Ed & Debbie Lamb

Hamburg We spent Monday in the office and took a train on Tuesday to Hamburg. The regional manager for Germany, Florian Titze, joined us for a meeting with Hanseatic Help. This is a wonderful organization that Supports more than 300 non-profit organizations in Hamburg and northern Germany such as homeless shelters, refugee camps, social services,…

MEAL Conference We had a two-day MEAL conference with area humanitarian couples in Frankfurt this week. There are four couples that live in Frankfurt. Other area couples came in from Uzbekistan and Moldova.  Our couple in Türkiye had to join via Zoom because of visa issues.  We each taught a session, we enjoyed team building…

Our Saturday activity was a seven-hour long road trip through four ancestral villages. My (Debbie) second great-grandfather, John W Hess was born in Pennsylvania but with a name like Hess, he obviously had German roots. I imagined all day what it would have been like to live in these villages in the 1600’s. Winningen My…

Our week began with a sweet spiritual experience. Monday morning was a Workforce devotional where we met in the lunchroom with all the area missionaries and employees at the area office and everyone in the field joined remotely. Our speaker was Jonathan Evans Southall. He told the story of being asked to go to Krakow…

Muehlmanns Come to Frankfurt Our infield humanitarian couple for Germany, Austria & Switzerland were in Frankfurt for three days this week. We always look forward to spending time with Elder and Sister Muehlmann. They had Sunday dinner with us at our apartment, came to FHE & choir practice with us on Monday and went out…

This week we prepared three projects to present for approval: Computers for Migrant Women, Bad Homburg, Germany It was a joy to find a project in the town where we live focusing on migrant women who have recently arrived in Germany and are not yet fully integrated. Enie e.V. promotes equal opportunities for women and…

Frankfurt Temple trip & dinner with our welfare and self-reliance team THE HAGUE The office was closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday so after working half day on Thursday we drove to the Netherlands for a four-day Easter weekend. Elder and Sister Mulleck accompanied us. They are from Centerville Utah and joined our team…

We had another busy week in the office. We received five project proposals this week. These are the two we prepared to present for approval: Rome- Italy- Food, Clothing & Hygiene Products for People in Extreme PovertyThe Church’s funding will be used to provide necessities in Comunita Sant’Egidio’s Houses of Friendship. The Houses of Friendship…

Willkommen Fruhling! Shopping is less stressful now that we know there are wider parking spaces specifically designed for women. I choose not to be offended but to be thankful for the extra few inches to squeeze into very tight spaces. Elder Lamb loves to slice his own bread at the grocery store! Lunch with Elder…

On Monday night we had an early Easter potluck FHE with the other senior missionaries, complete with ham and funeral potatoes. Alaska Reunions On Tuesday night we picked up Janae Purcella Rhoden from the airport and went to dinner. She was in Frankfurt overnight on the way to meet her husband in Hanover. Janae is…