President Monson in Berlin and the Festival of Lights

Sunday was a great day!  First, we were privileged to have President Monson in Berlin to speak to us.  Getting to the stadium was an ordeal though.  We waited at the bus stop for 20 minutes and then they blocked off the road for a marathon that was going through the area.  The Bauman's were with us from Gorlitz, so the 4  of us walked to the bus stop at Zoological Garten and found the buses not running there either.  Our next option was the train.  I knew what the stop was called by the ICC stadium, so we looked for the stop and them figured out what trains to take to get there.  fortunately it wasn't hard.  while waiting for the train, a young man came up to us and said he had been reading the Bible for the last 4 years and had questions about God.  He wanted to know if we could answer his questions.  A few were answered, but we quickly realized he needed more time then we had.  We invited him to come with us to hear the Prophet speak, but he was unable to come.  He gave us his name and address, and phone number and agreed to have the missionaries call.  The missionaries called him late in the afternoon and made an appointment with him to talk.  I know the Lord led us to that particular train station instead of us finding another bus to take. ( Unfortunately, Ibraham got on the internet and read some negative things about Mormon's and canceled his appointment saying he wasn't interested learning about our church.)

On Sunday evening, the 4 of us set out to see the Festival of Lights.  An artist here in Berlin, Phillip Geist, uses diverse architectures in moving, painterly light sculptures which challenges the onlookers' perception of two-and three-dimensionality.  I hope you can see from the pictures a little of the beauty and complexity of his art work.  We thought it was amazing.  The first 5 pictures are of the same building, The Berlin Dome Church.  It took about 10 minutes to watch the whole light show on the church.  It was amazing.  The other pictures were taken at Potdamer Platz.