May 6 Relese from President Kosak

We drove to Berlin Tuesday morning May 6, 2014, expecting to return to our apartment the next weekend and finish cleaning it since we had been told there was no couple available to replace us. Among a crowd of young missionaries we checked out of the mission office then went to the hotel room furnished by the mission.  We all met later for dinner and then went to the President's home for a closing testimony meeting.  As I sat listening to the young missionaries I was thinking that these men had now paid a tithe of their lives to the Lord, 2 years from 20.  Then President Kosak pointed out that Elder Montgomery had also done the same thing; 70 years old and 7 years total on missions.  Kind of cool.

We rejoiced when we were told that Pres. Kosak had decided to send a couple to Hof after all.  Elder and Sister Kunz from Salt Lake City would be in Hof by Thursday so I had to call Angelica Merkel and have her finish the apartment cleaning.  What a good friend to take time from her busy schedule to do that for me.  We met with the Wednesday morning and had a nice visit to brief them on our thoughts about the branch.