Jacob and Abi Beutler Family

On New Year's Day our family visited our friends Kirsten and Peter and their family. While there, they offered to babysit on the spot. So we left our kids in capable hands and zoomed off to see the Vor Frue Kirke, or the Church of Our Lady of Copenhagen Cathedral, that houses a series of famous sculptures: Christ, the Twelve Apostles, and a Guardian Angel baptismal font. The sculptures were spectactular and in the appropriately reverent atmosphere of a church.

This statue of Peter holding a set of keys holds a special place in my heart because of a church talk I heard in 2008 General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In this talk, Elder Boyd K. Packer tells a story of President Spencer W. Kimball visiting the Vor Frue Kirke in 1976 and telling a janitor there that there are living apostles today, just like there were apostles in Christ's time.

All of the statues are wonderful works of art. The Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen produced hundreds of beautiful sculptures during his lifetime, which he left to the people of Denmark at his death. Among his works is the Lion of Lucerne, which we were able to see on our Switzerland trip.