Anne Frank & German Friend

Two weeks seem to fly by now, that when I blink it seems like another two weeks has come and gone. June 19th was a day of remembrance for Chris and I. We woke up and started our day with a bbq with friends from our ward and friends from Idaho, the Gugglemans had come to Germany to teach a photography group. Travis Guggleman had served his mission in Germany and with how small this world is he served in the Bremen Ward that we go to. It was so nice to see a familiar face and be able to talk with them what was even cooler was that he asked if Chris and I would come and model for them as he taught the group!!!! I was so excited. So after the bbq we were heading to Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp we had the missionaries with us and they came along with us for p day. A little history of Bergen Belsen was that this camp wasnt an extermenation camp, it was just a holding camp. but one of the worse holding camps there was they said still around 30,000 people were killed here from starvation, and disease. Also this camp is were Anne Frank was sent to, and died in this camp. Anne Frank was an amazing girl who died at the age of 15 they figured she died four or five days before the camp was liberated. To read her words and how she really looked at the world at a whole different level, was amazing. To think if she would of survived what potential she would of had. What she could of been and done. Bergen Belsen was burned by the English soldiers and now what is there is mass graves. It has a building of pictures and a movie that just litteraly takes the words from your mouth and makes you bow your head in sorrow to see how the bodies and the conditions were. Outside like I said mass graves cover the outside area. They have a tombstone for Anne Frank and her sister Margo but its just for remembrance they are buried in one of the mass graves. They also had a Russian POW cemetary which thousands of russians died to. In each mass grave contained from 1000 to 5000 bodies. This day was a very eye opening day and in the words of Anne Frank, "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"




So I thought I would introduce all my blogging friends to my German friends. Lena, Marlene and Stephan. These guys are truly have been my best friends since chris and I have been here. We have done so much together and I will seriously have a hard time saying goodbye this is us at Pizza Hut here Marlene is the bleach blonde and Lena is in the ponytail both there boyfriends are named Stephan. but Marlene's boyfriend is going to school so he wasnt able to come. We also went to a world cup party and watched Germany defeat Ghana. Wow what a crazy thing all the people are dressed up and the come and watch it projected live. It was so much fun we got there and in less then two minutes we had german flags on our face and a German Hula necklace around my neck. Here are our German Friends......






My computer is taking to long to bring up pictures of this last weekend so I will update last weekend later. Everyday we cant believe how lucky we are to be here and to be able to experience this. We are so grateful for were we are and what we have done and the people that have helped us along the way. Until next time.....