Anniversary - part 1 - the Swiss Temple

We have made it a practice to go to the temple, when possible, on or near our anniversary dates. This year is our fortieth wedding anniversary. We began our life together as a family in the Salt Lake Temple and have had a glorious learning experience ever since. We have been truly blessed with such a wonderful family. We love (and miss) our children and grandchildren, but know that the Lord is blessing each and every one of them. Forty years ago we could not have imagined that we would be in Switzerland for our anniversary this year. It is a highlight of our lives to be able to serve the Lord together here in this land. Our only regret is not being able to have our dear ones with us at this time.

These three blog posts will give you a glimpse of the beauty here. The first is of our experiences at and near the temple. Of course, we cannot share what we experience in the temple, but it was wonderful. We were able to do family name work for some of our members here. We first were able to do some initiatory ordinance work. At first, I had some concerns that it was not going to be possible, because of the limited number of workers at the temple that day, but there were wonderful people there who helped us. Sister B. was able to do some names and hers were in France and Italian. On my side, my workers spoke French and Italian as well, but one was totally blind as well. Our sessions those two days were first in French (we were witnesses) and German.

Following the temple work, we headed out to Lucerne. Our next stop was to visit the mountain there, called Pilatus. That will be in the next post.

I was able to get this beautiful picture in the morning, just as the sun was rising and the temple lights were about to be turned off.

Here is Sister B approaching the temple

In fairness, she insisted on taking a picture of me as well.

Here is the Herberge (Hostel) where we stayed the night. It is a very spartan accommodation, but very welcome to the travelers who come to the temple from many lands.

A view of the alps from the front of the temple.

We went to a hotel restaurant for a meal the first night. It was a very nice meal. Our waiter spoke English. He was from Pakistan.

Clouds and mountains on our approach to Lucern.