work as Self Reliance Specialists for the Europe Area.  They are from Australia and will be going home April 2019.

  This is Paula Thomas, dear friend and next door neighbor who will be leaving us March 5th.  She is such a dear person and I love her dearly.  Her husband works for the OGC in contracts and Real Estate matters and Paula has been working on keeping personal histories of people coming and going and also of the refugees that will be kept in the history books of the church.

 We had this picture taken today because, as is tradition, here in the mission......we put together a book of remembrance for the leaving couple.  It contains our thoughts, memories and photos of the couple departing.  We took this picture to put in our portion of their book.  We will miss you both so much and look forward to continuing our friendship when we get home next December!  They are from Orem Utah (not far from our home in Saratoga Springs.)