Frankfurt Temple

I love to see the temple.  I'm going there  . . . TOMORROW.  To the temple in Frankfurt, that is - which isn't actually IN Frankfurt: it's about 1/2 hour north.

I chose these photos because I think you can see a bit of Germany around the temple, to place it in its context.

We invited Elder Karl-Heinz and Sister Virginia Goeckeritz to dinner on Dienstag (Tuesday) this week.  They are serving a family history mission here.  They told us of some interesting experiences they've had with finding cool stuff about their own families' histories in East Germany while serving.  
 

After the Freiberg Temple was built in then-East Germany, church leaders asked their members to bring their genealogy - Books of Remembrance filled with pedigree charts and family group sheets - to the temple for safe keeping.  Apparently, there was some concern that such papers and documents might be confiscated or destroyed.  The members were promised that any temple ordinances that had not yet been completed WOULD be done for them.  So, the members complied and boxes of genealogy have been stored at the temple ever since.

The Goeckeritz assignment is to go through those old books: look up every name on every sheet in the new LDS Family Search website and determine if everyone in the books is listed and see if  all their work has been done.  LONG hours at keyboards, meticulous labor.  They have completed thousands of pages.  One day, working with one family group sheet, they found six children in the family had not been entered into the computer.  After reuniting that family, Sister G. turned the paper over to put it in the 'DONE' pile and found her OWN grandmother's name on the back!  She had just found lost cousins.

Experiences like that are happening daily as missionaries work as 'Saviors on Mt Zion' in Germany.