171. Article from LDS Living, telling about the Church going into East Germany 25 years ago. Great for Sunday! Modern miracle, and how many more to come as the work hastens?
Group celebrates 25 years of Mormon missionaries crossing divided Germany By Erica Palmer For the Deseret News Published: Friday, June 13 2014 3:00 p.m. MDT Updated: Monday, June 16 2014 7:58 p.m. MDT View 18 photos » The first missionaries to serve in the German Democratic Republic stand outside the Hamburg mission home in March 1989. Craig Miles Summary It has been 25 years since the German Democratic Republic was opened to LDS missionary work. This weekend, former missionaries will once again reunite in Dresden, Germany to commemorate this momentous anniversary. Although it has been 25 years, Elder Wolfgang Paul still clearly remembers the life-changing phone call. It was 10:15 p.m. in January 1989. He was sitting in the mission home in Hamburg in the Federal Republic of Germany, where he had been the mission president for six months. On the other end of the line was President Thomas S. Monson, who was th