Dresden Mission: Connect and Reflect

Elder John Parrett, January 1992-March 1994

John recalls some wonderfully funny, vivid, and poignant memories of serving in many cities throughout the Dresden Mission. Enjoy, and be sure to enjoy to the end as he shares some new and exciting details about one of our Dresden Mission cities.  For photos John has shared from his mission service including current service, click here [https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EuNniffr5/?mibextid=wwXIfr] If you wish to be interviewed for this project, please contact me at Dresden Mission Connect and Reflect Podcast [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093854479543] on Facebook. Update your contact information, find old friends and companions, and much more on the Dresden/Leipzig mission alumni page at Treffpunkt Deutschland Mission Dresden/Leipzig [https://leipzig.swelter.net/] Returned Dresden missionaries, click here for more information about the Church History Library and information about sharing your documents, photos, or oral histories from your service in the Dresden Mission [https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/content/library/gifts-and-donations?lang=eng]. The Church’s policy on public access to donated personal history items can be read here [https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/content/library/access?lang=eng]. To communicate to someone directly about donating your mission materials, contact James Miller: jamiller@churchofjesuschrist.org.

Katja Dürr Schiele, convert member (1992), Leipzig Gemeinde I

Katja was born in 1978 in Leipzig as the 2nd of 4 children to a stay-at-home mother and Electrical Engineering student father.  She enjoyed a normal, happy childhood full of outdoor activities. She experienced die Wende as a pre-teen and teenager and gives a unique perspective of life during this time. Her family was introduced to the Church 2 1/2 years after the fall of the Wall. Hear how life has come full circle for her.  See photos she has shared from her childhood and her family's introduction to the Church here [https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18MiAnHWR3/?mibextid=wwXIfr].   If you wish to be interviewed for this project, please contact me at Dresden Mission Connect and Reflect Podcast [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093854479543] on Facebook. Update your contact information, find old friends and companions, and much more on the Dresden/Leipzig mission alumni page at Treffpunkt Deutschland Mission Dresden/Leipzig [https://leipzig.swelter.net/] Returned Dresden missionaries, click here for more information about the Church History Library and information about sharing your documents, photos, or oral histories from your service in the Dresden Mission [https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/content/library/gifts-and-donations?lang=eng]. The Church’s policy on public access to donated personal history items can be read here [https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/content/library/access?lang=eng]. To communicate to someone directly about donating your mission materials, contact James Miller: jamiller@churchofjesuschrist.org.

Elder Craig Miles, Germany Hamburg Mission Nov 1987 - March 1989, German Democratic Republic Dresden Mission March 1989 - November 1989

After 14 months in the Germany Hamburg Mission, in March of 1989 Elder Craig Miles received a transfer to become one of the first missionaries into the German Democratic Republic. He experienced a wide range of unique experiences including traveling back and forth through Checkpoint Charlie, being tailed by the Stasi, witnessing some of the earliest Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig during the fall of 1989, and seeing the final May 1st parade through East Berlin. And of course the highlight of his time was getting to know the strong members of the Church in the GDR and seeing the light of gospel touch many lives. See photos and descriptions of many of these events here [https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1GVwaVK5PV/?mibextid=wwXIfr].  If you wish to be interviewed for this project, please contact me at Dresden Mission Connect and Reflect Podcast [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093854479543] on Facebook. Update your contact information, find old friends and companions, and much more on the Dresden/Leipzig mission alumni page at Treffpunkt Deutschland Mission Dresden/Leipzig [https://leipzig.swelter.net/] Returned Dresden missionaries, click here for more information about the Church History Library and information about sharing your documents, photos, or oral histories from your service in the Dresden Mission [https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/content/library/gifts-and-donations?lang=eng]. The Church’s policy on public access to donated personal history items can be read here [https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/content/library/access?lang=eng]. To communicate to someone directly about donating your mission materials, contact James Miller: jamiller@churchofjesuschrist.org.

Sister Stephanie Murphy (McGuire) December 1989 - September 1991

Stephanie Murphy McGuire always wanted to serve a mission and hoped and planned for a mission to Germany. Initially called to Hamburg, her call was switched in an unusual way while in the MTC. Listen as she describes this and many other fun and inspiring stories from her service. Click here [https://www.facebook.com/share/p/X3PD7qKofMUWE69F/?mibextid=WC7FNe]to see photos she has shared.  If you wish to be interviewed for this project, please contact me at Dresden Mission Connect and Reflect Podcast [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093854479543] on Facebook. Update your contact information, find old friends and companions, and much more on the Dresden/Leipzig mission alumni page at Treffpunkt Deutschland Mission Dresden/Leipzig [https://leipzig.swelter.net/] Returned Dresden missionaries, click here for more information about the Church History Library and information about sharing your documents, photos, or oral histories from your service in the Dresden Mission [https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/content/library/gifts-and-donations?lang=eng]. The Church’s policy on public access to donated personal history items can be read here [https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/content/library/access?lang=eng]. To communicate to someone directly about donating your mission materials, contact James Miller: jamiller@churchofjesuschrist.org.

Elder Matt Jensen, Germany Hamburg Mission August 1988 - August 1989, German Democratic Republic Dresden Mission August 1989 - August 1990

Matt Jensen grew up hoping to serve a mission to Germany, the same as his father and grandfather had. Initially called to serve in the Germany Hamburg Mission, he details what it was like in the Hamburg mission, including crossing over the inner German border on the train to and from West Berlin for transfers and zone conferences. He also shares details of what it was like to be transferred into the German Democratic Rebuplic Dresden Mission during the summer of 1989 and the many experiences of his year of missionary service in the Dresden Mission. To see photos Matt has shared, click here [https://www.facebook.com/share/p/bY8PXpd89EzusirN/?mibextid=WC7FNe] If you wish to be interviewed for this project, please contact me at Dresden Mission Connect and Reflect Podcast [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093854479543] on Facebook. Update your contact information, find old friends and companions, and much more on the Dresden/Leipzig mission alumni page at Treffpunkt Deutschland Mission Dresden/Leipzig [https://leipzig.swelter.net/] Returned Dresden missionaries, click here for more information about the Church History Library and information about sharing your documents, photos, or oral histories from your service in the Dresden Mission [https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/content/library/gifts-and-donations?lang=eng]. The Church’s policy on public access to donated personal history items can be read here [https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/content/library/access?lang=eng]. To communicate to someone directly about donating your mission materials, contact James Miller: jamiller@churchofjesuschrist.org.