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part of their arms and legs. This was a new experience to some of the lit-
tle Arab boys. One of them walked alongside Jean and said repeatedly,
“Mozehn”, which, in Arabic, means “not good.” We found it interesting
to shop in a real, old-fashioned Arab town and we managed to bargain
for a small rug about 30 inches wide and four feet long which we have
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himself as Cal Westbrook. He said that he was responsible for clearing
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in trouble because the Saudis were such militant Muslims. Neverthe-
less, I said, “Yes I am a Mormon.” Mr. Westbrook replied, “So am I.”
We agreed to meet at our house at 10 a.m. the following Friday morn-
ing. He appeared at that time along with Palmer Scott, a retired Los
Angeles policeman who worked for the Aramco security group. Cal and
Palmer had met a couple of times to begin a gospel study meeting. From
that time onward, they met with us every Friday morning in our living
room. Very soon thereafter we were joined by Craig W. Wayman, who
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ing his girlfriend, a nurse named Margaret Burr. She was not a member
of the Church, but attended faithfully. We used Dr. James E. Talmage’s
book Jesus the Christ, as our text and we studied one chapter each Fri-
day. It was most enlightening.
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Leave of two weeks was authorized in the middle of each two-year tour.
The company would transport you to Beirut, Lebanon and back. You
were on your own for any vacation expenses. We took Richard and Janet
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Cyprus was a British colony. The citizens were almost all either Greek
or Turkish in origin. The island was very dry, but the weather was su-
perb. We visited ruined or damaged castles and churches. In Larnaca we
had lunch in a little restaurant facing a gorgeous half-moon bay in the
Mediterranean. In Famagusta Richard enjoyed an old fort overlooking
the port where he straddled an old cannon that was still facing out to sea.
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