Elder Roberts

Six weeks after coming to Mexico I received a new senior companion, Elder Geoffry Roberts. He was an interesting missionary. He was the great great grandson of Brigham H. Roberts. He was very different than Elder Smead. We made a great team together. He was a lot more liberal with the rules than Elder Smead. I sometimes thought that the reason that Elder Roberts was sent to this area was so that President Whetten could see him every week at church to check up on him.

One positive point Elder Roberts had was that he was an extremely hard worker. He played hard and worked hard. I was his companion for three months and during these three months we were the top baptizing missionary pair of Elders in the whole mission, averaging over twenty to twenty five baptisms each month.

Elder Roberts repeatedly told me that he wished he could be assigned to work outside of Mexico City down in the "Bajio' (The lowlands) out in the country. But after being my companion, he was transfered out to the east of Mexico City where he was made a zone leader of the east side of the City. He finished his mission serving as a zone leader in Mexico City but he never got to go outside of the city to work.