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The famous Kapellbr\u00fccke in Luzern, in a Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph taken by Luca Casartelli back on 31 August 2013, almost exactly nine years ago. It was originally built in the latter half of the fourteenth century.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Well, our stay in the Berner Oberland has finally come to an end.\u00a0 I\u2019ll do a retrospective on it in a day or two, when I get a chance.\u00a0 (I just know that everybody out there is dying to read my travelogue!)\u00a0 In self-justification, I point out that this blog sometimes functions as a kind of journal for me.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re in Kloten now, near the Z\u00fcrich Airport, waiting for our various flights in the morning.\u00a0 I actually have a missionary connection here in Kloten, too:\u00a0 I spent some time here as an assistant zone leader and then as a zone leader.\u00a0 One of my companions in Kloten<\/a> has remained a friend and even a colleague ever since, and he and three other colleagues have recently published a book<\/a> with the Interpreter Foundation.\u00a0 Moreover, I have a (to me) quite faith-promoting story to tell out of my time in Kloten, which I may or may not ever relate on a public blog.<\/p>\n

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Someone asked me, a couple of days ago, how many convert baptisms I had on my mission.\u00a0 I responded that I had baptized my father on the evening that I was set apart as a missionary \u2014 which was a wonderful and life-transforming thing for me \u2014 but that, otherwise, I had had<\/em> no convert baptisms on my mission.<\/p>\n

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Living, as they do, in a very stable, highly educated, extremely prosperous, and largely crime-free country that hasn\u2019t been involved in a war for roughly two centuries or so and whose landscape ranges from beautiful to spectacularly<\/em> beautiful, it\u2019s not surprising that the Swiss are comfortable. \u00a0(Some critics say \u2014 though I probably wouldn\u2019t \u2014 that they tend to be a bit complacent<\/em>.) \u00a0They\u2019re not necessarily seeking to make big changes.\u00a0 Nor, on the whole, are they religiously anguished nor energetically searching for new spiritual paths.<\/p>\n

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So serving as a missionary in German-speaking Switzerland, while it had its substantial personal rewards and while I am passionately in love with the country, posed some challenges. \u00a0On the whole, people just weren\u2019t interested. \u00a0We rarely got in doors, rarely taught lessons, and only very<\/em> rarely got beyond first<\/em> or second<\/em> lessons.<\/p>\n

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I would have to catch myself from time to time, realizing that I hadn\u2019t seriously thought in weeks<\/em> of seeing a convert baptism. \u00a0My job was simply to get up every morning, get out on the doors by 9 AM, ring doorbells all day, have the doors shut in my face, and repeat the same general plan the next day, as well. \u00a0Rinse and repeat.<\/p>\n

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About midway through my mission, we were given a new edition of the general Church missionary handbook. \u00a0One line in it provoked considerable mirth among the missionaries. \u00a0As I recall, it read almost exactly as follows, stating a goal for us: \u00a0\u201cFind a golden family each week; baptize a golden family each month.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That might have fit Mexico or Brazil at the time, but, in Switzerland, finding a single \u201cgolden\u201d individual<\/em> over the course of two years<\/em> would have been a satisfying and not necessarily likely achievement.<\/p>\n

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One day, while I was serving in the mission home at Pilatusstrasse 11 in Z\u00fcrich, my mission president, Edwin Q. Cannon<\/a>, called me into his office. \u00a0He had just received some sort of letter or newsletter from his home neighborhood in Salt Lake City. \u00a0\u201cBrother Peterson,\u201d he said to me rather wistfully, \u201cdo you realize that the Ensign Stake mission out-baptized us last year?\u201d \u00a0(That, of course, would have been a local, part-time missionary effort in the very headquarters city of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>, as opposed to our admittedly relatively small force of full-time missionaries in Germanic Switzerland.)<\/p>\n

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I should mention, by the way, that President Cannon was one of the kindest and best men I\u2019ve ever known.*<\/strong>\u00a0 And I don\u2019t say that lightly.\u00a0 (I\u2019m happily aware that many missionaries hold their mission presidents in very high esteem and affection.)\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard of other mission presidents who have been strict by-the-rules types.\u00a0 President Cannon, however, was not.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t lay down a lot of rules.\u00a0 He trusted us and he expected us to serve faithfully, and I think that, overwhelmingly, we tried not to disappoint him.\u00a0 (I did let him down once \u2014 I can\u2019t even remember what the issue was \u2014 and I vowed that it would never, ever, ever<\/em> happen again.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t yell at me or rebuke me.\u00a0 It might have been easier if he had<\/em>.\u00a0 He was simply, gently, disappointed.)\u00a0 Moreover, his wife, Janath Russell Cannon<\/a>, was no less impressive.<\/p>\n

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The L\u00f6wendenkmal or \u201cLion Monument\u201d in Luzern, designed by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen and carved into a rock cliff face during 1820-1821 by Lukas Ahorn. The monument \u2014 depicting a mortally wounded lion with a broken-off spear in its side and a shield by its head bearing the Swiss cross \u2014 commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution. Larger than life, the sculpture sits in its own secluded park, with a large pond separating it from viewers.
(Wikimedia Commons public domain photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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But back, though, to my statement the other day that I had no convert baptisms in Switzerland.\u00a0 After saying that, I quickly added that such an answer was too simple.\u00a0 Let me now elaborate on that just a bit by mentioning a few things in no particular order:<\/p>\n

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Anecdote 1:\u00a0<\/strong> Driving today from the home near Interlaken where we had been staying to our hotel near the Z\u00fcrich Airport, we dropped through the pleasant town of Luzern.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the rain was coming down by the bucket for much of our time there, with only short interruptions.\u00a0 So we abandoned the idea of going up Mount Pilatus or even strolling along the wonderful Lake of the Four Forest Cantons.\u00a0 We contented ourselves merely with briefly visiting the beautiful Kapellbr\u00fccke<\/em> and Bertel Thorvaldsen\u2019s famous L\u00f6wendenkmal<\/em>, having dinner near it in order to escape the downpour, and then driving northward on our way to Z\u00fcrich.\u00a0 (Thorvaldsen, incidentally, is the Danish sculptor who created the original Christus<\/em> statue that is so familiar to Latter-day Saints, as well as the statues of the apostles that are now, in precise marble copies, featured in the visitors center of the Rome Italy Temple.<\/p>\n

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Right near the L\u00f6wendenkmal<\/em>, though, is a high-end souvenir shop where, many years ago, the missionaries working in Luzern met a young American girl who, to further her German-language studies, had taken a job behind the counter so that she could live in Europe.\u00a0 My companion and I were stationed at the time in Zug and living in Ober\u00e4geri (whereby hangs its own tale), but the ward that we attended and the district to which we belonged were located in Luzern.\u00a0 So we came down every weekend to work in Luzern and attend services there, staying over on Saturday nights and sometimes on Friday nights, and we were deeply involved in teaching her.\u00a0 She was so golden a contact, and gave such perfect \u201cBrother Brown\u201d answers (which is to say, almost as if they came right out of the missionary training material of the time), that I actually sometimes wondered whether the Luzern missionaries weren\u2019t pulling our leg with some elaborate prank.\u00a0 But they weren\u2019t, and we were happy to attend her baptism.\u00a0 She later came and finished her degree at BYU and married some lucky guy in the temple.<\/p>\n

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\"Thorvaldsen<\/a>
The replica of Thorvaldsen\u2019s \u201cChristus,\u201d the resurrected Christ, that has stood for many years on Temple Square in Salt Lake City.
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Anecdote 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Later, while I working in the mission home, one of the German-language Swiss television stations decided to do a \u201cmagazine\u201d segment on Latter-day Saint missionaries.\u00a0 Another elder and I were featured in what eventually aired.\u00a0 Some time thereafter, a young man and woman who had seen the segment contacted the Swiss mission office, expressing interest in learning more about the Church.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t seem outwardly promising \u2014 and not merely because his hair reached the small of his back and his beard was almost as long.\u00a0 They had been living together, unmarried.\u00a0 But they eagerly accepted the Gospel, moved apart, received baptism, and \u2014 I don\u2019t think that this would happen very often today \u2014 he eventually served what was apparently a very successful mission to an English-speaking country.<\/p>\n

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Anecdote 3:<\/strong>\u00a0 One day, while my companion and I were tracting in the Interlaken area, I was deeply surprised to see a woman answer our ringing of her doorbell . . . and to have a powerful internal voice tell me, not precisely in words but still very clearly, \u201cShe\u2019s going to be baptized.\u201d\u00a0 And, in fact, she let us in the door. \u00a0We introduced ourselves, set up an appointment, returned, and taught her a lesson. \u00a0Perhaps \u2014 I can\u2019t quite recall \u2014 we even returned later to teach her a second lesson.<\/p>\n

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And then she told us that she wasn\u2019t interested.<\/p>\n

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I was puzzled by that, since the impression had been so distinct and so unexpected.\u00a0 Come summer, my companion and I were transferred from the area, which was (and is) a major tourist destination. \u00a0That was that.<\/p>\n

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In the fall, a new missionary pair were assigned to the area. \u00a0Looking through our record books, they saw the woman\u2019s name and address and decided to look her up.\u00a0 She consented to be taught further lessons and was eventually baptized. \u00a0Roughly a year after our first contact with her.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve thought about this experience many times since. \u00a0It seems pretty clear to me that we can receive genuine inspiration and still not know or understand the details, that we can even have true intuitions about the future (as happened to me once in Kloten, and has happened a number of times since) and yet incorrectly visualize how those intuitions will be fulfilled. \u00a0(The latter has happened to me on several occasions.) \u00a0As the apostle Paul expressed it in 1 Corinthians 13, in this life \u201cwe see through a glass, darkly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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*<\/strong>\u00a0 I only just now noticed a very surprising feature of the article about Edwin Q. Cannon on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

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(To be continued.)<\/p>\n

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Posted from Kloten, Switzerland<\/p>\n

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