9/16/13 WE'RE FAMOUS! [Including Elder Standring's back of head!] Darmstadt YSA Activity Has Press Coverage!

We're Famous!

There were pictures of our mission on the Church News Website

http://www.presse-mormonen.de/artikel/missionare-hauptbahnhof

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150 missionaries at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013 - - Edited by SISTER ALISON SHIPTON

Pedestrians and commuters at the central station in Frankfurt am Main offered on Thursday, 5 September 2013 an unusual sight. Around 150 missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had gathered there.

Farewell and welcome among missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ in Frankfurt am Main.

Missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof.

Change their Location: Missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ on the Frankfurt Central Station.

Every six weeks will determine whether a missionary remains at its previous site of use or if he moves to another city. A few days ago it was called for more young men and women packing bags than ever before in the history of the Frankfurt mission . of the Christian Church Most changed their geographical area of work within the Mission, the parts of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, Thuringia and Franconia comprises. There were 30 new missionaries, an unusually high number of newcomers. From Frankfurt, the missionaries were sent to various cities to meet with people started talking about Jesus Christ to come and the gospel.

"Missionary work is a characteristic feature of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. So it has always been, it always will be," said Thomas S. Monson , president ofThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, while a global conference in April of this year.

When missionaries are men and women who leave their homes and families for 18 or 24 months, to lay testimony of Jesus Christ. Often they operate abroad and to learn a foreign language. They have different social and professional backgrounds. The love for the Christian message unites and empowers them for their task.

Further details of the missionary program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints here .

The author of this blog post is itself a missionary in the Frankfurt Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

And then [on the Frankfurt Mission blog page]:

 http://frankfurtmission.blogspot.de/p/pictures-new.html

This was a big YSA [Young Single Adult] Activity that happened in Darmstadt the day after I got there. Yes, that's the back of my head in the first picture [frohappened in Darmstadt the day after I got there. Yes, that's the back of my head in the first picture [from the activity pictures on the Frankfurt mission blogspot, the 2nd link]. :)

Here's the caption for the photos, from the Mission Blog:
"Darmstadt's Missionary Extravaganza! Hundreds of members went outside and just read the Book of Mormon in a public square. The very sight invoked curiosity from passers-by, and the missionaries and members had the opportunity to hand out copies of the Book of Mormon!"