Comments on: The Way We Were: July 1942 (German edition)

By: Maurine

Maurine — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:32:20 +0000

Steve, it’s great to read your post. It is interesting how the person recording the YM/YW minutes had to tell Part of the story, but not the whole story.

I also jumped on the link to Mark’s post on BCC and read his telegram story. Thanks to you also.

By: Steve C

Steve C — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:36:05 +0000

Aw shucks, Ardis. You’re too kind.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:57:32 +0000

Mark, that was a remarkable post/telegram. Thanks for reminding us, and for identifying the family.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:52:12 +0000

Only when they are the best, coming from the best.

By: Steve C

Steve C — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:51:34 +0000

Ardis:

Sounds like you’re wanting to outsource some of Keepa’s posts.

By: Mark Brown

Mark Brown — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:42:44 +0000

Pres. Burkhardt is the man who sent the telegram described in this post. His son was the missionary who boarded in the basement of my parent's house.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:24:36 +0000

Michelle, that’s wonderful news — I hadn’t heard about it at all, even that such a thing was on the UofU’s radar. You should think about reviewing it … I happen to know a blog that would be interested in posting your review.

By: Michelle Glauser

Michelle Glauser — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:18:29 +0000

Thank you for posting this. For any of you who with further interests in this field, I attended a lecture last week of Raymond Kuehne, a man who served a temple mission in Freiberg several years ago and had his curiosity piqued about the history of the Church in the GDR. He couldn’t believe that no history had been written and began researching and asking questions. President Burkhardt (the temple president) encouraged him to keep doing his research, though many leaders were uncomfortable with his work, especially because they didn’t think an American could write their story. For now, the book has already been published by a press in Leipzig (where I live), with the title Mormonen und Staatsbürger.

I’ve secured a copy and can’t wait to finish reading it. It’s a killer of a book with a good 550 pages. Friends who have read it already say that it’s very honest and well-written. The English version will be published some time in the summer by the University of Utah press. Kuehne lives in Salt Lake City now and gave two copies of his book to President Marlin K. Jensen: one for him and one for President Uchtdorf. A few weeks later, President Jensen called him and said that they “would be interested in seeing a biography of President Burkhardt,” of course not officially endorsing it. Kuehne is working on the biography right now. Very interesting stuff.

By: Edje

Edje — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:14:13 +0000

Great post. Thanks.

By: Mark Brown

Mark Brown — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:58:54 +0000

Thank you for this interesting post. Please take whatever steps are necessary, up to and including corporal punishment, to provide sufficient motivation for the slacker you mentioned to get it in gear. As I read the comments here, It sounds like you, Researcher, and I have a few things in common. It's interesting to read a blog post and see the names of places I served. I was in both the Altona and Bremen wards, and Wilhelmshaven had the reputation of being the dreariest, raniest, most distant place from HQ in the mission. I think I would have loved it there. The elders who served there had a song about the place. The just used the tune and lyrics from Anatevka, from Fiddler on the Roof. They would substitute Wil-helms-hav-en for A-na-tev-ka.