Missionaries

Jacob Thomas Dahl, 18, of Coeur d'Alene, was recently called to serve a two-year mission to the Xalapa Mexico Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is the son of James and Lorien Dahl of Coeur d'Alene. He will leave for the Missionary Training Center in Mexico City on April 29 where he will continue to learn the Spanish language and customs.

Elder Dahl graduated from Lake City High School with a 3.8 GPA, with four years of Spanish. He played football, basketball and tennis and was active in band and drama. Jacob is an Eagle Scout and graduated from LDS Seminary. He has been working for North Idaho Eye Institute and Little Caesars.

- Berta Philipp Bockholt, of Coeur d'Alene, was recently called to serve an 18-month mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Inde-pendence Missouri Mission as a Family History Records Preservation Specialist. She will enter the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, on May 18.

Sister Bockholt, working with Family Search, will be trained in digitizing, handling and preserving fragile ancient documents. This will make them more accessible to individuals doing genealogy and connecting family relationships, while protecting these delicate documents from being handled in the research process. The images will then be available to all, on a free searchable database.

Berta has served four prior missions, including a Family History Mission in Salt Lake City and three at LDS Employment Resource Centers in Spokane, Coeur d'Alene and Sandpoint.

- Linda Elyse Estes, of Plummer, recently received her call to serve an 18-month, Family and Church History Head-quarters Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She entered the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, on April 27.

This mission will entail working either in Family History/Genealogy or in the Church History Department or both, depending on where the greatest need is at the time Sister Estes arrives. She will then receive her assignment.

Linda is the mother of eight, grandmother of 33 and great-grandmother of 10. She currently has an 80-year-old aunt, a sister and brother-in-law serving missions in Guatemala and looks forward to her mission.