Jailbird For the Gospel's Sake

Switzerland

I listen to my two sons speak of their mission experiences (one to Chile and the other to Uruguay) and I realize that my mission to the New England States was a cake walk. Even our one daughter that served in the Kirtland, Ohio area had it worse than me.The interesting part is, all three taught far more than I could ever hope to teach and baptized more consistently than myself (other than our daughter, of course). Isn't this how you judge a mission--I mean, by how much one teaches and baptizes, and those that baptize more have "easier missions," right? Well, not always. Sometimes missionaries are called on to suffer persecuation for the gospel's sake. When I say that my mission was a cake walk, I'm serious. In two years I had one beer bottle thrown at me by a passing motorist (which didn't even come close to hitting me) and the police called on me and my companion once. But that's it, nothing more. Many are called on to suffer more, far more, especially the first missionaries in this gospel dispensation.

While serving in Switzerland on a mission, how many times was a Brother Miller imprisoned in a five month period?

A)                 Five times

B)                 Once

C)                 Sixteen times

D)                 Twenty-three times

Yesterday’s answer:

(D) 1939

January 22, 1939: Elder George Albert Smith ordains and sets apart Moroni Timbimboo, the first Native American Indian to serve as a bishop in the Church, as the presiding officer of the Washakie Ward, in Box Elder County, Utah.

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel et al., On This Day In The Church (Salt Lake City: Eagle Gate, 2000), 17.