Germany Berlin Mission 2012-2015: Thoughts and Topics of Teachings of the Past Months

About the Kosak family

Continuing Germany Berlin Mission family 2012-15.

After ten years of service we're back home in Cottbus/Brandenburg.

I work with the youth and YSA in Seminary and Institute in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and in my home stake Dresden/Germany. Sister Kosak quilts, teaches Seminary, and works hard!

We want to continue as Elder Neal A. Maxwell once taught, "God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability."

We love the missionaries who went home as we love those who are still in the mission field.

We can be reached at: kosakhe@ldschurch.org

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Continuing Booklist

Lev Tolstoy: How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Eli Wiesel: Night and Day

Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
John A. Widtsoe: Rational Theology
Flavius Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews
Victor E. Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning
Lev Tolstoy: Resurrection

Simon Wiesenthal: The Sunflower

Tenzing Norkey: Tiger of the Snows
C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity and the Screwtape Letters
ALL NEAL A. MAXWELL Books
Boyd K. Packer: Teach Ye Diligently
Doris K. Goodwin: Team of Rivals
Martin Buber: Tales of the Hasidim
Will & Ariel Durant: The Lessons of History
Ernst Wiechert: Das Einfache Leben
Arbinger Institute: Leadership - Self Deception
Elie Wiesel: Night... also Day

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Victor Hugo: Les Miserables

Antoine de Saint Exupèry: The Little Prince

Winston Churchill: My Early Life

Albert Schweitzer: Wie wir überleben können

Joseph Roth: Job

Simon Montefiore: Stalin .... also Young Stalin
James Barker: Apostasy from the Divine Church

David McCullough: John Adams, Simon and Schuster

Jonah Goldberg:Liberal Fascism:The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change, Broadway

Hugh Nibley: Since Cumorah, Deseret Book

Edward L. Kimball and Andrew E. Kimball, Jr.: Spencer W. Kimball, Bookcraft

Parley P. Pratt: Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, Deseret Book

Leon Uris: Exodus, Doubleday

Herman Wouk: The Hope, Little, Brown

Herman Wouk: The Glory, Little, Brown

Tad R. Callister: The Infinite Atonement, Deseret Book

James E. Talmage: Jesus the Christ, Deseret Book

Joseph F. Smith: Gospel Doctrine, Deseret Book

Stephen E. Ambrose: Undaunted Courage, Simon and Shuster

LeGrand Richards: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder, Deseret Book

Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre: O Jerusalem, Simon and Shuster

Joseph J. Ellis: His Excellency: George Washington, Faber & Faber

Walter Isaacson: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Simon and Shuster

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

Marc Aurel: Selbstbetrachtungen

Theodor Storm: Der Schimmelreiter

Ernest Hemingway: Der Alte Mann und das Meer

Friedrich Hölderlin: Gedichte

Johann Wolfgang von Goether: Faust 1 &2

Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank

Orlando Figes: The Whisperers

I WILL TRUST EVERYONE - Boyd K. Packer

A few years ago I indulged on one occasion in some introspection and found there were reasons why I didn't like myself very well. Foremost among them was the fact that I was suspicious of some I met. I had in mind this thought: "What's his angle? What's he going to try to do?" This came about because I had been badly used by someone I trusted. Cynicism and bitterness were growing within. I determined to change and made a decision that I would trust everyone. I have tried to follow that rule since. If someone is not worthy of trust, it is his responsibility to show it—not mine to find it out.
[Teach Ye Diligently, chapter 12]

Germany Berlin Mission 2012-2015

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Thoughts and Topics of Teachings of the Past Months