Heber Valley Girls Camp Mission APRIL 2026
We are serving another mission! Even during our last mission we talked about our next mission and what that might be. This came quicker than expected and not what we had ever discussed. In January, we were invited to winter camp overnight at Heber Valley Girls Camp with our friends, and our children and grandchildren. Suddenly we were talking with the mission president who encouraged us to apply to serve here. We took a couple days to adjust our thoughts, then jumped in with enthusiasm to complete our paper work to apply. We already had a motor home, so the new fun assignment was to shop for a side by side!
One day as we drove up the canyon to look at the camp, we received our mission call on our phones so we opened it to read up here. We needed to be ready in 3 weeks! We already had been working on fixing up our motor home but we continue to update things that are 30 years old now. We began gathering supplies while tending grandchildren, celebrating Easter, listening to General Conference, and fixing a few meals to enjoy family time before several of us leave for the summer season. Brett and Ashdon went to Hawaii to open a soda shop for a friend on Maui. Be sure to pick up a “Swell Soda” when visiting Kihea! Mac and Amy are on their way to do “summer sales” in Kentucky. We are now full time missionaries for 18 months. We will spend 6 months here at camp, then 6 months at home where we will continue to serve as missionaries for the Orem Mission, then another 6 months back at camp.
We had a week of training, then teachers from the MTC (Missionary Training Center) came to teach us. We even got to go to the MTC to join the young missionaries for a devotional. We imagined ourselves being chosen to help at the Lake or Challenge Courses, maybe a Camp Host or Greeters. Our names were the last ones called for Building Maintenance. What!?! We are in a zone with 4 other couples, a plumber, 2 electricians and a building inspector. We are school teachers who fix most things with hot glue and duct tape! We had to recover from our shock and show up with willing hands to help and a happy heart to serve. We now know how to hard pipe plumbing to trailers, fix window screens and fill propane tanks!
The best part right now is riding the side by side around as we explore the mountain.
We are also enjoying getting acquainted with 240 senior missionaries serving here.
We just learned that this mission has 1/8th of all the senior missionaries serving
throughout the world. We will host nealy 1000 campers a week.
Our cheer here is “Hoorah for Zion!”
Love, Elder and Sister Jerman
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