Initial Board meeting of the South German Mission Foundation held at the law offices of Robert B. Sykes, 311 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Board members attending, Larry Anderson, President, Richard Terry. 1st Vice President, Scott Anderson, 2nd Vice President, Robert B. Sykes, Secretary/Treasurer, Bruce Miller, Beverly Glover, Stephen G. Schwendiman.

“The Articles of Incorporation were briefly reviewed, explained and signed by [Robert B.] Sykes, [Stephen G.] Schwendiman and [Larry] Anderson.” [Emphasis added] First “modern reunion” sponsored by the Foundation was planned

President Orville Gunther “is very pleased with the idea [for the foundation], but wants it known that it wasn’t his idea and that he’s not the impetus behind it. At this point, Robert Sykes and Larry Anderson explained that it was their idea to film President Gunther and that the suggestion of the SGMF came from them and not from President Gunther. It was also pointed out that President Gunther had virtually no role in any SGMF plans or activities, other than to suggest his general approval with the idea of promoting brother and sisterhood among former SGM missionaries.”

“Larry Anderson and Robert Sykes spent approximately 8 hours interviewing President Gunther about his life and the SGM, in order to preserve this record for his missionaries and his family.”

“It was reported and agreed by all present that President [Hartman] Rector was much beloved by the missionaries for his service to the SGM...It was agreed by all present that we should invite President Rector to be a part of all future reunions, if he would like the opportunity and to speak at them.”

South German Mission Reunion with annual German Mission Foundation meeting Reunion and Foundation meeting held at UVSC Institute Building, Orem, Utah
Co-chairs for reunion: Scott Anderson and Nevin Limburg

Foundation report:
Election of officers
Report on the Foundation newsletter - Stephen Schwendiman
Report on the Foundation Website - Bruce Miller
President’s remarks - Larry Anderson
Guest speaker for the evening: President Orville C. Gunther

Board Members attending: Richard Terry, Robert B. Sykes, Mary Gunther Miller, Bruce Miller, Nevin R. Limburg, Paul M. Tinker.
Meeting held at the law offices of Robert B. Sykes, 311 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah.

“Paul Tinker agreed to chair a subcommittee to get the 501(c)(3) tax status for the SGMF.
“Suggested that Jack Welch be asked to chair the fund-raising committee and to develop a plan to raise money.”
Bruce Miller gave a report on President Gunther. “He is very aware of our SGMF efforts and sent the message ‘continue on.’”
Bruce Miller stated that “someone needs to pick up and run with this website development, as Bruce needs to phase out his activity on this. Nevin [Limburg] agreed to contact Raymond Messervy who may take this over.”
Bruce Miller gave a report on the bank account with the beginning amount of $1,007 in the account.

South German Mission Reunion with annual South German Mission Foundation meeting.
Reunion and meeting held at the UVSC Institute of Religion, Orem, Utah
Co-Chairs of Reunion: Larry Anderson, Beverly Glover, and Stephen Schwendiman

Membership report given to attendees
Fundraising discussion held with members
Video Presentation given on Sister Gunther
Remarks by President Orville Gunther
Guest speaker was Elder Hartman Rector, Jr.

Board Members attending: Steven Tuft, Paul Tinker, Larry Anderson, Richard Terry, Stephen Schwendiman, Jack Welch, Robert Sykes.
New Board members approved but not present: Larry Maloy, Alan Bradbury, Kim Nelson.
Meeting held at the law offices of Robert B. Sykes, 311 South State Street, Salt Lake City

Reviewed the recent history of the Foundation and how it obtained tax-fee status under I.R.C.
501(c)(3). David Lyon (‘67-69), and attorney, was very helpful.
The Foundation’s “original application was turned down because it focused on the social aspect, etc. We made it clear on a supplemental application that the Foundation would not officially be involved in social activities as an entity...The Foundation will focus only on fundraising and charitable items that are consistent with its newly-granted tax-free status.”
Jack Welch presented “ideas of charitable activities that could be accomplished by the SGMF...Jack pointed out that one of the great needs for German Saints is access to written materials and publications that Church members in America take for granted very little has been published in the German language.
Jack suggested that “the book entitled ‘Latter-day Christianity - 10 Frequently Asked Questions,’ By Robert L. Millet and Noel B. Reynolds” would be a good one to translate and publish.
“Larry Anderson knows a former missionary who has a very large publishing company located in Utah County, who would certainly be competent to have this book printed. Apparently, he has a division in Germany.”
“Jack Welch and Larry Anderson were assigned to investigate the additional costs involved in taking the translated works and getting them printed in the German language. Larry will contact the missionary with the publishing company.”
Steve Tuft contributed significantly to the discussion on the necessity of maintaining two accounts.
Steve Schwendiman will develop an publish a newsletter containing a repot on Foundation activities and projects.
“Larry Anderson will work on developing a website for the Foundation.”

Board members attending: Steven Tuft, Paul Tinker, Larry Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman, Jack Welch, Robert Sykes, Larry Maloy.
Meeting held at the law offices of Robert B. Sykes, 311 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah

“Steve Schwendiman volunteered to call John Fetzer who was the mission president who preceded President Gunther to see if he has the addresses of any of the ‘lost’ missionaries that we are still looking for to make our list more complete. Paul Tinker will continue to work with Karla Stigelmeyer to find additional ones.”
“Larry Anderson agreed to host a website. He will design and maintain this website. Several possibilities were discussed. The one chosen by the Board was ‘ldsdeutschmissionaries.’”
“Larry Anderson will work on developing a logo for a letterhead.”
“If we are successful in raising the money we hope to raise, there will be many future projects that the Foundation can accomplish. Jack Welch will begin working on these projects and will make additional suggestions.”
“Larry Maloy will contact each board member to determine which 10 missionaries they will contact for fund-raising purposes.”

Board Members present: Steven Tuft, Larry Anderson, Larry Maloy, Kim Nelson, Robert Sykes, Jack Smith (by telephone), Richard Terry.
Meeting held at the law offices of Robert B. Sykes, 311 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah.
* “The website is ‘ldsdeutchmissionaries.org.’ This will be the website for all that wish to assist in our fundraising and charitable projects. This is not limited to South German missionaries, but all German missionaries are encouraged to participate.”
Richard Terry reported that...we have about $2,500 and change in the account...We need at least $3,00 to start. Jack presented a couple of options...It was moved and seconded that we proceed with the translation and typesetting of the ‘10 Questions’ pamphlet, and have the Board guaranteed the amount.”
“Steve Tuft asked who would do the translating. Jack replied that the are several on hand to do this work, all of them German natives attending BYU or living in the area. All of them are quite competent.”

Board Members present: Steven Tuft, Larry Anderson (President), Larry Maloy, Kim Nelson, Robert Sykes (Secretary), Jack Welch, Richard Terry (Treasurer), Nevin Limburg, Alan Bradbury, Stephen Schwendiman, Scott Anderson (Vice-President), David Lyon.
Meeting held at the Utah Valley State College Institute of Religion preceding annual reunion. 785 West College Drive, Orem, Utah

“Beverly Glover was released from the Board of Trustees with a vote of thanks, and she had requested that her name be removed. Previously, her husband, Steve Glover, was appointed a member of the Board.”
“David Lyon, working with Steve Tuft, had graciously organized a new organization to run the reunion. This required four members of the Board of Trustees. The following volunteered and were approved by the Board of Trustees: Richard Terry, David Lyon, Robert Sykes, and Steve Tuft.”

“Larry Anderson reported that the translation of the books in question has been turned over to an LDS German group in Germany instead of FARMS. Progress is being made. Jack Welch estimated that we will have the finished product in about six months...We anticipate that the books will also be printed in Germany.”

It was moved and seconded that we change the name of the organization (i.e., a dba), as far as the public is concerned, to ‘German Speaking Mission Foundation,’ or ‘GSMF.’ It was felt that if the name was changed, as moved by Kim Nelson, we would have much broader appeal, and could certainly expect to get far more by way of contributions...The official name of the organization, the ‘South German Mission Foundation’ will remain the same.”

South German Mission Reunion and annual South German Mission Foundation meeting.
Reunion and Foundation meeting held at the UVSC Institute of Religion, Orem, Utah.
Co-chairs of Reunion: Kim W. Nelson and Richard C. Terry.

Foundation report was given at the meeting
President Orville Gunther addressed the missionaries
President John Fetzer, former mission President before President Gunther was in attendance and spoke to the missionaries

South German Mission Reunion and annual South German Mission Foundation meeting. (No known minutes).
Reunion and Foundation meeting held at UVSC Institute of Religion, Orem, Utah
Co-chairs of reunion: Larry Anderson and Stephen Schwendiman

Business meeting of the foundation and vote of officers

Tribute to Sister Betha Gunther who passed away since last reunion

Bob Sykes had DVDs about Sister Gunther’s life that were available

Jack Welch spoke to the missionaries about what was taking place in gospel study

Board Members present: Larry Anderson, President, Robert Sykes, Secretary, Stephen Schwendiman, Steven Glover, Beverly Glover.
Meeting held at law offices of Robert B. Sykes 311 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Richard Terry was released as Treasurer at his request with Steven Glover elected unanimously and will be assisted by his wife, Beverly Glover
Scott Anderson has changed employment location to the South Jordan Institute where reunions can be held
Bob Sykes reported a face-to-face meeting with Elder Uchtdorf with an invitation to speak at reunion.
Agreed that future reunions will include Gardner, Fetzer, Gunther and Peterson missionaries.
Board agreed that the best use of foundation money would be to maintain a website with positive information in German, not found from more traditional sources.
Elder Uchtdorf told Larry Anderson that Seminaries and Institutes do not need books as they are well funded
Need to find a webmaster who is fluent in German and English who could watch over and update the web site.
Larry Anderson offered the server that he uses in his business to host the website
The Board agreed that one possibility for translations was articles from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Jack Welch could make arrangements to get permission to translate the articles.

Board Members present: Larry Anderson, President, Scott Anderson, Vice President, Steven Glover, Treasurer, Stephen Schwendiman, Larry Maloy, Kim Nelson, Paul Tinker, Steven Tuft.
Meeting held at the offices of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

The Board decided that to get the Foundation working there needed to be more meetings which would be held in September, October and November at noon.
It was agreed that David Lyon would be an Ex-officio member of he board to help with legal matters.
No one was located to act as webmaster since the last meeting It was agreed that for the website to be effective there needed to be German material ready to place on it once it was established
Jack Welch had offered to have the “Encyclopedia of Mormonism” available for translation.
The booklet “Latter-day Christianity” put out by FARMS was also offered for translation purposes.
Another suggestion was the book “True to the Faith” although the Church might translate it.
Stephen Schwendiman indicated that he would contact the Church’s Intellectual Reserve about translating material.
Larry Anderson will make an attempt to find a web-master since he already has the name reserved
Steven Glover indicated there are several German members in his ward who might be willing to do translation for the Foundation
At future meetings guidelines should be set regarding what the Foundation funds should be used for.
The Board agreed that the focus at this point of time should be translating material into German so that large amounts of material could be accessible by German speaking peoples.

Board members attending: Larry Anderson, Larry Maloy, Kim Nelson, Steven Glover, Stephen Schwendiman.
Meeting held at the business office of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

Larry Anderson made arrangements for use of a “Bridge Line” so that if one cannot attend future meetings in person one can call in and be a part of the meeting.
Even though the suggestion was made to hold future meetings only by phone it was agreed by the board that in-person meetings would be more meaningful and more would be accomplished.
Steven Glover indicated that through his ward members he would be able to locate Germans who could do translations at a minimal fee. They are ready to begin when the Foundation is ready
Larry Anderson indicated that he could find some webmaster but it was decided to see if a member of the Church could be located so that the person would be familiar with Church doctrine and issues.
Schwendiman indicated that Jack Welch said the booklet “True to the Faith” had already been translated into German so that was not an option
Jack Welch provided an email from Erwin Roth in Salzburg. Elder Roth is an Area Authority Seventy who has a translation and printing service and provided information regarding possibilities of items that could be translated. FARMS and BYU Studies were in negotiations with Roth.
Again the booklet “Latter-day Christianity” was discussed as a proper booklet to translate as long as approval was given by FARMS.
Members would look to see if there were materials in German that were already ready and could be placed on our website if it was available.
The Board agreed that the Statement of use of funds should be “Translate English material into German and provide them on the website for German access.
Kim Nelson, Bob Sykes and Stephen Schwendiman agreed to put the next reunion together where Scott Anderson works and that a meal would be provided.
The Foundation needs a product available to show everyone at the next reunion.
Both Elder Uchtdorf and Elder David Bednar, a Peterson missionary would be contacted.

Board Members present: Kim Nelson, Larry Maloy, Larry Anderson, Steven Glover, Jack Welch, and Stephen Schwendiman.
The meeting was held by conference call and was not in person

Steven Glover reported that a Brother Rahde had the booklet “Latter-day Christianity” and was translating it, but had not completed it yet.
Others were suggested for translating: Heinz , James Lyon, and Walter Seidel. John Fowels.
Several could do rough translations and then have the material reviewed by others.
Jack Welch obtained approval from FARMS to translate the booklet “Latter-day Christianity.”
Larry Anderson said he found that Don Oldham, a former Fetzer missionary owned a company that could do the work and be responsible for the website. He will contact Don. Kim Nelson contacted Elder David Bednar who indicated that he was “unaware of any efforts or listing of those missionaries” under President Peterson but said he would like to be kept informed.
Larry Maloy contacted James Backman who spearheaded the reunion under Fetzer the year before.
“Jack Welch read an email received from Elder Bruce C. Hafen who indicated that they were still interested with getting the Encyclopedia of Mormonism on the Web.”
“Jack Welch mentioned that Hans Kelling had already started translating it and about 1/3 had been complete. Jack indicated that most of which was translated was ‘Kirchen Berichte’ which left the other areas for translation yet to be done.”

Board members present: Stephen Schwendiman, Steven Glover. Other Board members were not present on the conference call.
The meeting was held by conference call, but due to mis-messaging, the number was wrong and only two were able to attend
* “Steven Glover reported that the booklet ‘Latter-day Christianity’ has been completed, the citations checked and it appears to be in very good form.
Steven Glover suggested that some funds from the Foundation be given to Brother Rahde for his efforts. Glover will contact Brother Rahde and make a recommendation as to the amount.
The Jordan Institute as part of the Jordan Campus for the Salt Lake Community College has been reserved for March 31, 2006 for the April reunion.
Larry Anderson reported by email that “he was meeting with Don Oldham, a former Fetzer South missionary that has a company with an office in Germany, and all the computing power the SGMF needs.”

Board members in attendance: Larry Anderson, Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman and by phone, Jack Welch and Steven Glover.
The meeting was held at the business office of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

Don Oldham agreed to host the web page and is in the process of building it though his company. The Website should be ready in January 2026.
The Board approved and authorized the amount of $500 to be paid to Brother Rahde for his work of translation of the pamphlet “Latter-day Christianity.”
Elder Bruce C. Hafen contacted Jack Welch and “indicated that it was his desire that the SGMF move forward with the Encyclopedia of Mormonism to see what we can do in getting that on the web-site.
Jack Welch contacted Hans Kelling “who indicated that he will electronically give to the SGMF that which has already been translated on the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, but had not yet done it.
Once Jack receives the electronic section he will assess “what information or sections need to be done next to further our assignment. Jack said he would get a translation cost for this new material and would get with Kelling.”
When we have something on the site [we will] let Elder Uchtdorf know what we have done and allow him to access it.”
Jack Welch will send around “a listing of articles from the EOM that we should translate and allow feedback from members of the committee and help prioritize what will be done.”
Stephen Schwendiman will forward a draft Foundation newsletter for Board members to look at and critique before it is sent out.
Jack Welch indicated that the “BYU library...had acquired the John Fetzer Papers.” Larry Anderson has had some conversation with President Gunther about this subject before but the President is not inclined to donate them

Board Members attending: Larry Anderson, Steven Glover, Larry Maloy Scott Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman. Board Members attending by phone: Jack Welch, Robert Sykes.
The meeting was held at Larry Anderson’s business office, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

Jack Welch indicated that once he has the list of missionaries with no address he would contact Elder Bruce Hafen to see what he can do to find addressed..
Bob Sykes indicated that he would prepare a new master list of board members with addresses..
Larry Anderson indicated that Don Oldham and he had been searching for some time for a new name for the website. Names suggested were: “Mormonenfragen” or “Mormononantworten, etc..
Steven Glover suggested that contact be made with German members to see what they think it should be called. Scott Anderson indicated that he was acquainted with Edgar Wolfurts at UVSC, a German member and he would contact him. Steven Glover said he would contact Brother Rahde. Jack Welch said he would contact Elder Hafen to see if he knows of individuals in Germany who could help..
Bob Sykes will contact Steen Tuft and David Lyon “to make sure that the SGMF was in compliance” with IRS filings..
Schwendiman presented a hard copy of the proposed “New Key” which was approved for dissemination and a separate note would be included to solicit funds..
Jack Welch recently received a complete set of electronic files of everything that has been translated into German of the Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Jack will determine what has been translated and notify the board members..
The Board agreed to work through the remainder of the Encyclopedia until it was all translated..
Board members would search out others who could or would translate the remainder of material.
The Jordan Institute was reserved for the April Reunion and a meal was agreed to be served..
Bob Sykes as to follow up with Elder Uchtdorf to see if he would speak at the reunion.

Board Members present in person: Larry Anderson, Larry Maloy, Steen Glover, Stephen Schwendiman; Members present by phone: Jack Welch and Robert Sykes.
The meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

Elder Uchtdorf would not be available for speaking at the reunion. Bob Sykes knows Elder John Carmack and would contact him to see if he could speak at the reunion.
No progress had been made in learning what a name could be for the website so everyone agreed to continue searching for an appropriate name.
Board members indicated that they felt more information about what the Foundation was doing should be sent to former missionaries.
It was again agreed that the Peterson missionaries should be included because many of them had also served under President Gunther.
Due to the costs of mailing, the Board voted to reimburse Stephen Schwendiman for costs of printing and mailing.
Elder Bruce Hafen said he would help locate missionaries once a master list was provided.
Jack was making progress with the Encyclopedia of Mormonism seeing that the articles were formatted and determining which ones still needed translation.
The Board agreed that a priority list of articles to translate would be prepared once a list was known of what was available.
Brother Rhade, who translated the “Latter-day Christianity” pamphlet would attend the reunion.
Don Oldham had the website ready but was just waiting for an official name

Board Members present in person: Larry Anderson. Larry Maloy, Scott Anderson, Steven Glover, Stephen Schwendiman. Board members attending by phone: Jack Welch.
The meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.
* The Board unanimously agreed that the website name should be “HLTWahrheit.org.”
Larry Anderson “agreed to be responsible for working on the word mix so that the search engine functions would bring this information and our website to the list when people want to access this information.”
Don Oldham had set up the website, placed the translated information from “Latter-day Christianity” on the website.
Larry Anderson noted that he had made arrangements with “Go-Daddy” to host the site. The Board voted to pay the feel of $8.00 a month for the site.
Jack Welch indicated that the material from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism that was already translated had “gone through several reviews and that it is appropriate to place directly on the website.”
It was agreed that the translation of the Encyclopedia “should move forward with caution and in a steady manner, but not going so fast that we outpace the money received in donations.”
Jack Welch reported that the translation services in Frankfurt could handle the translation but it would cost approximately “40 Euros per German page.” No commitment was made because of the cost.
Elder Hafen would help with translations and the Board authorized up to $5,000 to begin the effort.
The 30-40% of the Encyclopedia already translated would cost the Foundation nothing. Scott Anderson and Steven Glover agreed to review what articles were remaining to be translated and would prioritize them.
Stephen Schwendiman reported that he had many respond to the newsletter and notice of the reunion. The “recurring theme was whether Elder Bednar would be there. In response to this inquiry, Schwendiman indicated that he personally sent an email invitation along with emailed copies of the newsletter.”
Red Flame catering would cater the meal for the reunion.
The program for the reunion was then discussed and a vote would be taken for officers and board members as an annual meeting.

South German Mission Reunion and annual South German Mission Foundation meeting
Reunion and Foundation meeting held at the Jordan Institute of Religion, SLCC campus
Co-Chairs of the reunion: Scott Anderson, Kim W. Nelson, Stephen G. Schwendiman

Business of the Foundation discussed with sustaining of Foundation officers
A discussion was held about future projects of the Foundation
Elder John Carmack, Emeritus Seventy, Former member of the Europe Area presidency and Director of the Perpetual Education Fund was the guest speaker

Board Members attending in person: Larry Anderson, Larry Maloy, Steven Tuft, Steven Glover, Kim Nelson, Stephen Schwendiman. Board Member attending by phone: Jack Welch.
The meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

Stephen Schwendiman reported that there were 105 in attendance for the reunion dinner with another 10 coming afterward totaling 115.
Everyone agreed that the Jordan Institute was a great location for the reunion.
Kent Heidemann, Steve Biesinger, Alan Yorgason, Bill Barrett and Clint Warby indicated an interest in helping with the Board, but it was decided not to increase the size of the board at that time
It was discussed that for those who offered committees could be set up: Reunion committee, Membership/location committee, Fundraising committee, Translator/projects & web committee. 501c3 oversight committee. Board members could help out or oversee these committees.
Bob Sykes and Kent Heidemann would spearhead the reunion committee, Stephen Schwendiman and Larry Maloy would work with member location committee. Steven Glover and Kim Nelson would oversee the fundraising committee, and Jack Welch and Larry Anderson would work on the translation and special projects committee. Scott Anderson and Bob Sykes not being present were not assigned to a committee.
Lists of all donors should be made available to Board members and the fundraising committee.
“Kim Nelson reported that he had sent out information letters to each of the contact persons for the various German missions announcing the SGMF and its purposes. Kim indicated that he received several responses wanting more information.”
“Larry [Anderson] and Jack [Welch] indicated that Don Oldham, the webmaster, has the material and it is simply getting it put on the website now.
Board members who had accessed the website were very pleased with what it looked like and what was on it.
Stephen Schwendiman “indicated that he has personally sent a copy of the newsletter, reunion notice and information to Elders Bednar, Monson, Uchtdorf and Haven.”
Jack Welch and others thought that while the [Area] presidency cannot get directly involved, that they would be very supportive since this is something they have so far encouraged us with.
There was some discussion as to how to advertise the website in the German Wards. “Nothing formal was decided.”

Board members attending in person: Larry Anderson, Larry maloy, Jack Welch, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members attending by telephone: Steven Tuft, Steven Glover, Robert Sykes.
The Board meeting was held at Larry Anderson’s office at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

Because Bob Sykes would co-chair the reunion with Kent Heidemann, Bob will contact him. Scott Anderson would be involved because of the building and the great job he did with food.
“Steven Glover reported that Brother Rahde was really doing an exceptional job in his translation services) a sort of ‘labor of love’ and that he was pleased with the recognition that he received at the reunion.”
“Jack Welch indicated that he thought the translations were very very good. Jack indicated that he had not yet contacted Elder Hafen to see about the translators in Germany doing a review of the work in order to check for current usage the Church implements for translations.”
Brother Rahde’s translations were already on the website yet none of the Encyclopedia materials were yet on the site.
Larry Anderson and Jack Welch had not yet gone to lunch with Don Oldham to decide (1) process with Don, (2) determine what Don is willing to do, (3) guidelines on how the website will look once more material go on it, (4) search engines and how that will be handled.
Discussion was held regarding Foundation committees. Board members would need to be heavily involved because committee chairmen would not have any background on what has been going on.
Board Committee assignments:
501c3 Committee: Steve Tuft
Translation and Projects Committee: Jack Welch
Reunion Committee: Bob Sykes & Scott Anderson
Location/Newsletter Committee: Larry Maloy & Stephen Schwendiman
Fundraising Committee: Kim Nelson & Larry Anderson
Financial Oversight: Steven Tuft
Discussion was held regarding a second Newsletter being sent to aid in the fundraising efforts. Everyone agreed that would be beneficial
Larry Maloy agreed to see if the Foundation qualified for a non-profit stamp that would allow things to be sent out cheaper.

Board Members attending in person: Larry Anderson, Larry Maloy; Board Members appearing by phone: Steven Glover, Robert Sykes, Jack Welch.
The Board meeting took place at Larry Anderson’s office, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah

The Foundation has just over $18,000 in the bank.
Jack Welch reported that he sent articles to Elder Bruce C. Hafen who was going to help find translators, but no word yet.
Jack Welch and Larry Anderson met with Don Oldham about the website
The Website is up and running)looks like a library.
The translated sections of the Encyclopedia are on the website.
Steven Glover indicated that Brother Wolfert might be willing to do some of the translations but he needs to be officially contacted.
It was suggested that Elder Kim Clark be approached to see if he would speak at the reunion
Larry Anderson suggested that the Foundation be used to donate money to a widow. There was concern that this might jeopardize the tax exempt status so Steve Tuft would contact David Lyon to see if there was any concern. It would be a pass through donation from Larry Anderson.

Board members in attendance: Larry Anderson, Steven Glover, Stephen Schwendiman; No Board members called in and therefore there was no quorum present.
The meeting was held at Larry Anderson’s office at 8`80 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah

Larry Anderson reported that donating clothing for German missionaries was not a priority and that most German missionaries did not need such a donation, but the Foundation would help on an as-needed basis if it was necessary.
Brother Rhade has continued his translation services but is on vacation.
Don Oldham has not placed a search engine on the website and has done a marvelous job
Stephen Schwendiman indicated that he would contact Jack Welch to see if Elder Hafen could provide the contact information for bishops and branch presidents in German speaking areas to advertize the website for usage
The suggestion was made to have a question/answer box on the website so that questions could be submitted and answers given.
Someone suggested that a counter be placed on the website to determine the number of visits.
Bob Sykes’ paralegal has agreed to search out names and addresses of former missionaries for a fee and as such perhaps she (Vivian) could meet with the Board.
Stephen Schwendiman indicated that he would continue to type up the minutes for the meetings as he has been doing for several months. That way everyone can get a copy of what was discussed and decided.

Board Members attending in person: Larry Anderson, Larry Maloy, Steven Glover, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Jack Welch.
The meeting was held at Larry Anderson’s offices at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

It was decided that as many articles as possible from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism should be translated and placed on the website.
Jack W elch suggested that asking Elder Hafen for the contact information for bishops and branch presidents to advertize the website was not a good idea.
An email would be drafted by Larry Anderson to pass around to German leadership letting them know of the website.
The suggestion that clothing be provided for German missionaries was again discussed and tabled as no workable as we are not to “assume too much.”
Elder Hafen encouraged the Foundation to concentrate on translating articles and material as the best way to help the German Saints.
Jack Welch would send five articles that have been translated to the translators in the Church offices in Frankfurt for their review
An additional fundraising attempt should be made in order to provide funds for the translations.
Everyone thought it a great idea to see if Elder Bednar could speak at the reunion but it was thought that it might be easier to get Kim Clark, BYU-Idaho president to speak as he is one of our missionaries.
The Board voted unanimously to meet with Vivian to see how she was doing in her quest to locate missionaries.
Every Board member desired a counter on the website to determine its usage. Don Oldham would be contacted to see if that was possible.
The Board was pleased with the translation work of Brother Rhade and it was voted for Steven Glover to expend up to $100 to buy a gift card for diner for the Rhades as a thank you.
Stephen Schwendiman indicated he would contact Kim Nelson to see what ideas Kim had for fundraising.
The Board agreed to continue meeting the 2nd Monday of every month.

Board members attending in person: Scott Anderson, Larry Anderson, Steven Glover, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members attending by phone: Larry Maloy.
The meeting was held at Larry Anderson’s office at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah

Scott Anderson reported that Brother Wolfertz has returned from Germany and is now in a position to help with translations.
Many articles were taken by Scott Anderson and Steven Glover to be translated by those they had contact with.
Scott Anderson is now assigned to the Sandy Institute and future reunions can be held there but the 2007 reunion is scheduled for the Jordan Institute with Red Flame catering
A counter has not yet been attached to the website but Larry Anderson will contact Don Oldham to see that one is installed.
Further discussion was held regarding contacting bishops and Stake Presidents in German speaking countries to notify them about the website.
President Kim Clark of BYU-Idaho will attend the reunion and speak.
It was discussed that the Church was adding German sections to the Church Website.
It was further discussed with Don Oldham as to the possibility of getting our website linked to the Church site

Board Members attending: Steven Glover, Larry Anderson, Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman; Guest in attendance: Vivian Donaldson.
The meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

Vivian Donaldson who was hired by the Foundation to locate lost missionaries was present and indicated that 99% of those she contacts are thrilled with what is being done.
Vivian brought samples of what she was doing and is making great progress. She is being paid $10.00 an hour. She will be spending more time in the year to do more research.
Larry Maloy had contacted Lowell Barber to see about helping contact bishops, mission presidents, and others but indicated that he would not be able to help.
Jack Welch reported that he had contacted Elder Bruce Hafen who was supportive of the area helping in the translations but he will probably be reassigned this year and he did not know what a new Area President would do or approve.
Elder Hafen suggested to take the website down for a while and then he cold announce a “grand opening.” As such he would be able to put it on the calendar so that the new Area President would have it a part of the activities.
The announcement of the “grand opening” would be a great way to have the support and endorsement of the Area Presidency.
“Everyone was pleased with Elder Hafen’s willingness to put it on the calender and his willingness to support it.” Larry Anderson agreed to follow up with Don Oldham about getting a counter on the website.
Elder Hafen indicated that he was considering calling Church Service Missionaries to help with translation of materials the Foundation wanted to translate.
Since none of the Board members had the time to oversee the translations Jack Welch suggested Kelsey Draper, a former assistant, could coordinate these efforts.
Kelsey Draper would interact with the translators and church service missionaries and her appointment was approved at $15.00 per hour up to 10 hours a week.
The Board approved an increase in pay to Vivian Donaldson to complete the project.
Kim Clark agreed to be the speaker at the upcoming reunion.
Schwendiman indicated that he would prepare the next Foundation newsletter which would give a report of the Foundation’s activities.

Board members present in person: Larry Anderson, Scott Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman, Larry Maloy.
The Board meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah

Kent Heidemann was contacted about helping at the reunion.
Scott Anderson reported that Edgar Wolferts, an Institute Instructor at the Institute at the UVSC was helping to collect articles in order to translate material.
Scott Anderson also indicated that he would contact Laura Johnston, the Director of German Program at UVSC to get involved with the Foundation’s efforts.
Kelsey Lambert has agreed to work with the foundation to oversee and coordinate the translation of the articles for the Encyclopedia of Mormonism
Kelsey moved to the Midwest with her husband but is able, through the internet to coordinate things. Her email address is kelseydlambert@gmail.com.
Jack Welch will oversee the efforts with Kelsey but there needs to be a general editor who will review the new translations before they are placed on website.

Board members present in person: Scott Anderson, Larry Anderson, Steven Glover, Stephen Schwendiman, Larry Maloy.
The meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

Those being paid by the Foundation should submit billings showing the hours worked.’
Steven Glover has the authority to cut checks and can ask for clarification any time he believes it is necessary.
It was reported that Kelsey Lambert spent 8 hours in January and 14 hours in February on the coordination of the translations. Elder Hafen has been very supportive of the effort in the translations Translations on the Encyclopedia of Mormonism has been proceeding rapidly. Elder Hafen has called several Church Service missionaries and would like all of the translations to be placed on the website. All of the articles that have been translated are bing checked and reviewed before placement. Jack Welch reported that he had spoken with Hans Kelling a former Mission President of the South German Mission who is a professor of German at Brigham Young University. Hans Kelling is interested in acting as the general editor and reviewer of articles and will do so without payment. Hans Kelling indicated that he dreamed of an opportunity to help the work in such a manner Jack also knows several students from Germany who the Foundation can hire for $20/hr up to 40 hours a week to help translate the material and have Kelsey coordinate the effort. Fundraising has been very successful so far and the latest balance is $20,324.40. Bills for Kelsey and Vivian were approved and Steven Tuft given permission to make payments A motion was made to rotate the office of President of the Foundation and that there should be a yearly vote on officers.

South German Mission Reunion and annual South German Mission Foundation meeting
Reunion and Foundation meeting was held at the Jordan Institute of Religion, SLCC campus
Co-chairs for reunion: Scott Anderson, Kim Nelson, Stephen Schwendiman

Business of the Foundation conducted with sustaining of officers of the Foundation
A discussion was held on the ongoing projects of the Foundation
Report was given on each of the former Mission presidents of the South German Mission
President Kim Clark, former Dean of the Harvard Business School, Current president of BYU-Idaho, and former South German Missionary was the guest speaker.
President Clark spoke on his experiences in the Church back east
He related many of the spiritual experiences he had as a missionary and afterward

Board members in attendance: Steven Glover, Kim Nelson, Stephen Schwendiman.
The meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.
A concern was made that board members spent so much time serving that they did not have an opportunity of mingling and being with former missionaries. No one has heard of a “purely” Peterson missionary who wants to be on the Board Larry Maloy notified Stephen Schwendiman that President Blythe Gardner passed away so that his missionaries could no longer meet him. Quarterly updates of email addresses was suggested with information being sent to Elders Bednar, Uchtdorf, Haven, and President Monson. There still was no opportunity to coordinate with Vivian Donaldson about locating lost missionaries. Steven Glover gave an update after the fundraising at the reunion to establish that the current balance in the Foundation’s account was $22,863.82. Kelsey Lambert gave a report of her efforts with the Encyclopedia of Mormonism where she received an update from Gilles Francois (the translation coordinator in Frankfurt) which stated that the review process was going slow because of numerous other translations they were involved with. Kelsey indicated that the translation review process was proceeding in good order Lambert continues to pull English articles form off “Gospelink.com, cleans them up, organizes them and assigns them through Hans Kelling. Jack Welch will contact Elder Hafen to see what will be done to see what the “official unveiling” will be for the website. Don Oldham was “very pleased that he could be the host for the website.” Fundraising was given another plug so that members could suggest ways to do it. The Question was raised as to whether the by-laws should be tweaked. The suggestion was made that someone with a former missionary with a CPA could be asked to audit the Foundations books.

Board members in attendance in person: Larry Maloy, Larry Anderson, Steven Glover, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members present by phone: Jack Welch.
The meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah

The conference call line being used was disconnected and Kim Nelson made arrangements for a new line to be used.
Elder Hafen has been released as Area President and Robert C. Oaks has been appointed. No board member indicated any familiarity with President Oaks.
Jack Welch will get an update from Elder Hafen as to what is taking place before he is released.
Kelsey Lambert reported her efforts with the translation process. She followed the priorities established by Frankfurt. Frankfurt is making excellent progress with the translations. She is keeping track of articles sent, translated, reviewed and completed
Heinz Rhade has a new church missionary assignment and is not doing as many
She is getting mixed signals form Gilles Francois in Frankfurt believing that Francois did not feel the translations were good enough. She will follow through with this feeling. Each article goes through two reviews before it is submitted.
Hans Kelling “continues to work on translations and has two individuals working with him.
Unless more translators are located it will take along time to complete the project.
Jack Welch will contact Dan Oswald who owns a translating company and see what he suggests.
It was decided to table the suggestion that the board meet quarterly and continue to meet monthly to insure that the efforts of the translation of the Encyclopedia continue.

Board members in attendance in person: Larry Anderson, Larry Maloy, Kim Nelson, Stephen Schwendiman.
The meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.
Larry Anderson will make available a conference call number for the Board through his company
Kelsey Lambert reported that translations of Encyclopedia articles were proceeding but more information was needed to assess things.
No one was sure what the new Area Presidency would permit and whether Frankfurt would continue to review translations.
Don Oldham would be contacted to see if the counter was placed on the website
Stephen Schwendiman reported that President John Fetzer’s daughter delivered a box of materials from his mission years, including mission newsletters that can be reviewed and shared and placed on the website.
President Blythe Gardner, John Fetzer, and Orville Gunther all passed away this year with President Peterson having passed away some years before.
Larry Anderson has the mission picture books from the Gunther family and Gunther’s mission years.
The Foundation received information about electronic filings for the coming tax year.
It was suggested that Elder Bruce Hafen be asked to attend the next reunion since he was released as area president and was not back in the states.
Elder Bednar’s secretary has confirmed that he is aware of the Foundation’s activities and has read all of the material.

Board members in attendance in person: Steven Glover, Kim Nelson, Scott Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Larry Anderson, Robert Sykes, Jack Welch.
The meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah

Kelsey Lambert communicated with Gilles Francois in Frankfurt to get an update but has not yet received word back.
Kelsey Lambert received an additional fifteen articles from student translators since the last meeting.
It was decided that the articles on the website that have not yet been reviewed by Frankfurt remain on the website and if edited the new version would replace what was on the site.
Tina Star, who teaches German at BYU will become a paid translator and will be paid through the school.
Once articles are completed they are sent to Kelsey Lambert who logs them in and sends them on to Frankfurt. Once edited by Frankfurt they are returned to Kelsey and then placed on the website.
It was decided that once articles were completed they should be placed on the website before being edited by Frankfurt
Once the project is completed there will be a push to let everyone know of the website and possibly be linked to the Church’s official website.
It was agreed that if there was money in the account that we need we need to complete the project instead of letting it linger for years.
Scott Anderson said that Edgar Wolfertz has fifteen articles he is working on and knows other at UVSU who cold be approached to help in the translation process.
Elder Bruce Hafen indicated that when he left Frankfurt things were in place to continue the processes that had been authorized before in the further in the translations
Jack Welch indicated that the Encyclopedia of Mormonism was now on line in English and there is a lot of interest for it to be in different languages and we can link our translations to the library site.
Bob Sykes was told to let Vivian Donaldson know that she should concentrate on Gunther/Peterson missionaries in trying to locate former missionaries.
Larry Anderson needs to be in California helping one of his businesses for about six months but the board meetings will continue to be held at Larry’s office on 700 East

Board members in attendance in person: Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Jack Welch.
The meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

Several board members reported that they would be out of state for the meeting and were excused.
Stephen Schwendiman contacted Elder Bednar and invited him to attend and speak at the reunion but Shawna, his secretary contacted Schwendiman that he was aware of the invitation but had to decline because of a busy assignment during conference.
Kelsey Lambert reported that more articles were translated and she submitted them to Frankfurt.
Jack Welch has not yet reached out to the BYU library about the EOM in German because he felt it was premature since we still had a ways to go to finish
Tina Starr was not on board and was doing translation work. She was working under the direction of Hans Kelling. Once completed she would give the articles to Hans who reviewed them before forwarding them on to Kelsey Lambert
The use of the Wicki system for updating was discussed but it was decided that we move slowly.
Jack and his wife would be leaving for Paris the end of January where Jeannie would be teaching.
The suggestion was made that Elder Marlin K. Jensen, a former West German Missionary be asked to attend our reunions and speak.

Board members in attendance in person: Steven Glover, Scott Anderson, Stephen G. Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Larry Anderson, Steven Glover, Jack Welch.
The Board meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

Hans Kelling is heavily involved with the translation of the Encyclopedia of Mormonism and is planning on hiring two more students two worth part time to do translations with BYU billing the Foundation for their services. Jack Welch’s associate, Jamie Lyon and his wife have been called to serve a CES mission in the Institute in Frankfurt, Germany and Jack shared with him what the SGMF was doing. Jamie Lyon was excited about the Foundation’s efforts and will coordinate with the Frankfurt office of the Church to make sure things are moving forward.
BYU is putting together a billing for the last six months for those who have helped in the translations.
Whether BYU bills the Foundation monthly or less frequently or quarterly. Kelsey Lambert submitted a report. Part of the report is that she is sending some articles to Don Oldham for posting on the website.
She reported that Elder Hafen “had a group of stake and area leaders in Germany review the list of articles in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, and from that list they designated a group of 1st and 2nd priority articles. Once the 1st and 2nd priority group is completed Kelsey will forward those in priority 3 or those already translated for review by Frankfurt and then posting.
Jack Welch spoke with Hans Kelling who is absolutely committed to complete the project. When offered compensation for his efforts he declined.
Stephen Schwendiman indicated he would contact Vivian Donaldson about her location efforts.
Scott Anderson reported that he had been contacted by an organization that had been buying up LDS web site names to protect the Church and wanted to link with our site. No decision was made.
Jack Welch felt the Church would link to us once we got things further along.
Jack Welch also reported that Joe Cannon, editor of the Deseret News approached him about material that would be appropriate for the new section called “Mormon Times” and Jack felt the Foundation’s efforts would be a good story once we are further along with the translations. Possible speaker were discussed for the annual reunion: Marlin Jensen, Lowell Barber, Hans Kelling.
Hans Kelling and other translators should be invited to the reunion and business meeting.
The goal was set to complete the Encyclopedia of Mormonism by April reunion and business meeting in 2009.

Board members present in person at the meeting: Steven Glover, Stephen Schwendiman. Board members in attendance by phone: Seven Tuft. No quorum was present.
The meeting was held at the office of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah..

Steve Tuft indicated that he would research what tax forms and legal documents needed to be file..
Elder Dennis B. Neunschwander of the First Quorum of Seventy has accepted the invitation to speak at the annual reunion. John Lang, a former Fetzer missionary made the arrangements..
The newsletter was being prepared and would be forwarded to board members.
Stephen Schwendiman indicated that he would send letters and invite Presidents Thomas S. Monson and Dieter F. Uchtdorf as well as Elder David Bednar, Elder Robert C. Oaks, and Elder Bruce C. Hafen..
BYU finally sent a bill for the translations efforts in the amount of $2,205.00 representing approximately six months of work..
There was some preliminary discussion of linking the Foundation’s web site to other sites..
Stephen Schwendiman suggested that a demonstration be given of the Foundation website at the reunion and business meeting..
Some discussion was held as to whether to shift the reunion to Thursday evening in the future to see if Elder Bednar, or Elder Uchtdorf could come then as opposed to the regular Friday night.

Board members present in person at the meeting: Steven Glover, Scott Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman, Larry Maloy. Board members in attendance by phone: Robert Sykes, Scott Anderson.
The meeting was held at the office of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah

Stephen Schwendiman reported that he received a response from Elder Uchtdorf who was pleased with the efforts of the Foundation but was unable to attend the reunion.
The suggestion was made that a Hans Golze could possibly help in the Foundation efforts.
Steven Tuft attempted to contact David Lyons about sending out contribution receipts for tax purposes.
Steven Tuft further indicated that he was in the process of doing last years IRS form and needed the EIN number.
Larry Maloy indicated that he would talk to Lee Steiger about our efforts.
Bob Sykes had suggested that it had been some time since officers were changed and thought that the Board should consider changing positions. That was agreed to. The new President is Stephen G. Schwendiman with Scott Anderson, Vice President, Robert Sykes, Secretary, and Steven Glover, Treasurer. All former officers were voted as board members with the current board members retaining their status.
John Lang will be at the reunion with Elder Neunschwander as it was he who made arrangements.
Scott Anderson agreed to be in charge of getting a gift for Elder Neunschwander.

The South German Mission Reunion and annual South German Mission Foundation meeting
The reunion and Foundation meeting was held at the Jordan Institute of Religion, SLCC campus
Co-chairs of the reunion were Scott Anderson, Kim Nelson and Stephen Schwendiman
* Board business was conducted with the new slate of officers voted on and approved unanimously.
Larry Maloy gave a pleas to others to join with the efforts of the Foundation
A financial report was given to the members
Larry Anderson gave a report of the translation process and read the report by Kelsey Lambert
A demonstration of the Foundation website was given so people could understand how to access it.
Three of our members were serving as mission presidents: Brent Buckner in Switzerland and Lowell Barber in Germany Hamburg, and Jack Wixom in Washington, D. C.
Elder Dennis Neunschwander who was announced as the speaker was unable to attend because his Church assignment was changed by the brethren.
Arrangements were made for Elder Robert K. Dellenbach, Emeritus Seventy and former mission president of the Germany, Munich Mission, to attend and address the reunion

Board members present in person: Steven Glover, Scott Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson, Robert Sykes, Jack Welch.
The meeting was held at the office of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.
* After a recap of the reunion, there was a discussion to see if Elder David A. Bednar, one of our South German missionaries could attend a reunion if it was held on a Thursday evening. If Elder Bednar cannot come in person, there was a discussion to see if he would record something for us to play.
It was discussed that since President Hans Kelling was the mission president after President Peterson that we include he and his missionaries and invite him to the reunions.
Jack Welch reported that the Encyclopedia of Mormonism is now accessible through the BYU website and will have a search engine, something we would like to do in German
Based on what the Foundation is doing, there is an effort to have it translated into French
Kelsey Lambert had not given an update for the current meeting.
Edgar Wolforts is working closely with Kelsey Lambert and coordinating translations and projects with her more than he was doing before. Hans Kelling has hired two more student translators who will work with him on the translations.
Jack Welch reported that Gilles Francois, from the Area office in Frankfurt has been asked to be the final approval for the project and translations.
Also the Frankfurt Stake President is very supportive of the project.
Gilles and Jack Welch discussed involving the Institute students in Germany to help move the project along. Several have already shown an interest in getting involved.
The Board agreed unanimously to help provide refreshments and other items for the translators in Germany.
The idea of giving bonuses for work well done was discussed but no decision was made.

Board members in attendance: Scott Anderson, Larry Maloy, Seven Glover, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson, Jack Welch; Guest in attendance by phone: Kelsey Lambert. The meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah. * Kelsey Lambert gave an update on the translations and was pleased with the progress of the student translators, Brother Kelling and Edgar Wolforts were making. Edgar had sixteen articles that he was working on. Jack Welch reported on his conversation with Gilles who continued to have articles and is very enthused about the Board’s project Jamie Lyon’s efforts I getting student volunteers Through the Frankfurt office was discussed. Kelsey Lambert has sent Don Oldham approximately 230 articles for inclusion on the website. Many of these articles were not yet reviewed by Frankfurt. Through Elder Hafen and the Frankfurt office, the articles of the Encyclopedia of Mormonism were placed in three categories: priority levels. Kelsey Lambert reported that translators are about ½ way through the level 2 translations. Student translators are being paid $12.00. The stake president in Frankfurt was both supportive of the project but would like to be helpful. BYU is putting the Encyclopedia on line in English in a Wikii format. Jack Welch reported that he had written an article for the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies on Chiasmus and would ultimately be published in the “Mormon Times.” Whether the article on Chiasmus would be translated into German by the Foundation was discussed but no decision was made

Board members in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Larry Maloy, Steven Glover, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members attending by phone: Kim Nelson.
The meeting was held at Larry Anderson’s office at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

It was not known whether all of the articles submitted to Don Oldham had been placed on the website.
Steven Glover reported that he has still not received any billings from BYU.
Discussion was conducted about Brother Wolfert’s involvement in the translation process.
It was determined that the bibliography remain in English instead of being translated into German because of source and notation requirements. It was decided that translators should translate only what is there instead of trying to update material but should alert the Board if there are issues that should be discussed.
Decided that there would be no listing of translators on individual articles, but a notation on the website could acknowledge them.
The question was raised about the reference to the King James Version of the Bible as it relates to the use by Germans of other versions.
Scott Anderson was authorized to discuss with Edgar Wolforts as to whether he wants to be paid or whether he will do as Hans Kelling did and agree to do his translation as an unpaid volunteer.
Stephen Schwendiman needed to communicate with Kelsey Lambert to get her to submit her billings.
Some of the articles that Edgar Wolforts had for translation were not on the priority list and a discussion was held as what to do. Perhaps she did not have a complete list of priority articles.
Question was raised as to whether the translators were running out of articles. Hans Kelling would be contacted to see how the process was moving along
The list of translators was reviewed and the number of articles they have for translation. Everyone was excited about the progress being made.
Jack Welch agreed to contact Hans Kelling to determine whether the articles that he had translated years before should be reviewed by the current SGMF translators.
The Board agreed that in addition to the Encyclopedia, the Board should consider undertaking other material to translate as the current project is “winding down.”
Scott Anderson knows Elder Robert C. Oaks and will contact him to see if there are other projects that the Board could translate.

Board members in attendance in person: Larry Anderson, Scott Anderson, Steven Glover, Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson, Jack Welch; Others in attendance: Edgar Wolforts, Kelsey Lambert (by phone).
The meeting was held in the offices of Larry Anderson at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

Kelsey Lambert reported that she just sent a batch of articles to Don Oldham, some 230 of them for placement on the website.
Don Oldham had to re-work the articles because the file names were in English and he had to arrange them in German.
Don Oldham wanted to know about the references at the end of the articles and whether there would be hyperlinks. It was unanimously decided that there should be no hyperlinks at this point of time but at some point of time in the future these could be done.
Kelsey reported that there was still much to be done on the project and the Translation was not close to end.
There are approximately 1,000 articles that need translation. So far Hans Kelling translated 400 and there are another 600 that need to be translated.
Kelsey Lambert is working with some new translators.
There has been a pretty good flow of articles that come through her to Don Oldham. She gets the articles back quickly.
It was discussed as to the number of articles that should be sent to Don Oldham at a time. Kelsey Lambert will get with Don Oldham and discuss this topic.
Edgar Wolferts had been President of he South German Mission in the 1990s and was good friends with Hans Kelling earlier years.
Wolferts expressed his gratitude for doing such a wonderful project for the German people.
A question was raised as to whether all articles should be translated or whether some “dated” articles should be left out.
The Board requested Kelsey Lambert to generate a list of possible articles that we would not translate.
Brother Wolferts lead a discussion of the use of the King James Version as it relates to the articles.
No decision was made.
It was decided that several articles regarding Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf be translated because of the excitement of those in Germany at his calling.
Brother Edgar Wolferts was authorize to prepare and be paid for an original article on the history of the use of the Bible in German and the King James Version.
Scott Anderson will contact Elder Robert C. Oaks, Area President for Germany and update him on the work being done and encourage him to see that this work progresses.

Board members in attendance in person: Larry Maloy; Board members in attendance by phone: Steven Glover, Bob Sykes. There was no quorum.
The meeting was held at Larry Anderson’s office, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

Billings were finally received from Edgar Wolferts as well as BYU.
Larry Maloy approached Stephen Schwendiman about taking over the task of treasurer because Steven and Beverly Glover would be serving a mission.
Steven Glover resigned as Treasurer at the meeting and Larry Maloy was installed.
Steven Glover would continue as a member of the Board even while he and his wife served their mission.
Business of the Board were delayed until the next meeting as too many were not available.

oard members in attendance in person: Larry Maloy, Larry Anderson, Scott Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Jack Welch.
the meeting was held at the office of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

Kelsey Lambert was not able to call in but she reported that she sent out about 50 more articles to students for translation and checked in close to 100 from Hans Kelling so things are moving along.
Hans Kelling “expressed that he is very pleased with Edgar Wolferts prima translations.”
Jack Welch reported that at any one particular time there are five student translators doing the work who are working approximately 15-20 hours a week.
There was a concern as to whether the Foundation would run out of money at the rate of translations but there is enough to carry us though to the next reunion fund raiser.
When membership sees progress they are more willing to come forward and contribute to the effort.
Everyone agreed there needs to be a clear road map of what the Foundation will do in the future.
Kelsey Lambert will be requested to give a full accounting for the January meeting.
Don Oldham will be invited to the next reunion in order to explain his involvement with the Foundation and receive our thanks.
Don Oldham had made many new improvements to the website.
Elder Robert C. Oaks, Area President in Europe was invited to be our reunion speaker.
Don Oldham will be invited to show how to access the website at the next reunion
Board members agreed to take a series of names and contact them for purposes of attending the reunion with Stephen Schwendiman sending out a new mailing.

Board members in attendance in person: Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Steven Tuft, Kim Nelson, Jack Welch; Others in attendance by phone: Kelsey Lambert.
The meeting was held at Larry Anderson’s office at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah

Because of health issues with his wife, Steven Glover fully turned over the responsibilities of Treasurer of the Foundation to Larry Maloy. The Board unanimously accepted Steven’s resignation as treasurer and sustained Larry Maloy in that position.
Kelsey reported that an additional 20 articles were sent to translators in the last month. She also received back about the same number from translators.
Don Oldham is ready to post more articles on the website and all that he has been given are posted.
Kelsey Lambert indicated that she would compile and send out a complete list of every article and its progress or where it is.
Further discussions were held regarding fundraising so that the translation process could be completed on time and within budget.
Robert C. Oaks confirmed that he would be the speaker at the next reunion.
Hans Kelling will be invited to attend the reunion and speak about his efforts with the translation of the encyclopedia.
It was agreed that based on Elder Bruce Hafen’s encouragement and involvement that he be kept in the loop of everything we are doing Board members agreed to let Kelsey Lambert know if there were articles we believed should not be translate and then they would be discussed.

Board members in attendance in person: Steven Glover, Larry Maloy, Scott Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Jack Welch, Kim Nelson; Others in attendance by phone: Kelsey Lambert.
The meeting was held at the offices of Larry Anderson, 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah

There was a student on J-1 Visa and Larry Maloy indicated that it depends on the restrictions as to whether this person could act as a paid translator. Hans Kelling would be contacted to determine.
Larry Maloy accepted all of the documents and records from Steven Glover and therefore took over the assignment in full as Treasurer.
Kim Nelson had put together a list of 20 German speaking mission contacts who could be approached for fund rasing efforts.
All board members agreed that we have “a story to tell,” it being a success story the likes no one of the board is familiar with anywhere else. Whether a quarterly newsletter should be considered was discussed, but it was thought that there might not be enough to report to make it that feasible.
Because of the use of funds on the translation, Donaldson would be contacted to see what the status was of her efforts.
A discussion was held as to whether charitable organizations such as Larry H. Miller Charities, Huntsman Foundation. Alan Ashton Foundation, Deseret Foundation and others closely related to the LDS Church could be contacted for funding.
The entire board expressed gratitude to Kelsey Lambert for the efforts she was making in the handling of the Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Kelsey Lambert gave an update on all of the articles that were in process of translation and/or posting on the website.
Kelsey Lambert indicated that Frankfurt has been less than responsive and dragging their feet in working with her.
Don Oldham has been very responsive and works through issues with him as to the website.
Kelsey indicated that lately she has not spent a lot of time and therefore billings have not been regular, but everyone wanted her to be up to date in getting paid.
There is currently a tracker on the website so that reports can be given. Since October there have already been around 5,000 hits on the website and it gets about 700 hits a week.
Jack Welch discussed when we could announce a “finished” and “Polished” website in order to announce it.
While the goal to complete the Encyclopedia had been set for April 2009, that was not met but great progress is being made and it will be completed soon.
Scott Anderson reported on his contact with President Robert C. Oaks for as the reunion speaker.
President Oaks was excited about participating with the Foundation and reunion .

Board members who were present in person: Steven Glover, Larry Anderson, Larry Maloy, Scott Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson, Jack Welch; Others attending by phone: Kelsey Lambert.
The meeting was held at the office of Larry Anderson at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah

Stephen Schwendiman reported that he had spoken with Vivian Donaldson about sending out emails to those on whom we have emails on seeking increased donations Vivian Donaldson was willing to continue looking for addresses but was waiting for further information.
Jack Welch reported that he conversed with Hans Kelling who was excited about coming to the reunion and was grateful that his missionaries were included in the reunion.
Hans Kelling has been invited to address the missionaries at the reunion.
Larry Maloy, Steven Glover and Don Oldham were invited to write articles for the newsletter.
Kim Nelson reported that he spoke to representatives of other missions to explain what the foundation was doing and everyone was impressed. They were invited to participate but so far no takers
Scott Anderson said he would make arrangements for Don to show how to use the website.
Kelsey reported that her main responsibility is monitoring what is taking place. She logs in articles, checks them and sends them on to Don Oldham
Kelsey was asked to provide a rough estimate of how long it would take to complete the Encyclopedia of Mormonism at the current rate.
Steven Glover contacted the LDS Foundation for possible contributions but he has not yet heard back.
There was a request to look into other charitable organizations that would possibly contribute.
Stephen Schwendiman indicated that President John Fetzer’s daughter brought to him all the ld Keys and newsletters of her father’s mission president days.
Scott Anderson saw the movie “Errand of Angels” and thought it was worth seeing because of the German/Austrian setting.
Larry Anderson reported that there was a possibility we would not have use of the 700 East office complex any longer. He was going through business changes.

Board members present at the meeting in person: Larry Maloy, Scott Anderson, Larry Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman; Members attending the meeting by phone: Kim Nelson, Robert Sykes; Others in attendance: Kelsey D. Lambert.
The meeting was held at Larry Anderson’s office at 8180 South 700 East, Sandy, Utah.

A draft copy of the Foundation newsletter was handed out and discussed with modifications.
Some individuals responded to the website and asked questions. It was discussed how responses should be made and who should be the one to respond.
It was determined that something be placed on the website to tell what the Foundation was with a means of contributing to the Foundation
Steven Glover indicated that the Deseret Trust Company will allow donations to be made by individuals to the Foundation if we establish the Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization and was eligible for donations.
Kim Nelson will MC the reunion, Steven Glover will show how to use the website, Scott Anderson will be in charge of getting the meal. Scott Anderson will introduce President Robert C. Oaks and Hans Kelling will address the group and be introduced by Jack Welch.
Kelsey Lambert reported that she has finalized 220-230 articles that had been in her review box and was sending them to the website.
Kelsey Lambert indicated that she was working with 5-6 BYU translators from BYU.
Kelsey indicated that what took time was that she had to go through each article, format them, rename them so that they would be compatible with Don Oldham’s needs.
Kelsey reported that she had received no feed back from Germans other than those who contacted Don Oldham who is over the website.
Scott Anderson said he would contact Brother Wolferts about his article on the use of the Bible by the German people and would invite him to the reunion.
Bob Sykes indicated that his paralegal, Vivian Donaldson, was still available for use of searching the addresses of our members.

Board members attending the meeting by phone: Kim Nelson, Jack Welch, Steve Glover, Scott Anderson; Others attending by phone: Kelsey D. Lambert The meeting was held on the phone only and was not held at any location.

Stephen Schwendiman reported that he received a letter from President Dieter F. Uchtdorf responding to his letter: Thanked the Foundation for “the many great things you do for building up the kingdom.” “ I hope to get a chance to meet with all of you again sometime in the future.”
As to the website: “The intent is very impressive and certainly points in a direction that could help the Church in German-speaking countries. “As you know, ‘out of small things proceedeth that which is great.’” “May God bless and keep you always.
The Board knows the limitations of what is being attempted and is grateful that President Uchtdorf is familiar with our site and efforts.
Jack Welch said he would contact BYU library and determine what coordination the Foundation can have with the Y’s website
Stephen Schwendiman indicated that he sent to President Robert C. Oaks a copy of the newsletter and information about the Foundation in preparation for the reunion. Everyone indicated that expenditures needed to be monitored.
Edgar Wolferts was given the more detailed and difficult articles and would take more effort to translate.
Don Oldham and his wife need to be recognized at the reunion about the efforts that he is making in relation to the website.
It needs to be clear that the Foundation is clearly identified on the website.
Robert Campbell of the Church information office was asked what needs to be on the website to be in compliance with Church policies an guidelines. He was impressed with what we were doing.
The Church Information personnel were willing to meet with the Board to suggest improvements to the website and what we are doing.
Scott Anderson reported that when and if we comply with Church policies and have the OK from Campbell or others and we are fully up and running we can link with the Church.

Kelsey Lambert reported that nothing unusual has happened during the past month. She received a few more articles, approximately 15 and this is typical for the month Hans Kelling has been very busy in reviewing articles and has done a great work.
Lori Shultheiss is one of the more active translators and Kelsey is getting more work for her. She is excited to work with the foundation. She has been invited to the reunion.
BYU has a hiring freeze which limits the number of those who are available for translating.
715 invitations and newsletters have been mailed to former missionaries.
Schwendiman will address the group as president and Scott Anderson will introduce President Oaks and make sure that protocol for general authorities is complied with. A new place needs to be located for the in person Foundation meetings.

The South German Mission Reunion and annual South German Mission Foundation meeting
The reunion and Foundation meeting was held at the Jordan Institute of Religion, SLCC campus
Co-chairs of the reunion were Scott Anderson, Kim Nelson and Stephen Schwendiman

Board business was conducted with the slate of officers voted on and approved unanimously.
A financial report was given to the members
A discussion was held regarding the translation process and other projects that the Foundation was engaged on.
A demonstration of the Foundation website was given so people could understand how to access it.
President Hans Kelling, senior living mission president addressed the group.
President Robert C. Oaks, President of the Europe Central Area and member of the Seventy addressed the group of missionaries. 95 attended the reunion

Board members in attendance at the meeting: Scott Anderson, Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Robert Sykes.
The meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion on Poppy Lane in Sandy, Utah

Following President Kelling’s attendance it was moved and granted unanimously that the reunion and Foundation in th future include five mission presidents, including President Kelling’s missionaries.
President Erich Kopischke, a former missionary under President Kelling will be the new Area President of the Europe area.
President Kopischke had been a counselor to President Oaks and Schwendiman will send a letter and notices to him to introduce him to the Foundation and what is taking place.
With President Uchtdorf’s recognition of the Foundation efforts, he will be kept in the loop of what we are doing in hopes he will be able to attend and address the group. Kelsey Lambert was not available but Jack Welch reported that Lore Shultheiss has finished an additional 27 articles.
Even though Kelsey Lambert was not available she reported that “we have about 350 articles remaining (out of a total of almost 1000). About 75 of those articles have already been assigned out to translators but haven’t come back yet.
Jack Welch suggested that the Foundation hire “one of our previous translators, Tina, [who] is back in Provo.”
A discussion was held regarding how far out the completion of the Encyclopedia would be.
There had been no further contact with the Church Web-site coordinators at the Church offices but Scott Anderson said he would follow up with them.
It was unanimously agreed that Vivian Donaldson continue to locate former missionaries.
There was a question about where Brother Wolferts was in preparation of the article on the Bible usage in Germany.
All future board meetings will be held at the Sandy Institute, 9501 South Poppy Lane (945 East).

Board members in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Steven Glover, Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman. Board members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson, Jack Welch; Others in attendance by phone: Kelsey Lambert
The meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah

Elder Erich Kopischke would become Area president on August 1, 2009. Elder Kopischke had been a former German Mission President and Stephen Schwendiman would contact him about the possibility of he having a mission reunion in conjunction with ours in 2010.
Jack Welch reported that Elder Kopischke’s son was one of the translators who worked on the Encyclopedia of Mormonism.
Other translators are graduating from BYU and will be leaving our service.
Jack Welch reported that a former translator, Jasmine, was back in the area and would like to continue helping us in translating. It was unanimously agreed.
Jack Welch further indicated that Benjamin was attempting to use Google translator program for German to see if that would speed things along. Was it a time saver? Questionable.
Further discussion was held with what the Foundation wants to do once the Encyclopedia of Mormonism is completed. Jack Welch will contact individual he knows in Germany to get input.
Based on President Uchtdorf’s suggestions the Foundation should do the following: (1) Look at the navigation terms, (2) Look at how the website is laid out, (3) have the current translators go to the website and make suggestions for improvements, (4) wait until everything is on the site to make changes.
Kelsey Lambert reported that the Foundation has 5 active translators. The are only 120 articles left to be assigned.
Translators are doing 25 articles a month and should be completed by the end of September.
Don Oldham wants a large group of articles at one time so she has not sent him any new ones for some time.
Hans Kelling does an initial review then sends them on to Kelsey Lambert. She must rename the file and get them ready to transmit to Don Oldham.
There are currently about 20-30 articles out for translation.
Larry Maloy reported that with so few articles left for translation, there should be sufficient funds for the completion of the project.
Kelsey Lambert indicated that she had notified the translators that the project was coming to a close.
It was agreed that the Foundation continue to pay per hour instead of article.
President Robert C. Oaks suggested that the Foundation consider doing articles about the Saints’s refugee/war stories. Kim Nelson suggested that the Foundation do that work.
Jack Welch indicated that there are 400-500 people in Germany on a subscription list for Church books that could be used to determine which ones to translate and publish.

Board members in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Steven Glover, Kim Nelson, Jack Welch, Stephen Schwendiman.
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion at 9501 South Poppy Lane.

BYU has been delinquent in sending billings to the Foundation for reimbursement. Jack Welch agreed to contact the appropriate parties and determine what the problem was.
Kelsey Lambert reported through email that “Last month I reported that we were down to about 200 articles out for review. We’re now down to140.”
Stephen Schwendiman had not yet written to Elder Erich Kopischke because he was waiting for the correct address to send him the letter.
Steven Glover reported that the Deseret Foundation does not have a specific category set up for someone to donate to the Foundation but individuals who wanted to could donate to our Foundation through it.
Jack Welch had written to August Schubert in Germany about what other projects could be entered into in translating once the Encyclopedia was completed but he had not yet heard back.
Former South German missionary, Ed Gholston had been appointed the Deputy Director/manage for the Orion space project for NASA.
Scott Anderson reported of a new approach to help get people into the mission field, headed by Elder Robert E. Wells. The Foundation considered whether it could help in this regard but it was decided that such a project was “beyond the scope of our mission at this point.”
The Board as a whole was committed to placing the stories of the LDS Saints in World War II on the website. This was encouraged by Elder Robert C. Oaks. Authorization needed to be received by the Church in order to place them on our site.

Board members in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Seven Glover, Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson, Jack Welch; Others in attendance by phone: Kelsey Lambert.
The board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah.

Jack Welch received a letter back from August Schubert. He was grateful for our offer to help the saints in Germany.
His group has already released 100 titles of LDS books.
His organization offered to help the Foundation if we can determine how.
An offer was made to place all titles to the books on the Foundation website.
They desired to meet with the Board to determine what could be done.
Various aspects of August Schubert’s letter were explored and Jack was authorized to continue discussions with Schubert.
Kelsey Lambert reported that all of the final articles of the Encyclopedia have been assigned out.
Kelsey needs to communicate with Hans Kelling to determine where the articles are and what needs to be done yet in completing them. It will only take a few weeks to complete the assigned ones.
Lore Schultheiss is “super fast” in her translating so she will get the articles done promptly.
Kelsey is in the process of formatting all of the articles before sending them on to Don Oldham for placement on the website.
It was the hope that all articles will be completed and sent to Don by April, 2010 so that at the reunion it can be announced that the project was completed. The translators seem to be happy working on the project and she believes we can meet that April date.
It was not yet determined by the Board whether further translations would be done, but to let the translators know that such was a possibility.
Scott with check with Ed Wolferts about his efforts and there would not be any more assigned to him because of his efforts to complete what he has.
BYU still has not responded to the need for billings but Larry Maloy would contact them in order to bring everything up to date.
It was discussed how we could get others involved as it appears the Foundation is taking on much for the few of us who are on the board. No conclusion were reached. It was agreed that the Board needed to consider the direction it needed to go in the future for other projects.

Board members attending in person: Scott Anderson, Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Jack Welch, Kim Nelson, Steven Glover.
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah.

While Kelsey Lambert was not available she sent a report indicating that “two translators have sent in all remaining articles...I still need to contact the rest of them to send their remaining articles.’
Kelsey contacted Don Oldham to see if all articles from the Encyclopedia could be posted by April.
This will complete a wonderful project undertaken by the Foundation
Jack Welch tried to follow up with August Schubert after November’s meeting but has not yet heard back from him.
Kim Nelson suggested that we invite Elder Kopischke to have his reunion at the Jordan Institute at the same time we have our since he is coming from Europe for Conference. That invitation will be made.
Scott Anderson mentioned that there were miracles taking place in allowing us to work with the Church in Germany. Stephen Schwendiman will communicate with President Kopischke to offer the Jordan Institute for his reunion and then join all together for a meeting where he could address us.
It was unanimous that a separate website be created for the Encyclopedia once it is complete.
A discussion was held as to possible names for the various websites that the Foundation was contemplating.
Jack Welch indicated that recommendation from Samuel Koch, web designer and master for the Public Affairs group would be welcomed information to help the sites be better.
Don’s employee, Peter Warmbier in Germany would certainly know Koch and could work with him.
The question was raised if our website for the Encyclopedia of Mormonism could be linked to the official Church site in Germany.
The board was not aware of what it would take to link our site with the Official Church site, but felt that President Kopischke could help us through that issue. There was some frustration expressed with the lack of response from the Area office in Frankfurt. Jack Welch indicated that he would contact people he knew to see what could be done.
A discussion was held regarding President Uchtdorf’s suggestion of “culturalization” of many of the articles. A review would be made.
Based on President Uchtdorf’s comments, everyone was agreed that Peter Warmbier should take a look at the translations and see that they are in conformity with the language use at the time.

Board members in attendance in person: Larry Maloy, Scott Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Jack welch, Kim Nelson; Other attending by phone: Kelsey Lambert.
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah.

Steven and Beverly Glover’s mission call was to the Munich/Austria mission.
Jack Welch, encouraged Board members to attend the BYU Studies Symposium celebrating the 50th Anniversary of BYU Studies.
Elder L. Tom Perry’s efforts in Germany were discussed where he designated half of each meeting house as an Institute for Friday and Saturdays. Good opening for help with the Foundation.
Kelsey Lambert reported that she spent a lot of time catching up on the translators. Lambert said she has spent a lot of time locating and rounding up articles from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism assigned over the past year and found that there are still 111 articles that she needed to track down. Kelsey Lambert also reported that there were still 25 articles that had not yet been assigned to translators but they are now assigned and being worked on. There are 19 articles she needs feedback on and will figure out where they are.
Hans Kelling has most of the articles and reported that he is getting so many he is overwhelmed.
Don Oldham told Lambert that if the articles were submitted by the end of January he could have them posted on the website by April’s missionary reunion. Not all articles will be completed by January 31, but 95% of them would be done.
The articles would be highlighted at the reunion even if they are not fully completed.
Scott Anderson, on behalf of the Board, thanked Kelsey Lambert for her efforts and involvement. She responded by saying she found working on this project worthwhile and enjoyable.
As to the question of whether Hans Kelling like one translator more than another, Kelsey Lambert indicated that Kelling said he liked them all. Lore Shultheiss was one of the quicker translators.
Stephen Schwendiman indicated that he had not yet heard back from President Erich Kopischke about holding a joint reunion at the Jordan Institute.
Jack Welch heard back from August Schubert & Bruder Roth at the LDS Books group in Germany: Roth was involved with information technology and was an area Seventy. Roth served under President Hans Kelling He would like to come to the reunion. If President Kopischke cannot come to the reunion, perhaps Brother Roth could be the speaker.
Schubert and Roth did not have the books digitized in a format that can be placed on the website.
If the Board wanted to help digitize some of the books for placement, it would be thousands of dollars for which would be beyond what we could afford. An Abby program could be used to digitize, but it would cost $.50 a page which is an additional cost that we could not afford.
Schubert and Roth are willing to look further into this and that their initial statements of partnering with us is sincere. There are some copyright issues and we would need to check and see if the copyright holders would allow such a thing to be done. He is not sure whether Roth and Schubert have asked the publishers but that will need to be checked to see if we can put books on the web.
Kim Nelson suggested that we could create a program called “Sponsor-a-Book” whereas we ask missionaries or others to contribute $200-250 so that a book can be scanned and placed on the site.
A review of titles would be done to see what has been translated into German and whether they should be handled.

Board members in attendance in person: Larry Maloy, Scott Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson and Jack Welch; Others in Attendance by phone: Kelsey Lambert.
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah.

Jack Welch reported that he had communicated with August Schubert and Edwin Roth regarding digitization of books.
The Foundation cannot digitize books cheaper and could not afford to do so at the cost per page that was suggested.
It was believed by some that Roth and Schubert wanted the Board to pay for digitization so that they could make a profit on what was done. That was a concern.
Kelsey Lambert indicated that she was able to locate all of the articles and that every article except 3 had been translated. The last articles were being worked on.
The Board was thrilled that the Entire Encyclopedia of Mormonism has been translated.
Kelsey Lambert reported that after she cleans up the final articles she will forward them to Don Oldham for placement on the website.
Lambert wrote to all of the translators to inform them that the work was not only winding down but that they should not expect more.
Stephen Schwendiman indicated that President Kopischke has agreed to attend the reunion and hold his own missionary reunion and then join with us for a talk.
President Kopischke agreed to meet with the Board members before the reunion to discuss our Foundation business and introduce him to what we were doing and what we wanted to do with him.
All Translators and spouses are being invited to the reunion where announcement will be made of the completion of the Encyclopedia project.
No announcement would be made regarding working with August Schubert and Edwin Roth as the board was concerned with outstanding issues.
The Board changed the times of meeting to the 2nd Tuesday of every month at noon mountain time.

Board members attending in person: Scott Anderson, Steven Glover, Stephen Schwendiman; Board Members in attendance by phon: Kim Nelson, Steven Tuft, Jack Welch; Others in attendance by phone: Kelsey Lambert.
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah.
* Kelsey Lambert was thanked for all her efforts with the Foundation. She reported that she was close to sending all articles to Don Oldham but had not yet completed this project.
Kelsey sent 600 articles to Don Oldham in January. All but approximately 80 articles have been forwarded to Don for his finalization and placement on the website.
Lambert is in the process of gathering all articles from Hans Kelling, preparing them and ensuring all remaining articles are accounted for.
Personal letters and reports from the Foundation were sent to President Thomas S. Monson, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, President Erich R. Kopischke, Elder David A Bednar, Elder Bruce C. Haven.
The Board asked to meet with President Kopischke at conference but there was not response yet.
All translators were invited to the reunion to receive recognition and thanks
Scott Anderson is coordinating with Russell Olsen, a former Assistant to the President under President Kopischke to make the two reunions possible at the Institute building.
Jack Welch reported that he had not yet heard back from August Schubert.
The suggestion was made that the singles in Europe be utilized to critique and make suggestions for the Foundation.

SPECIAL MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ERICH KOPISCHKE:
Board members in attendance in person with President Kopischke: Scott Anderson, Kim Nelson, Bob Sykes, Jack Welch, Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman; Others in attendance in person: Don Oldham.
The meeting was held at the Church office Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, second floor offices of the Seventy, the office of President Cecil Samuelson. The meeting was held at 5:30 p.m.
* Stephen Schwendiman began the meeting by describing what the Foundation was set up for and what it’s desires were in the future.
Don Oldham gave a summary report of web usage, the number of times people first requested the site, those how had been referred from other sources and other contacts.
The Board requested President Kopischke’s help in making sure the German people have access to what the Foundation was attempting to do.
President Kopischke was very receptive and presented material he had been given by Gabriele Sirtl, Europe area Director of Public Affairs. President Kopischke suggested a separate stand alone web site for the Encyclopedia of Mormonism in German
The name hltwahrheit.org sounded somewhat sectarian and that other items could be on another site for the benefit fo German speaking saints. President Kopischke was informed that the website was searchable.
The suggestion was made that the Encyclopedia be linked to the Austrian, Swiss and German Church websites.
Several volunteers are already looking at stories referred to by President Robert C. Oaks to se if they can be placed on a website.
A discussion was held about the “correct German Translations” in that President Kopischke agreed that ther were different usage of the language at various areas in Germany
Gabriele Sirtl will be the contact person at the Frankfurt office to deal with the Foundation matters.
If the Encyclopedia was standing independently, the Europe Office would recognize it and let the Saints know
Elder Bruce Hafen saw members of the board after the meeting and gave support to what it was doing. 

ANNUAL REUNION WITH PRESIDENT ERICH KOPISCHKE
Board members in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Robert Sykes, Kim Nelson, Steven Tuft, Stephen Schwendiman, Larry Maloy; Others in attendance: President Erich Kopischke, Sister Kopischke, Hans Kelling.
The Reunion and Foundation meeting was held at the Jordan Institute of Religion, SLCC campus at 90th South and Bangerter Highway.

The building was divided into two areas so that President & Sister Kopischke could meet with their missionaries from the Berlin Mission 2003-2006.
Stephen Schwendiman addressed the group and thanked those who supported the Foundation and summarized the meeting with President Kopischke at the Church Office Building.
President Hans Kelling then spoke. He said he enjoyed his association with the Foundation and enjoyed the work of translation and indicated that of all of the things for the Church that he has done, his work on the Encyclopedia is one of his highlights of service.
Don Oldham then explained what he was doing and noted that he had already instituted some of the suggestions that President Kopischke made the day before.
President Kopischke spoke on consolidation of missions in Europe.
This was the first time that President Kopischke and President Kelling had been together since they served in the mission field.
President Kopischke indicated that he was disappointed when President Kelling took him into the office to work there and “learn English.” While he balked at that he was appreciative now because he led to his being called to serve as a Seventy which probably would not have happened had he not listened to his mission president and served in the mission office.
President Kopischke thanked the Foundation for it’s efforts in supporting the mission efforts in Europe and translating the Encyclopedia of Mormonism.

Board members in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, Southwest Bishop’s office, 9501South Poppy Lane,. Sandy, Utah.

Kelsey Lambert was invited to attend but was not able to even though there were a few outstanding bills.
This meeting would be Kelsey Lambert’s final meeting as the work was now coming to an end.
Board members were encouraged to suggest ideas of what to do as a special thank you for Kelsey Lambert’s efforts since the work would not have been where it is without her efforts.
Schwendiman reported that he had sent a thank you to Elder Kopischke but had not had any contact with Gabriele Sirtl at that time. It was agreed that whatever Sister Sirtl agrees with is what President Kopischke would agree with.
A new name was discussed for the website for the Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Don had made it a stand alone website as suggested by President Kopischke
A further discussion was engaged in as to what to do with the remaining material that were on the website. No resolution was made.
Stephen Schwendiman would connect with Gabriele Sirtl regarding the issue of culturalization of the German Language and see what she suggests. Kim Nelson questioned whether a Wiki style process be provided for changes to be made. That subject would need further discussion.
Scott Anderson suggested that Elder F. Enzio Busche who was then living in Alpine, Utah might be a possible speaker for the next yes. Elder Busche was President of the South German Mission in the mid 1980s.
The combination of two missions for the reunion was discussed and felt it worked out well.
Stephen Schwendiman reported on the brief conversation that Jack, Welch, Don Oldham, and Stephen Schwendiman had with Elder Bruce C. Hafen at the Church Office Complex. Elder Hafen expressed his gratitude for what the Foundation was doing and that he wished more groups would do the same. The MoreGood Foundation representative came to the reunion and desired to connect with the German Mission Foundation.
Further investigation needed to be engaged in to see if the Foundation wanted to engaged with MoreGood Foundation.
It was founded by several wealthy members of the Church
MGF is attempting to change the search from negative to positive of the Church
MGF wants to support the German Mission Foundation
The MGF is trying to use non-traditional ways to change the image of the Church.
The MGF executives are in agreement to meet with the Board to determine whether there is a joint relationship that could be done.

Members of the Board who attended in person: Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman; Members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson, Steven Tuft.
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah.

Steven and Beverly Glover, who were in Innsbruck on their mission, desired to stay involved with the Foundation as much as possible from the Europe assignment.
Larry Maloy indicated that he would check and make sure that the Foundation is compliant with all IRS requirements
Stephen Schwendiman reported on a letter he had written to Gabriele Sirtl but also reported that he had not heard back from her.
Don Oldham had done a great job in getting everything placed on the website.
The Board discussed the ability of getting the Encyclopedia linked to the Church website in Europe.
August Schubert and Brother Roth’s group charges money each month to belong and the Board should be cautious about entering into some arrangement with them.
Stephen Schwendiman reported that he was not aware of anything more that Kelsey Lambert had in her possession with everything supposedly completed but that he would follow through with her.
Until Gabriele Sirtl responds from the Area offices, there was little the Board should do in determining what the next projects could be.
Scott Anderson again indicated that the MoreGood Foundation wanted to partner with the Foundation but it was not clear what that relationship would be. It needed to be clarified.
A meeting would be set up with the MoreGood Foundation Executive Board to discuss mutual concerns and how we could help each other. Scott Anderson will help set up joint meeting.
Since Roth/Schubert were doing a lot of translating, the suggestion was made that the Foundation do more than getting involved with hard copy and concentrate on internet items.

Board Members present in person: Scott Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board Members in attendance by phone: Jack Welch.
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah.

The deadline for filing the IRS papers was extended to October 15, 2010.
A final payment was made to Kelsey Lambert for all services she performed for the Foundation.
Stephen Schwendiman communicated with Gabriele Sirtl who said she could not locate the earlier email.
Don Oldham forwarded on to Sirtl the official name of the Encyclopedia
Sirtl informed Don Oldham and Stephen Schwendiman that the Encyclopedia website was officially linked to the official Church websites in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The Foundation’s contact with the Area offices was now with Ralph Gruenke
Sirtl and Gruenke want the Foundation to prepare an article to be placed in the German issue of the Liahona. Jack Welch will work with Hans Kelling to make sure it is correct.
Jack will sift through material and give a summary of the creation of the Encyclopedia’s translation and placement on the web.
No time frame has been given for the preparation of the Liahona article but should be done in the next six weeks.
Sirtl has looked at the Encyclopedia and found some misspellings which need to be corrected.
The suggestion was made that an email type account be linked to the Encyclopedia so that people could respond to the material.
The extent of the review of material could be substantial. Sirtl recommended that GermanFairLDS group be contacted to see if they could be of help. Axzel Gomann was suggested as someone to help review and also coming up with a better name.
Don Oldham was to come up with information as to the number of views and hits the website was getting.
Scott Anderson reported that he contacted representatives of the MoreGood Foundation who would like to meet with the Board at the Board’s convenience. It was suggested that the Board meet with the MoreGood Foundation personnel at the Board’s next scheduled meeting on September 14, 2010 in Provo.
Jack Welch could schedule a room at the Law School or we could meet at the MoreGood Foundation offices in Orem.

Board members in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman, Jack Welch; Board members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson; Others in attendance: Jonathan J. Johnson, president, Karen R. Trifiletti, vice president, Heather Newall, vice-president, and Joseph Josepe of the MoreGood Foundation.
The joint meeting of the German Mission Foundation and the MoreGood Foundation personnel took place at the MoreGood Foundation offices, 1569 North Technology Way, Building A, Suite 1100, Orem, Utah.
* Stephen Schwendiman gave a brief overview to the MoreGood Foundation of how the South German Mission Foundation came into existence and what it saw as its purpose and what it had done.
A discussion was held as to editing the Encyclopedia of Mormonism as well as determining what next to do.
Jonathan Johnson thanked the Board for its introduction and the efforts that it made to get things into German.
Jonathan Johnson indicated that the MoreGood Foundation wanted to expand its efforts into Europe in a better way.
Johnson made a power point showing how over the prior year the vast majority of information on the internet had been anti-church and now it was turning to be more positive in what was happening.
The MGF is currently working with the Missionary Committee to determine what to do and how to do it to improve the nature of the Church.
The MGF wanted to access the Encyclopedia put on line by the SGMF in order to help improve positive nature of the work.
The influence of the Church is based on taking “small” things and making a difference
Jack Welch suggested that the MGF give to the SGMF alist of key terms that the MGF are looking for as far as tracing access to internet searches. Karen Trifiletti wanted to cooperate with the SGMF to increase activity and outreach in Germany.
Board members indicated that the SGMF was in agreement to cooperate with the MGF to increase activity and scope of what will take place in Germany.
The Foundation also agreed to utilize extra articles to answer general questions on the various websites to help further the goals of the organizations.
The MGF desired the SGMF to help in creating organic sites that would then link to the more detailed sites. Such would optimize the sites that would be on a particular subject.
The SGMF was requested to help create a separate site where we can establish German stories and testimonials of common members of the church who would be willing to share their testimonies.
Jonathan Johnson reported that he has access to the 300+ stories of members of the Church in Germany during World War II and could place them on the internet.
The MGF was reminded that the SGMF did not have the staff or the money to do many things discussed because of the nature of our volunteers.
The MGF indicated that if the SGMF could contribute some money to the MGF that it would make quite an impact on what the MGF can do in furthering the increase of positive information on the internet.
There was no clear decision made as to what the South German Mission Foundation would do as the Board needed to discuss it further after this meeting was over.
Don Oldham’s report of access to the SGMF sites was provided to the MGF staff so it could be seen what we were already doing.

Board Members who attended board meeting in person: Scott Anderson, Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman; Board Members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson; Others in attendance by phone: Don Oldham
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Southwest Bishop’s office.
* A discussion was held regarding the hiring of editors and doing further work on the Encyclopedia.
Don Oldham brought up from his years of publishing that there are differences in the talents of people Some are good writers and some are good translators and others are good editors.
Don indicated that Germany has gone through a double language change and that editing can be a very difficult and interesting process. We shouldn’t worry so much about that aspect.
Over time editors can clean up and improve the articles.
The fact that the Foundation Website is linked to the official Church sites in Europe has doubled the traffic of the sites.
Everyone was pleased that President Kopischke was so much involved with notices and getting this information.
A general discussion was held about the possibility of listing individual articles by more descriptive titles and possibly having MoreGood and others list more websites.
Scott Anderson reiterated that the MoreGood Foundation realizes that the South German Mission Foundation something that it really needs and wants to increase its effectiveness in the German area and it really wants to work with us.
All Board members were pleased with the meeting that was held the previous month with the MGF.
Getting the Liahona Article prepared and to Gabrielle Sirtl was the next major priority even before we get the editing completed.
Everyone decided that the Foundation needed to have a second website yet no formal action was taken.
Don Oldham would explore the options.
Scott Anderson suggested that the second site could be used to place the 300 or so articles on Saints during World War II.
A discussion was held as to whether a presentation should be made at the next reunion by the MoreGood Foundation. No decision was made.
Everyone agreed that Scott Anderson should contact F. Enzio Busche to see if he could attend the next reunion and address the missionaries.

Board members in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson. Others in attendance by phone: Don Oldham
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah, Southwest Bishop’s office.
* Don Oldham noted that he currently has an office in Frankfurt for his business and should be able to visit with Gabrielle Sirtl when he is there but was not able to this past occasion.
The Liahona Article needed to be completed so that it could run in the German edition
Stephen Schwendiman reported that he had the summary of what articles were accessed on the website and would get with Karen Trifiletti and send it on to Gabriele Sirtl.
It was agreed that when the next editing takes place that it goes methodically and not rapidly to ensure accuracy.
Hans Kelling needs to be consulted before any decision is made regarding new editing and review
Everyone liked the Jordan Institute facility and wanted to retain it as a place for the reunion.
Elder F. Enzio Busche agreed to come to the reunion and join with the missionaries.
Also, Elder Marlin K. Jensen, The Church Historian is also available and would be willing to attend.

Board members in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Larry Maloy, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson, Jack Welch; Others in attendance by phone: Don Oldham.
The board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah, Southwest corner Bishop’s office.
* Don Oldham reported that there was much information on the website
The purpose of the website was to make it available to Church members and not break it up.
The Karen Trifiletti reported that the Website cannot be used as anticipated because of specialized rules of Google.
The MoreGood Foundation can link the Encyclopedia and other material. There are multiple interests that must be balanced.
The goal is to get optimal use and reach as many as possible
A way needs to be determined for the MoreGood Foundation and the South German Mission Foundation to work together.
The Board supports what the MGF is doing but there is confusion as to why there are so many difficulties with the MGF in not accessing and linking the Foundation’s material.
It was suggested that another meeting be held with Don Oldham, our webmaster and Karen Trifiletti to iron out any problems.
Further discussion was held regarding the editing of articles that are currently on the website.
Stephen Schwendiman and Jack Welch will meet with Hans Kelling and go over options and suggestions he has.

Board members in attendance in person: Larry Maloy, Scott Anderson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Kim Nelson
The board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah, Southwest bishop’s office

Don Oldham, Stephen Schwendiman and Scott Anderson by phone met with Karen Trifiletti at The MoreGood Foundation.
There was a legitimate misunderstanding about what the two groups could do and allow.
A healthy discussion was held about how the Encyclopedia of Mormonism could be used by other websites
The German Mission Foundation was desirous to flood the internet with positive information about the Church
The editing process for articles should be based on the priority list prepared by Kelsey Lambert.
F. Enzio Busche confirmed that he will be available for the reunion and it will be advertized in the “The New Key” and announcement.
Scott Anderson suggested that the Director of the MoreGood Foundation be invited to the reunion to give a brief explanation of what the two groups are doing together.
Once again the article for the German Liahona be completed and run in the German publication.

Board members who attended the meeting in person: Scott Anderson, Kim Nelson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Jack Welch. The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah, Southwest bishop’s office.

Jack Welch and Stephen Schwendiman met with Hans Kelling about the possible editing and revisions of the Encyclopedia of Mormonism.
Hans Kelling did not feel he had any contacts in Germany who we capable of engaging in the ongoing editing process.
Hans Kelling still wants to be involved and seem pleased bout the role he would continue to play.
The article for the Liahona had been shared with members of the Board. Before submission, the Board members wanted to review it again.
It was reiterated that the employees at the Area office could not do the editing on Church time in their official capacities.
Lowell Barber, former mission president of the Hamburg Mission suggested several names of individuals who could serve on a focus group.
Scott Anderson, Kim Nelson, Don Oldham, Stephen Schwendiman had a meeting with Karen Trifiletti about material that could be included on the websites, such as the Ten Questions and other articles that the Foundation had available.
With the Encyclopedia website becoming a stand-alone site, a discussion was held about what to do with the other Foundation material. No decision was made.
A further discussion was engaged in as to linking all of the material to various sites to make sure the highest amount of notoriety.
Former missionaries would be encouraged to write stories, experiences, memories to be shared with others of the Foundation.
Scott Anderson reported that the Church Missionary Department is encouraging the creation of profiles of members which could be used to interest people to access positive material for the Church.
Jack Welch suggested that Jonathan Johnson be invited to attend the reunion or have material that could be handed out to those in attendance.
Jack Welch suggested that Stephen Schwendiman invite Gabriele Sirtl to the reunion since she would be in town for General Conference.
Every board member discussed at length that the Foundation should be following the efforts of the missionary committee and doing what the Prophet wants us to do.

Board members who attended the meeting in person: Scott Anderson, Kim Nelson, Stephen Schwendiman.
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah, Southwest bishop’s office.

A quorum of the board was not available but the discussion continued nonetheless.
It was agreed that because of Don Oldham’s importance to the Foundation and its business that Don Oldham be approved and accepted as a member of the Board and be listed with the others. Agreed.
Stephen Schwendiman indicated that he has served as President for four years and if someone else wanted to assume the assignment he was willing to step down. Scott Anderson said that such progress had been made for four years no change should be made. This was agreed to.
Stephen Schwendiman reported that he had sent Foundation report letters to President Thomas S. Monson, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, President Erich Kopischke, Elder Bruce C. Hafen, Elder David A. Bednar, but to this point no responses have been received.
The Liahona article had been sent to President Erich Kopischke, Sister Gabriele Sirtl and Brother Ralph Gruenke of the area office.
Ralph Gruenke wrote to Schwendiman that he has no control over the content of the Liahona but indicated that “a brief note in the Liahona will inform readers of the Encyclopedia.”
It appears there will be no “full article” about the Foundation in the Liahona. Yet to be seen.
Stephen Schwendiman reported that he had visited with a single sister with his Single Stake assignment who works for The Church News to see if something could be placed in the news.
Schwendiman gave a copy of the Liahona article to the Sister, Marianne Holman as a start to see if it could be placed in the Church News
With Jack Welch’s suggestion, the Board agreed to authorize expenditure of funds to help set up a wiki-style editing process for the encyclopedia in conjunction with BYU Studies, and BYU computer people.
Board members, at the suggestion of Kim Nelson, could translate various talks and articles had written or spoken that could be added to the material available by the Foundation.
There was still some confusion about what the MoreGood Foundation wanted to do with the Foundation. Kim Nelson indicated that he would meet with Karen Trifiletti to discuss.
Steven Glover reported that from Austria that the Austrians did not like the idea that our websites were “German” and not inclusive with them.
Karen Trifiletti suggested that the initiative be called the “German Language Initiative” or something like that to be more inclusive for the Swiss and Austrian members.
Stephen Schwendiman reported that he had forwarded the names and email addressed of our latest translators to the MoreGood Foundation: Lore Schultheiss, Benjamin Kopischke, Christine Ricks, and Jasmin Hammer.
Cheryl Whitelaw who served under President Fetzer and was serving in Germany with her husband on a mission reported that the Munich office did not have record for 1962-1965.
Brent Jackson offered to give copies of the “Ham” print be accepted as a donation and then used for fundraising purposes by the Foundation.
The formal agreement that the Board officers and directors be approved as authorized and that they be voted on at the annual reunion.

Board members in attendance in persons: Larry Anderson, Scott Anderson, Larry Maloy, Kim Nelson, Don Oldham, Stephen Schwendiman, Robert Sykes, Stephen Schwendiman.
Special guest at the reunion: F. Enzio Busche, Emeritus Member of the Seventy.
The Annual Reunion and Foundation meeting was held at the Jordan Institute of Religion, SLCC campus.

Scrapbooks and letters from the Bavarian Mission provided b Donald Dunn in the state of Washington were placed on tables along with a complete set of newsletters from the Fetzer and Gunther years.
Scott Anderson had the original hard bound copies of the testimonies of German Saints prepared for the Church and explained it to the contents to the attendees. Brent Jackson brought the original and copies of the painting of Rottenburg Ob der Taube and Sister Haun’s home and had copies available for donations to the Foundation
The officers and board members of the Foundation were approved by attendees
Kim Nelson took a few minutes to describe the MoreGood Foundation and the Foundations relationship with it.
Elder F. Enzio Busche came with his daughter and visited with many of those in attendance
A report was given by Stephen Schwendiman about some of the success of the Foundation over the year
Don Oldham explained the website and traffic
Jack Welch discussed the ongoing efforts to review the translation and ongoing projects
Stephen Schwendiman read portions of letters from President Thomas S. Monson, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, and Elder Bruce C. Hafen who acknowledged the efforts of the Foundation.
Elder F. Enzio Busche then addressed the attendees:
He told of his years as branch president in Germany
He made the decision to be inclusive and that people are important
Miracles happened when they wanted to build a chapel
The man who helped them get the building had been a prisoner of war and owed everything to a memes of the Church who helped him at that time The Lord provided the way for everything to be done
Addressed anti-Church group and six of those in attendance were baptized
He told of how the Lord will help us in times of need.

Members of the Board in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Larry Maloy, Kim Nelson, Stephen Schwendiman; members of the board in attendance in person: Jack Welch
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion at 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah, Southwest Bishop’s office.

The actions of the March Board meeting were ratified in that there was no quorum available then.
Jack Welch reported that contributions from the sale of the Hahn print could be tax deductible as was the donation from Brent Jackson
Elder Marlin Jensen told Jack Welch that he is interested in what the Foundation is doing and would like to attend our next reunion.
It was gratifying to know that leadership of the Church in so many positions know what the Foundation is doing.
Jack Welch and Scott Anderson met with Lynn Hansen who translated many of the stories of the German Saints during World War II BYU Studies turned down the offer to publish the material
Jack suggested that the Foundation join in with financial contribution to see that it was published and that it could cooperate with BYU Studies and maybe even MoreGood
Scott Anderson met with Marlin K. Jensen about the stories of the Saints with World War II.
Scott asked Elder Jensen if the Foundation could edit and publish stories
Elder Jensen said he had written authorization from each person to publish his/her stories
Elder Jensen said that he saw no reason why the Foundation could not publish them
Jack Welch already looked into the cost of editing and print-on-demand process at $4,000 and the Foundation voted unanimously to authorize such expenditure of funds. If Lynn Hansen agrees
Jack Welch will be going to Germany and will check with August Schubert about editing and translation processes for further works.
Kim Nelson took all of the newsletters and material from the reunion and read through much of it to determine what could be available for placement with MoreGood Foundations sites.
Kim Nelson and Karen Trifelleti met to discuss what material was ready for placement on the websites.
Jack Welch will prepare an article on the discovery of Chiasmus for placement on the website.

Board members in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Larry Maloy, Kim Nelson, Stephen Schwendiman. Board members in attendance by phone: Jack Welch
The board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah, Southwest Bishop’s office

No meeting would be held in July as many would be out of state or on vacation.
It was determined that the extra prints of the Hahn Home by Brent Jackson be kept for special purposes and fundraising .
It was suggested that one print each be framed and given to President Thomas S. Monson, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Elder David Bednar, President Erich Kopischke, and Elder Bruce Hafen.
One copy of the print was given to Jack Welch to deliver to Hans Kelling for his efforts in helping with the Encyclopedia of Mormonism
It was hoped that if prints are framed that possible meetings could be held with the Brethren to personally deliver them on behalf of the Foundation Members of the Board were continuing to contact individuals for possible input of future translators and those who could assist the Foundation
BYU Studies has freed up a typesetter and agreed with Brother Hansen to publish approximately 200 of the stories that Lynn Hansen thought were the better ones. The printing will be on “print-on-demand”
Elder Marlin K. Jensen reported to Scott Anderson that he was pleased with what the Foundation was doing with the stories of the Saints in World War II. The foundation also had all 700 stories in digital format that could be accessed.
Kim Nelson will be the liaison with the MoreGood Foundation as to how and what material will be placed for the use of the Foundation.
Kim Nelson will be sending out select articles from the newsletters for comment before any will be posted on the websites
Members of the Board are concerned that younger former missionaries need to be recruited to participate with the Board to help its continuance. Everyone was urged to think of how this can be done.
It was a unanimous expression that everyone involved with the Foundation was gratified with its efforts and what it is being able to accomplish.

Board members in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Kim Nelson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Don Oldham
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah, Southwest Bishop’s office.

Don Oldham reported that he had placed all approved material on the website, including the publication of ten questions
Kim Nelson and Don Oldham met with MoreGood Foundation and the MGF is seeking much more material than what has been translated into German Since the MGF has much information that could be translated into German, the question was at what point the South German Mission Foundation would be able to do so.
Don Oldham indicated that the Foundation should definitely partner with the MGF because of its ability to move material around and forward to get better application on google.
The MoreGood Foundation wanted to reserve some ability to determine what is more critical to get the message out.
Don suggested and it was agreed to that the Foundation had to have some review ability over the material even though it would be a partnership. The Board agreed unanimously to definitely associate with the MoreGood Foundation
Stephen Schwendiman further indicated that he would again contact Kelsey Lambert to see if she still had an interest in working with the Foundation on such projects.
Jack Welch needed to again see if the Foundation could utilize German students for the work of translating other material.
The MoreGood Foundation wanted to know if the Foundation would agree to help fund translations in Spanish but Karen Trifelleti was told that we would only concentrate on German
Don Oldham indicated that since we are “trail blazers” that others might want to join with us in doing something similar
Scott Anderson said that we should not branch off too far and that working with the MoreGood Foundation which already had a working relationship with the Missionary Committee we should hold off on other avenues.
Kim Nelson and Scott Anderson told MoreGood Foundation that if they find sponsors for other languages the Foundation will help them with our experiences of doing the translating
Again the suggestion was made through Kim Nelson that contact be made to see if the Board can meet with President Thomas Monson and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf and make presentations.
Don Oldham explained how adding a few stories each month “refreshes” the search engines and drives traffic to our site.
Kim Nelson was assigned to meet with MoreGood Foundation personnel to assess what types of websites, pictures, color, layout, etc. is necessary for the work to progress.
Jack Welch announced that Elder Marlin K. Jensen agreed to meet with us at our next reunion and Foundation meeting in April

Board members in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Larry Maloy, Kim Nelson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Don Oldham
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah, Southwest Bishop’s office.

Discussion was held regarding hiring of new translators who would be paid by BYU or MoreGood Foundation.
Kelsey Lambert responded to Stephen Schwendiman that she would continue to work with the Foundation as long as it would not take more than 10-15 hours a month
Stephen Schwendiman and Scott Anderson met with individuals from the Church offices to discuss a project called “Vineyard.”
The Church is beginning a new program to provide members opportunities to help in translation as volunteers
Church offices were aware of what the Foundation was doing with translation of the Encyclopedia and wanted our input as to what worked and did not work The Church was exploring the option of asking members to help in translation for many different languages
Scott and Schwendiman did not see how the Foundation and the Church could partner in that there were different objectives and funding mechanisms. The meeting was more of an affirmation that the Church employees were on the right track.
Schwendiman and Anderson agreed that the Foundation would be willing to work with other groups or missionary organizations in helping the Vineyard program work.
Kim Nelson reported that the MoreGood Foundation was translating many short articles and that the Foundation are updating sites.
Don Oldham was willing to help the MoreGood Foundation to obtain .de registrations because he has a business in Germany
Don Oldham reported on a conversation he had with MoreGood Foundation employees where they are excited at the possibilities that the German Mission Foundation is adding to their abilities.
The MoreGood Foundation will not break up the Encyclopedia of Mormonism site and let it stand alone
Jack Welch indicated that there were may articles by scholars that might be available for placement on the websites or even translation that we can use.
Don Oldham suggested that the Foundation do an outreach effort to find other missions or groups who would be willing to do what we are doing.
A discussion was engaged in as to whether the Foundation should get involved with videos in addition to translation efforts. Further discussion be necessary.

Members of the Board who were present in person at the meeting: Scott Anderson, Kim Nelson, Stephen Schwendiman; Members of the Board attending by phone: Jack Welch.
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion at 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah, southwest bishop’s office.

Stephen Schwendiman confirmed that Kelsey Lambert agreed to work with the Board again to oversee editing of the articles of the Encyclopedia of Mormonism and any other efforts the Board desires.
Jack Welch indicated that foreign students are limited do 20 hours of work a week.
The Board will prepare instructions for the translators so they understand what is expected.
Kim Nelson contacted Bishop Hagan, the president of the German branch to see if members of his branch would be willing to volunteer to help in translation. He was positive in his response
The question was discussed as to who would select those who would help, they have to be familiar with the current German language usage.
The Board reserves the right to choose which articles to translate for the MoreGood Foundation.
The MoreGood Foundation is already using material on “Mormonengeschichte.de”
Scott Anderson was called into a special meeting of the Vineyard program
The Church wants to use the Foundation as a pilot for translating CES material “Teachings of the Prophets”
This is an 80 page CES manual that the Church wanted translated
Church employees wee excited about using the Foundation in this effort.
The Foundation Board was unanimous to join with The Church in the efforts with Vineyard
Kim Nelson said he was in contact with Lore Shultheiss and she was anxious to provide more translation services for the foundation
Scott Anderson said he would let the Church know of the Foundation’s approval of helping
Jack Welch reported that the World War II and the Saints was designed as a preliminary galley layout approved by BYU studies. A final edit is being done.

Members of the Board in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Kim Nelson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Jack Welch, Don Oldham, Bob Sykes
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah, Southwest Bishop’s office.

Doug Bayless from the Church contacted Scott Anderson to discuss the Foundation’s involvement in their pilot program.
Lore Schultheiss has completed the entire translation of the CES manual and has submitted it to the Church for review.
Lore is so fast no one can keep up with her
The Church program is to involve volunteers but in this pilot case, the Foundation is the volunteer as we are paying Lore to do the translation.
The Church is looking at possibilities of scholarships, etc to help pay for the translations
Bayless and others from the Church want to meet with the Foundation again
Jack Welch reported that there are bids out for the publication of the WW II booklet
A certain number of books will be printed
Others will be a print on demand order
The Foundation will pay for at least ten copies to be given to Lynn Hanson
Elder Marlin Jensen should also be given one acknowledging his efforts in getting the material available for publication
Lynn Hanson should be invited to the reunion and given a certificate of gratitude for his efforts
The Book will be available through BYU Studies
The Foundation board agreed that on occasion certificates of gratitude should be given to those who help the Foundation in its efforts
The name of the Website should be “Mormonengeschichte” because the stories are history and not just stories
Elder Marlin Jensen authorized the Foundation to place all of the stories electronically on the websites.
No further information was available about posting already prepared scholarly articles from professors on various topics and whether they could be used on the web sites
The MoreGood Foundation and Kim Nelson have provided Bishop Hagan some articles for translation but have not heard back from him.

Board members in attendance in person: Scott Anderson, Larry Maloy, Kim Nelson, Stephen Schwendiman; Board members in attendance by phone: Larry Anderson, Jack Welch.
The Board meeting was held at the Sandy Institute of Religion, 9501 South Poppy Lane, Sandy, Utah, Southwest Bishop’s office

The WW II books were printed and available
Jack Welch suggested that copies of the book be delivered personally to Lynn Hanson. Stephen Schwendiman and Kim Nelson volunteered to take them to and meet with Hanson.
The Board agreed for the Foundation to pay for the printing of 200 hard copies
The hard copies will be used for fund raising purposes at $6.00 per copy
Kim Nelson handed out copies of various articles as samples of the type of material that could be translated from material provided by Dan Peterson
Kim Nelson also reported that he looked at an additional 339 stores of the Saints that could be translated and put on the web and narrowed the number to 162 that would be appropriate
With an additional 50-60 articles for translation the estimated cost would be $3,000.
The question was raised as to who would do quality review and control of the articles since Hans Kelling was no longer involved with the Foundation.
Jack Welch suggested to have Hans Kelling look at a few of the articles to see what he says
Kim Nelson chose several articles for Lore Schultheiss to translate and then take to Hans Kelling before a final decision is made
It was suggested that if possible that President Kopischke could help the Foundation get conversion stories from new members to post on the sites. If done, someone in the Area office would need to help coordinate and edit for publication
Stephen Schwendiman will contact President Kopischke and report what the Foundation is doing and what it would like to do and get his input
Schwendiman will also request of President Kopischke if there is anything the Foundation can do to support and help the members and Church in Europe so we don’t compete
Scott Anderson reported that the Vineyard personnel are excited at what the Foundation has done and what it continues to do
Lore Schultheiss was able to translate the entire CES manual of 80 pages in three weeks
Vineyard indicated that they needed to figure out how to have two more reviewers to review and how to get them to do it
According to Vineyard, once volunteers translate, there must be professional reviewers to sign off and that is the problem that the program needs to address
The question was raised as to whether the Foundation could hire some of the reviewers for the Church. No answer given but there was a question as to whether the Foundation had sufficient funds to do so.
Kim Nelson said he would contact Bishop Hagan to see if his group could help Vineyard in that regard.
While Don Oldham was not present he reported that since April 2011, there had been 191,998 page views and approximately 2,000 hits a month on the Encyclopedia website.