Today was our employee and missionary luncheon at the Church Office Bldg. We have a devotional speaker who is usually one of the church authorities, as was the case today. Our International floor was sitting together on one table. On my table was our missionary Hans Arndt. I told the others about a little story from long ago that Elder Arndt had told me and my coworkers told me, "You need to put that on your blog for safe keeping". And so here I am doing that.
Here is the little story. My dad, Heinz Hoeke grew up in Freiberg, Sachsen and shortly after the war worked at a printshop there. About that time Hans Arndt's family in Berlin sent him to live with friends in Freiberg. He stayed right across the street from my dad and in fact at the relatives of my dad's, the Henkels. Hans told me one day that my father's mother asked him to take a warm lunch to my dad at his place of work. Now after all these years he came to work as a missionary at the Library and got to know me and reacquainted himself with my dad who also comes to the Library to do private research for clients. It is a really small world and you never know when you will run into people that you knew from so long ago...I think it is really cool!
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