Tony continues with the work of the Office of General Counsel which has included helping full time younger missionaries get their visa permits for residency. Some of the countries are imposing stricter rules for people entering the countries and much stricter rules for getting residency permits which is necessary for a missionary to live in any other country besides there home country longer than 90 days. This keeps him especially busy. One situation was interesting where a young man had dual residency. His home land and the country in which he was called to serve..... The country in which he was called to serve required (all of a sudden) that he register for military duty! I know that the attorney's worked long hours trying to help this young man with this situation. My duties have taken me 7 months to bring the finance department up to date on a backlog of 8 months of Priesthood leadership travel requests. I worked hard to get them caught up so that analysis could be done on these requests. I will now start January 2018 which will be a lot easier than trying to catch them up on 8 months of backlog work. We continue to be thankful for our assignments and have enjoyed very much mingling with all the wonderful people serving here. A regular week might look like this: Monday morning at 8:30 we attend devotional and prayer meeting in the chapel (150 steps for our apartment), then we head to the office (right next door) to begin our work day. Tuesday's in the afternoon, Sister Enger comes and teaches a German culture and language class to those who can attend. Wednesdays at noon we attend a Book of Mormon discussion led by one of the 46 senior missionaries that serve here with us. We have some great discussions! Thursdays at 10am the sisters meet in a conference room for CTR (conference talk review) where we take a talk from General conference and read and discuss the council that we receive from our General Authorities. We also have birthday celebrations and luncheons for senior missionaries that are leaving to go home and for the new ones arriving to take their places. In between all these activities, we work! The weekends are free to visit and go on adventures as we please. We have a 500 kilometer radius that we are aloud to travel within. That allows us to go to Paris and Prague and Berlin, Switzerland and Austria and the Netherlands and so many other places. It's a great mission we've been called to and such a wonderful experience for us at this time in our lives. We will always look back on this adventure with so much fondness.
Below is a picture of Phil and Doreen Lear from Park City and New Port Beach, both places they call home. We went out to Bad Homburg for dinner with them one evening and had a wonderful time. They have been called to work in records preservation for the church.
This picture below is one evening when we went to see the movie, "The Greatest Showman" with LeAnna and Jay Steinekert. Jay is a licensed therapist for the young missionaries and LeAnna is editor of the Wegweiser and also in charge of managing the missionary apartments. They are from Highland Utah and will be going home in August.
I snapped this picture of Tony leaving our apartment (the door down the hall with all the hearts on it from the Young Woman in the ward that decorated all the missionaries doors with hearts.....they call it a "heart attach" .......
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