Email from member in Bautzen, Germany

I had also meant to include this email we received this morning from a member in Bautzen that worked with Scott (Elder Henderson) in the missionary efforts over there. I meant to post it with the other entry, but I forgot. Here it is:

Dear Henderson family,
 My name is brother Lentfoehr and since I’m our branch’s missionary president, I had the pleasure and the special privilege to co-work with your son and with his companions in his first missionary area in Germany, which is close to the Czech (about 20 miles) and Polish (about 30 miles) border. 

Last week Elder Henderson left our area for Kiel, a city in the North of Germany, not far to the Danish border, because of a transfer. That means he had to cross Germany from the South East to the North East (about 400 miles). 

While he served in our ward I got to know him as a very hard-working, open-minded, diligent, enthusiastic, companionable and pleasant Missionary. 

He arrived here as a “Golden” and was warmly welcomed in our ward several months before. Since one of our prophets once said: “Every member a Missionary” I always teach our branch members to treat and welcome every Missionary as a member. This is my special opinion about Missionary work and as a convert I know that the Missionaries can find people but the members in the branch/ward have to give them a home. When Elder Henderson arrived here, he said, his German language was bad (but it wasn’t). Every time we met again, I asked him: “How is your German now?”. It was always a pleasure to see how hard he was/is working on it. I learned that we really had a very special person serving the Lord and us in this region. 

Of course we got a new Elder here in exchange, but we feel a little sad about Elder Henderson going North. He will always be welcome at our homes and so will his family! Our younger son, Nils, is also serving a Mission in Switzerland right now. I think a Mission is the best way to serve the Lord in these special times. The other day, we met a sister from the Brescia ward in Italy and she said, that these young people, aged about 20, give a very special kind of tithing to the Lord, by serving 10 percent of their lives and there won’t be a similar chance to do so in any other way and time. That really impressed me a lot, because it is so true! So far for now. Please excuse my poor English! Thank you for sending your son to our country.If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask me! Very kind regards Frank-Michael Lentföhr

We thought it was pretty cool to hear from someone in the branch there. Very much appreciated!