Finally on my Mission

I went on a mission before a MTC was built so I started my mission in Salt Lake at a converted school right across the street from the Salt Lake Temple (where the conference center is now located.) We slept in a huge gym with over a hunderd bunk beds in it. The first night there, the missionaries in the bunk bed next to ours got into a big fight. It was so bad that the mission president had to come up and settle them both down. I didn't know who the two elders were and I said to myself I hope I never do or have to be either of their companions. That was the wrong thing to think. I soon became Elder Wheeler's new companion and he was my companion from late July 1974 to early November 1974. I spent the last nine months of my mission with Elder Butler.

But we became good friends. I servered as a bishop the same time Elder Wheeler did while Elder Butler was serving as a stake president. I will say more about them later.