Henry's Mission Assignment

The big news in Provo is that Henry has received his mission call.   As most of you know, he is in Berlin right now, with the BYU Study Abroad Program (another tradition in the Davis Family).  The letter came to his home and Sarah "skyped" him, carefully opened the letter without looking (how's that for self-control!) and put the letter up against the computer screen for Henry to read.  Erik was down at Moab with a group of scouts and listened on his cell phone as Henry read outloud "Frankfurt, Germany."  He is very happy about that.  He has been studying German very hard at school and went on a short program to Meissen Germany with the high school program.  Maybe someone in Erik's family can add more details.

  This makes Henry our fourth grandson to serve as a missionary for the Church:  Chantry, Nate, Chase, and Henry. Fiona also served a six-month mission at the Family History Center in Cleveland.  We are proud of all four of them for taking time out of their lives to serve others.  We know it will be a great strength to them in whatever they choose to do. 

With this assignment, the Davises will have pretty much covered Germany with missionaries.  Bill served in the Hamburg Mission (which included Northern Germany and West Berlin at that time), Donnette served in the Munich Mission (which covered most of Southern Germany and Western Austria), we served in the Dresden Mission the first time, (covering all of East Germany from the North to the border of  the Czech Republic including East Berlin).  Our second mission started in Munich, covering all of Austria including Vienna and Southern Germany from the French border on the west, the Swiss border on the south and the Hungarian border on the east.  Then we were transferred back to the Berlin mission--covering pretty much the same area we had on our first mission.  Now Henry is covering the areas the rest of us have missed:  Central West Germany.  The new borders of the Frankfurt Mission take in some of the cities of the former East Germany mission including Weimar.

We just returned from visitying Betty and Art in Challis.  It was fun to be with them.  We even got in a couple of  rounds of golf.  Art continues to get weaker as the emphezema takes its toll.  He is pretty much tied to a walker and his oxygen tank if he goes out of the house.  Betty does most of the work around the place.  Garold was able to put a new wax ring under their leaking toilet and repair the air conditioner on their roof. It was hard for Art to watch him do all that and not be able to do it himself.   We're glad none of you smoke.  The doctor told Art that even though he had quit smoking over 40 years ago, the tar had gathered in his lungs and did its duty.

What has happened to everyone's interest in the Grandpa Garold Herald?  How is Annika getting along on Martha's Vineyard?  What is Mia doing this summer?  Caitlin hasn't posted her good news and told what Jason is doing this summer.  How are the newlyweds in Salt Lake City and in San Diego doing?  What is Chelsea doing this summer?  Gwen hasn't told all her good news.

 Memorial Day.  Includes friends Tom and Katy (Clark Taylor, Zoe Taylor and Katy's mother)






At Paula's place north of Challis showing her new house in progress.  Paula (Mike Bunce's wife)  Grandpa, Betty and Art.

Grandpa said to remind everyone about "Camp Cousins" August 13-18.  We know you won't all be able to come, but it would be great to have as many as can.

We love you all.