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*K**** (excerpt from letter January 5th<\/sup>)<\/p>\n We took a bus about an hour out to a town called\u00a0L\u00fcbbecke, at the bus station from Minden we met a guy named\u00a0K****. He is from a country on the Red Sea. When he was a teenager he got arrested for fighting the government and spent a year in prison, then 3 months in solitary confinement where he was only fed 1 piece of bread a day… he said when you begged for more food they would come in with rifles and shoot at the ceiling. Then a couple years ago (he\u2019s like 28 now) his mom paid to smuggle him out of the country by boat, the boat capsized and most of his friends died. He was then rescued by the Italian navy, and later made his way to Germany. He told us that God has saved his life for a reason. He\u2019s been in Germany for a year now and is saving money for his family so they can come here eventually. He told us all this on the bus ride to\u00a0L\u00fcbbecke\u00a0where he lives in immigrant housing. We asked him about his living conditions and he said he doesn’t think about it much because complaining about it won\u2019t help the situation. He said we could meet later in 2 weeks, and he loves to meet with people like us because we give him moral support! We taught him about the Book of Mormon and he said when we come that we can bring him a copy! He was a way cool guy!<\/p>\n *Eritrea<\/p>\n Eritrea is a country in the Horn of Africa. Its capital is Asmara, it is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the South, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeastern and eastern parts of Eritrea have an extensive coastline along the Red Sea, across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen.\u00a0The nation has a total area of approximately 117,600 km2 (45,406 sq mi), and includes the Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands. Its name Eritrea is based on the Greek name for the Red Sea (\u1f18\u03c1\u03c5\u03b8\u03c1\u1f70 \u0398\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03c3\u03b1 Erythra Thalassa), which was first adopted for Italian Eritrea in 1890.<\/p>\n