Called to Serve

Leona and Lou Butler
March 4, 1983

Following their retirement from public school education (which I haven't covered yet), and Dad's release as the President of the Pueblo, Colorado Stake, Mom and Dad performed great Church service together. The first time was to serve as Church Service Volunteers at the Institute of Religion at Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas. They served from August 1984 - May 1987.

In August 1989 they began a mission to the Swiss Temple - later transferred to the temple at Frankfurt, Germany - and returned home in February 1991.

The blog posts over the next several months will focus on their mission experiences (with other unrelated posts mixed in), beginning with their call to serve in Switzerland. Through these years of service, they had many wonderful, fulfilling, and downright funny experiences together, strengthening their marriage of 40+ years. I can't guarantee that I'll provide all the details, or get everything in the right order, but I can promise that you'll sense their joy of serving with a beloved spouse.