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Now it definitely has struggles and it definitely the way that it interacts with the rest of the population is different, obviously. In Mauritius, as we were very small, and well as a matter of fact, my experience emerges as very contrasting. When I was a new member of the church, Mauritius was just open to the gospel, so there were very, very few Members. Maybe fifteen or twenty members that met in a garage and it was like pioneers and there was a special spirit about that. We were very much involved with the young missionaries that came from America and kind of idolized them in a certain way and thought that they were amazing and wanted to be like them.
Obviously, a lot of young people wanted to go to America, you know. So, it was definitely something that was appealing to some of the people that are members of the church. And then, most of it we were doing missionary work, so we were talking to our friends, we were talking to people around us. And people were relatively accepting. I mean they definitely didn’t all become members of the church, but they were very kind to us, at least to me and the people that I was teaching with. So, it was very pioneering. It was a lot of pioneer work, I’d say.