Elder Ballard's Visit to the Mission!

On September 12, the entire Frankfurt mission (288 missionaries, including senior couples) came together for a special meeting with Elder M. Russell Ballard!

Elder Ballard leads the missionaries in a round of "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes."

Elders Christenson and Checketts!

Biggest Leavers' group in history!

(recorded history, that is.)  Thirty missionaries finished their missions last Friday and went home.  We will miss them!

New Goldens!

Last week we had twenty-one new missionaries show up at the Frankfurt Flughafen! (that's the airport.)  Here they are, with their trainers and areas.

Elder Summerhays and Elder Miller in Gelsenkirchen

Elder Peiffer and Elder Nelson in Feucht

Elder Mayne and Elder Shelley in Werdau

Elder Roberts and Elder Boam in Ansbach

Elder Wright and Elder Taylor in Gera

Elder Lehmitz and Elder Rock in Münster

Elder Tinker and Elder Seamons in Euskirchen

Sister Hall and Sister Young in Düsseldorf

Elder Ninow and Elder Kalt in Mönchengladbach

Sister Sherwood and Sister Lehman in Mannheim

Elder Fitzgerald and Elder Stout in Mannheim

Elder Asay and Elder James in Darmstadt

Elder Nielsen and Elder Heil in Darmstadt

Sister Williams and Sister McMurray in Herne

Sister Wahlquist and Sister Madsen in Nürnberg

Elder Jack and Elder Harrison in Aachen

Sister Teeples and Sister Heywood in Münster

Elder Wells and Elder Taylor in Saarbrücken

Elder Clement and Elder James in Solingen

Elder Andrus and Elder Penrod in Usingen

Elder Weidmann and Elder Arnesen in Offenbach

Newest Members of the Mission

We're proud to announce the newest newcomers to the mission: President and Sister Stoddard, our new mission president and his wife, and Sister Eschenmann, our newest Sister missionary.

The Mission President information will be updated soon.

We are excited to work with Sister Eschenmann for the next 18 months and with President and Sister Stoddard for the next 3 years!

President and Sister Stoddard are from Orem, UT and Sister Eschenmann is from southwestern France.

Another round of Goldens!

The latest set of excited new Elders and Sisters arrived here on Wednesday morning and were paired with their trainers on Thursday morning.  Here are their pictures!

Elder Rodgers and Elder Windhorst

Elder Pratt and Elder Werber

Elder Swan and Elder Cloward

Elder Christensen and Elder Bean

Elder Noorda and Elder Gajdos

Elder Lewis and Elder Brown

Elder Ostler and Elder Meinhardt

Elder Cole and Elder Basinger

Elder Lake and Elder Ireton

Elder Robinson and Elder Brown

Elder Trippe and Elder Hobson

Elder Barney and Elder Frickey

Elder Von Wallwitz and Elder Turley

Elder Christenson and Elder Checketts

Elder Andrew and Elder Arts

Elder Standring and Elder Tischner

Elder Bishop and Peatross

Elder Gerrat and Elder Beverlin

Elder Kitchen, Elder Lovelace, and Elder McGinn

Sister Clendon and Sister Oliphant

Sister Diethelm and Sister Gardner

BONUS: Check out these pictures from Elder Checketts' (left) and Elder Christenon's (right) past life!

Hip new invitation videos from the Mainz ward

The Mainz ward has recently put together these new videos as a way to help members invite friends to church.  Check them out!

They're in German, though; sorry parents!