Clean up Mom’s place at Mesa, do the bedding, etc., then head for California. We had a good ride, the highways were crowded with lots of people returning from holidays, but a beautiful day and a good-functioning car and lovely companions made the trip easy. We arrived home at 5:45 pm. After re-settlement and lots of mail to go through, I called President Borquist and told him we were ready. He said he’d call the Missionary Committee tomorrow. Also called Melvin and talked to him for an extended time. He’s supportive and approving. He talked also a lot about some of his problems in his church calling in the bishopric. The community of lamanites there at the power plant give him a real tough time—the Navajo syndrome not to have anyone get ahead of the group, just be one of the crowd. They see him as reaching up and wanting to be better than they. Lamanite social pressures are awesome. Then in the ward, some won’t accept calls extended, and even it appears that some Anglos resent this young lamanite rising above them. It’s a very sad state of affairs. When a person or a group has the “lobster problem”, which is they won’t let others rise above them, as they perceive it. I talked to Melvin at length (I've done it before) to let it roll off, just stand firm, do what’s right and the other will have to be the best it can be. But my heart goes out to him for I know it’s very, very hard.
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