Grandpas Mission to Norway

Grandpa was in Norway when the German army was right at the doorstep of Norway. He was in the upper part of Norway, away from the mission home, he and his companion were. The mission President called or wrote to them, I don't know which they did in those days, and told them that all of the missionaries were to leave Norway. He, the mission President, was leaving with the last group of missionaries on a ship and Budd and his mission companion would be the only missionaries left in Norway. They were told there would be another boat for them, but it wouldn't be there very long. They only had a couple days to get to the ship and neither one of them had any money to get out of there. Budd had said that it was a miracle. He had had an appendicitis attack and he had written home for money so he could have it taken car e of over there. But, no money came from home so the mission helped him pay for it. So, the day they were to leave on the train to get to the ship, he received a letter from his sister Ella. She had sent $35 and told him that she hoped the money would help with his operation and she was sorry that no one in the family had any money to send to help with the operation. Budd had told Grandma that the $35 was exactly what they needed for both of them to get down to the boat and they had been afraid that they had missed the boat.

He had been over there nearly two years. They used to send them for 2.5 years, because they gave them six months to learn the language. They had to learn the language in their mission because they were only in the mission home for two weeks. Everyone only went to the mission home for two weeks and then they learned the language where they were sent. So, they brought him back and sent him to Ohio to finish his mission. He didn't get to go home at all. You never did hear him talk about Ohio, it was always Norway. I didn't even know he served in Ohio, till he had been married a long time and he told me the whole story. He said they were glad to get out of Norway because of the stories they and been hearing about the German soldiers moving through Europe.