Valerga served a proselytizing mission in Italy, where he made and edited a video that detailed daily mission life. His interest in missions and in mission documentation convinced him to do his final folklore project on missionary home videos. Valerga taught at the LDS Church's Missionary Training Center-a place in which returned missionaries prepare new missionaries for their missions-and attended Brigham Young University.
From the description of Missionary home videos : folklore at its finest, 2001. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367544550