We got word yesterday that they are going to close the Swiss Temple for major repairs. It has been in constant use since 1954 when it was the only temple in all of Europe. It will be closed for about 15 months, so we are just waiting now to see where we will be reassigned.
The official moving notice
Needless to say, this was quite a blow! Everyone was and is just stunned. We know we cannot be sent to a place as nice as this is, and yet we will do whatever the Lord wants us to do. We really love it here and just know that we can't find as good a place to live as we have here, but we will have another experience in another area.
This is a beautiful country, and we want to get out and see as much of Switzerland as we can in the short time we have left here. We had hoped to wait till summer to really tour the country. We have our abonnement [travel card] for half price fares [on the train], which will help if we can have good weather.
February 24, 1990 - We just got word that we have been transferred to the temple in Friedrichsdorf (Frankfurt), Germany. We will move on April 14, traveling by train with a group of six couples and two single sisters.
We later learned that the plans were changed so that we would travel by bus, which would be much better than hoping that our luggage gets there and having to transfer several times on a train.
14 April, 1990 - Moving Day!
A little male ingenuity helped move the heavy things.
Raining! So we loaded the bus in the rain and left our good friends and our very good apartment house for Frankfurt. It was a pleasant ride, and we arrived at 3:30 in the afternoon.
Moving . . .
box by box. . .
on a bus . . .
in the rain!
Ready for the next adventure!
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