Monday, April 7, 2014

Swiss mountains again

This is the first of several posts again. It seems we get pretty busy and involved and I can't get to the posts as often as I would like. Expect at least 3 posts in the next few days. We just had a wonderful weekend of conference and also activities with the branch.

This post is about our most recent inspection tour of the missionary apartments in Switzerland. Each one of these trips shows us the beauties in a different time of year. This Spring came earlier than it did last year and it is warm a lot earlier. You probably do not need to be told that it is beautiful here. Anyway, enjoy these pictures!

Well, OK. This one is not Switzerland. I just wanted to show the beautiful daffodils here. The Germans call them Easter Bells. The grass areas area full of them. (And yes, there really are dandelions here as well. I just did not see them much before.)

This is Lake Zurich, as seen out the window of a missionary apartment in Richterswil, Switzerland.

Here is a mountain range we see as we travel in the area of the Ebnat, Switzerland missionary apartment. The rang is called the Churfristen mountains.

The snowy mountain on the left (behind the snowless mountain) is called Säntis. It is very prominent as seen from Germany in our area where we live. The main one in this picture is called Altmann and is not as high as Säntis. Säntis is the highest mountain in this area, though both of these are not as high as our high mountains in Utah. Säntis is 2501 meters in elevation (8205 ft).

Here is another shot of Altmann, along with a Swiss flag.

This is in Dornbirn, Austria, where there are four elders in an apartment. We saw this zeppelin in the sky.

On our final trip home, we drove through this area where the road runs right through a barn. The speed limit at this area is 100 km (about 60 mph). Ever tried driving through a barn at 60? (we were not going that fast)


It was a beautiful day and we loved especially spending some time with each of the elders and sister missionaries. They are wonderful. Most of the missionaries in Switzerland are from Europe, because the Swiss government does not grant visas to Americans (at all). We have some amazing missionaries from all over Europe.

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