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[Music] hi everyone nemo here i want to tell you a story but this doesn't quite feel like the place one moment this is the place the year is 1972 and in a haunted house much like this boyd k packer was travelling from west germany to east germany when he met a young missionary as the train was pulling out one young elder said do you have any german money i shook my head no he said you better have some and running alongside pulled from his pocket a twenty mark note he handed that to me oh the packet makes a point to mention as they moved from west to east germany the train crew was changed and as a man of his generation might he pointed out that they were communists he describes the incident as follows about two o'clock in the morning a conductor a military-type soldier came and asked for our tickets and then noting that we were not german he asked for our passports i always hate to give up my passport i do not like to give up my passport especially in unfriendly places but he took them i almost never dislike anybody but i made an exception for him he was a surly burly ugly man the irony of boyce saying that he doesn't like to give up his passport when that is exactly what is expected of young mormon missionaries isn't lost on me but the broader point of this exchange is that sister packers three-year passport wasn't being honored as a five-year passport in east germany the same way it would be in most other parts of the world at the time the conversation took place i now knew what he was saying he was denying her passport he said try yaron and i said five yaren he went away and came back two or three times finally not knowing what to do i had a bit of inspiration and produced that 20 mark note he looked at it he took the note and handed us our passports yes you heard that correctly boyd k packer used money given to him by a young missionary to bribe an east german guard and he even acknowledges that would have been a lot of money for a young missionary at the time i did not learn until afterwards how dangerous it was and what the circumstances were particularly for my wife i care a good deal more about her than i do for me that intelligence officer convinced us that we had been in very serious danger those whose passports they would not accept were arrested and detained all of this comes to this point the elder who handed me the 20 mark note was david a bednar a young elder serving in the then south german mission who sits here on the stand as president of byu-idaho i do not think he knew the consequences of what he was doing that...