Valerie as “ Mission Mother” |
“Valerie…has been wonderful! Our new cook, Pardo, had to leave for ten days, and she took over, doing an excellent job and all in such a sweet spirit. The elders love her for all her goodness to them.” |
—Pappy’s addendum to Mammy’s journal, Page 114. |
This official certificate turned our Valerie into an RFM (Returned French Missionary) and ended my second period of formal
companionship with a French Missionary of the female persuasion. That’s a world record for male French Missionaries, as far as I know.
In his personal release letter, reproduced on the next page, President Pappy went beyond these formal expressions in his own sweet way. |
I think it was Elder Christensen of the Mission Staff who cornered Valerie one day and asked if she knew of extra beds anywhere in the Home. A particularly large group of new missionaries was arriving, and he’d run short of places to put them for the night. When she replied that there was such a bed in our room, he replied that no, he was sure we had only two. Then he blushed, as the salient characteristics of our cohabitation dawned on him… |
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