The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

WAITSBURG/DAYTON – Guatemala City missionary David Beam cites "enjoying the wide open spaces and the beauty of the land" as a favorite experience in his recent visit to the Touchet Valley. The valley's rolling hills and waving wheat fields are a stark contrast to the "4 million people and horrible traffic" he and his wife left behind, he said.

In a fun case of role reversal, David and his wife, Damaris, recently spent several days enjoying local landscape, people, events and points of interest. They were hosted by a team of local ladies that visited the Beam's mission last April, when the...