Fourty Days in the Wilderness

When I got to Quertero, I discovered that I didn't have any companion. Nobody there knew beforehand that I was coming and nobody was prepared for me. There were two missionaries in Quertero, but they weren't interested in working with me. I didn't have anywhere to sleep or to live. The missionaries lived in a small house that served as the chapel on Sundays. I took up residence in one of the small bedrooms and tried to sort things out. I didn't know where the new mission home was or who the new mission president was or how to get hold of him to tell him that I was now in his mission. I worked with the branch president when he was available or with any other young man or adult who could or would work with me. Otherwise I just went by myself around the town. Like I said the other two missionaries didn't have much to do with me. I wondered if I was destined to waste the rest of my mission trying to find a permanent companion who would work with me.

Finally fourty days after I showed up in Quertero, the new mission assistants showed up in Quertero and discovered me. They didn't know that I was in the new mission. Sensing my frustration with not having a companion or an area or place to sleep or bed to sleep in. They loaded me up in their small car and off to Guadalajara we went. (I didn't have a bed to sleep in while I was at Quetero and I didn't have a bed lots of other times during my stay in the Guadalajara mission.)

I liked Quertero, especially all the polished rocks they had for sale in the town. But I was glad I was going somewhere where I would get a real area to work in.