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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