For several months John and I have been working with the facilities team to find new apartments for our Frankfurt Area missionaries. For a real long time, missionaries have lived in the apartments on Portstrasse, next to the old Area Offices and the Stake Center. The Area Offices moved to the Phoenix Haus last year and the Mission Office moved into the old Area Offices here at Portstrasse.
In the meantime, our missionary apartments are getting older and older and the management/landlords haven’t kept up with the maintenance. It’s time for us to go elsewhere, so we’ve been looking and visiting apartment complexes since the first of the year.
We finally found a wonderful place in Bad Homburg, newly built, with enough apartments to accommodate us. For the last few weeks, the church lawyers have been working on the contracts. We signed for the first 3 apartments and our 3 newest missionary couples will move in as soon as they are furnished. The first of the 3 was finished this week and the Feinauers were the first to move. It was a very exciting day.
Here we are at the big “reveal.”
John picked up a few Frankfurter Kranz from the bakery this morning to help us celebrate. These are traditional cakes made to look like a crown.
Soon we will be able to talk about this shift with the rest of the missionaries. It’s an exciting time (as much as we love our cozy little Portstrasse apartment). It will be wonderful to have all of the missionaries living in one complex. Right now we are scattered in several areas, in addition to Portstrasse.
Our Frankfurt Germany Mission 