Zone Conferences - ZOCO

 


This is a picture from our Berlin Zone Conference.  We had the
north and south zones of Berlin in attendance.  We are in the
South Zone but we attend all of the Zone Conferences to help
feed the missionaries.  
November 5, 2025


This is the Dresden and Leipzig Zone Conference group picture.  
November 4, 2025


We have taken the train on a few trips and are getting more used to it.
We did get on the wrong train late on Friday night and it took
an extra hour to get home by taking trains and a bus.  


This picture was from a couple of weeks ago when we visited
Checkpoint Charlie.  I heard from my dear friend, Bev, who came
through this checkpoint in the 70's with a BYU group and the
soldiers took 3 hours before finally deciding to let them through.  


This is a picture of us in front of our apartment building.  
Our apartment is the top floor in the white part of the building
Those two windows at the top are our entry way and bedroom 
windows.  


On our drive to Dresden (2 1/2 hours from Berlin) we
saw these beautiful trees and lots of open countryside.  


There are some wind powered turbines along the way.


This is the Bahn (train station) in Dresden.


Zone Conference Pics


Our buffet - Sister Christensen and Sister Stephens


Elder Stephens


Sister Moyer - MP Wife


Our speed on the Autobahn - 110 kph in this photo.
Notice the white circle with four diagonal lines through it?
That means that all speed is suspended.
The challenge is that at exits, the speed drops from unlimited
to 120 to 80 to 60 to 50 kph in about 100 yards.  
So WATCH OUT for the blitzers.  


This is Sister Jensen.  She is our Mission Office "Mom".
She goes home the end of November and we will miss her so much.
She is an accomplished pianist and she played a
medley on the piano as her farewell testimony.  We were
all in tears it was so beautiful.


Berlin ZOCO
Sister Stephens, Christensen, Jensen, and Elder Ridges


Elder Stephens and Elder Jensen-clean up crew.




Downtown Berlin


Outside the apartment of Justin, Claire, and Logan Bean.


Logan Bean - adorable


Our friend Naima joined us for dinner at the Bean's.  


Baptisms 8 November 2025
Elder Erickson, Brother Javad Hamreh, Hossein Hami, and Elder Jones


Yasaman (Jasmine) Kavoosi


Prithwiraj Panja


They were baptized at the Dahlem Ward Building.


Our sweet little baptism group.


Elder and Sister Stephens went to a neighborhood Italian Restaurant.
It was very yummy and the atmosphere was fun.


This is Susan Olsen, a member of our Berlin Ward.  She has
lived in the ward for 28 years.  She remembers when Keith
and Kathy Nielsen were missionaries in the ward.  Gary and
I know the Nielsen's from Hyrum very well.  We give our
greetings to them on Sister Olsen's behalf.  


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