Ed & Debbie Lamb

We arrived in Germany eight weeks ago and this is only the second full week we have spent in the office. It was good to dig in and get some work done. Besides our regular meetings, we worked with our three infield couples in Spain to present five of their projects for approval. One was…

October 3rd is a public holiday in Germany- German Unity Day. It commemorates German reunification in 1990 when the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) joined the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). Since our office in Frankfurt was closed on Thursday we drove five hours to Belgium for a long weekend. BRUGES We stayed in…

We spent Monday and Tuesday working in the office in Frankfurt. It’s hard to describe the intensity of our office work. First, there are four couples in an open space working on computers.  When we take calls, we use headphones.  Sometimes we are all talking at once and it can feel very chaotic.  On any…

Due to visa restrictions, we are limited to spending 90 days in Türkiye out of every 180 days. Including travel time, we added another four days to our tally this week. We flew to Ankara on Sunday evening with our manager Eric for some important meetings. On Monday morning we met with Mr. Omur at…

There are currently 38 senior missionary couples serving in the Area office in Frankfurt. They serve as support staff for the area presidency & infield services, medical & mental health advisors, records preservationists, military relations, communications specialists, family history & young single adult support, church history specialists, legal counsel, temple missionaries, family services specialists, auditors,…

Last Tuesday morning we took a 3 ½ hour flight to Ankara, Turkiye. Turkiye is one of the nine countries we have responsibility for. Elder and Sister Huber (the couple we are replacing) met us at the airport in Ankara and we were introduced to our Turkish interpreter Meric Fiserk. On Wednesday we hit the…

We were welcomed to Frankfurt on Tuesday by the Lewis’s and Stoker’s who drove us to our apartment in Bad Homburg, 18 km north of the city. Our apartment is beautiful and brand new. The missionaries who prepared it thought of everything, including filling our fridge with staples to get us through the first few…

We have completed our 10-day training at the MTC in Provo, Utah. It is hard to describe in words what we experienced. As we drove into the parking lot, young missionaries stood outside and clapped and cheered for us. They were on hand to escort us to our Orientation. There were 2,600 young missionaries (ages…

We have been called to serve in the Europe Central Area as Welfare/Self Reliance Humanitarian Missionaries We begin our service on August 5th, 2024 and will serve for 18 months. Our Home base will be Frankfurt, Germany.

LOS ULTIMOS DAYS OF OFFICE TRAINING We had several days in the office with Layton’s bringing them up to speed on current humanitarian projects, walking them through the process, reviewing files in CHaS, TEAMS, and SHAREPOINT, teaching them how to create requisitions, budgets, and project development worksheets. The learning curve is steep- we remember well.…