This practical school of this mission
gives me enough opportunity to enrich my experiences. And it is, as with all
other things or with life itself, “Our Life is what we make it.” One who lives
in indifference and fulfills his duties only halfway can never harvest the priceless
blessing of a faithfully fulfilled mission, can never enjoy the true happiness
of serving God nor in the complete sense cleanse his garments of the blood of
this generation. (Adolf Haag, Letter to Louis Abegg, August 14, 1892, in A
missionary’s Story: The Letters and Journals of Adolf Haag Mormon Missionary to
Switzerland and Palestine, 1892, ed. Larry W. Draper and Kent P. Jackson [Provo,
Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2015], 215)