HOLIDAY VISITS FROM FORMER MISSIONARIES

Dear Family,

With the holiday season, we often have visits from our former missionaries.  We have known them now for about eleven years and it is always such fun to see them on occasion,  We feel almost related.

Here is Beth Webster who came down from Logan.  She was our fine sister missionary who spent the bulk of her mission in Vienna and was there so long, that the members offered to rent her an apartment if she would stay.  She earned a masters in German Literature and taught.  Now however, she decided to go back to school and get a degree in actuarial science which would be a hot item now.  I thought that was plenty cool.  We all say,"Go Beth, go!'

We had a visit from Shalayne Davis who is here from Richmond Virginia.  She was one of our fine sister missionaries in Germany and a great trainer.  She graduated from BYU, received a teaching certificate, taught and decided to go to law school.  She is in her last semester of her third year at law school in Richmond,Virginia.  She is taking her last semester at the BYU law school but has definitely turned into a Virginia Southern Belle.  We all say,"Go Shalayne, go!"

And then on the same day, we had a visit from Mary Cox and her mother.  Mary worked in Germany and Austria and did such a great job.  Since then she graduated and got accepted to Oxford College in England.  She is working on a Phd in post World War I German economics.  This year she has taken a breather from that to become a Lecturer in European history at Oxford.  I thought that was super plenty cool.  It was so fun to visit with her again and to Mary, we all say,"Go Mary, go!"

So great to see friends and family at Christmas time.  May Heaven bless you all,

Dad and Mom