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Head of Mission Returns to the States


Proofreader “Elder” Kenneth Allen and his wife Susan Allen Return to California

By Holly Fox

As a young adult, Susan Allen always wanted to go on a mission for the LDS (Mormon) Church.  But beau Kenneth Allen convinced her to marry him with the promise that they would serve a mission together later.  Thirty-five years later, as soon as their youngest son left the house (to serve his mission), they offered their talent and foreign language skills and were sent to the Institute Center for Young Adults at the LDS Church here in Hamburg.

Elder Allen, a patent lawyer from Palo Alto, California, who his wife describes as “so nit picky about grammar,” soon found a copy of The Hamburg Express.  He volunteered to proofread it as a service project and has done up to thirty articles every edition since.

 At the Center, he and his wife, have been involved in a variety of programs and events for young adults of all faiths, including weekly religion classes, English and German language classes, movie nights and dance nights, and have worked to provide “a home away from home” for the hundreds of young people who come by.

Anxious to return home to their children and grandchildren after 19 months, they are still sad to be leaving their “kids” here in Hamburg.