"I didn't kill my wife." "I don't care."

Note from Ben's mom. This letter came while we were in Israel and so it didn't get posted to the website. It actually was written April 27th.

Hello everyone! It's been a good week this week. Veronica Varela got married on Saturday and she's getting baptized next Saturday. She invited my companion and I go to to the wedding and we did, along with the two missionaries in Chaparral. It was a Catholic wedding, held in the local Catholic church in Chaparral. The Priest was very kind and said hello to us. We got stared at, A LOT! Most people think we can't speak Spanish because we're white so a lot of people were making comments about us right next to us.
"What are the Mormons doing here? Are those Mormons? Aren't those the guys that knock doors? Can they be here?"
Anyways it was a good wedding despite all of the stares. We got a little worried when they were passing the bread and wine around to all of the married couples. Veronica politely said "No thanks" to the wine. She and the priest exchanged a few words afterwards but I couldn't tell what they said. Some people noticed and there were some whispers but it wasn't too big of a deal.
It was definitely a different experience, but I enjoyed it. Everyone was very polite to us. Catholic people are, for the most part, good people, and their religion is, I feel, mostly a good one. I get so frustrated with missionaries who are always going on about "How FALSE" other churches are and how horribly wrong their doctrines are. Granted, many of their doctrines aren't true, and sometimes they are WAY off, but I'm impressed, mostly, with how TRUE they are. It all depends on our perspective, I suppose. The first thing one missionary commented about upon leaving the wedding was how gross the life-sized statue of the crucified Jesus was, and another's first comment was about how beautiful the priest's words were when he personally adressed the couples (Five couples got married in the same service)
We ought not look for the falts in a religion any more than we ought to look for the falts in one another.

We met with the Bishop of our Spanish ward yesterday. For the first time in 6 months I feel like we're really on the same page as him so we're excited to see how the work in the Rio Grande ward will progress,and we got a new WML in 5th ward, Brother Bowden, who just got released from the Bishopric as well! So we're really excited about that. It's not every day that you get a member of the bishopric as your new ward mission leader.

So things are going well. It's hot. And it's going to get hotter. A lot hotter. Even so, everything is well here in sunny El Paso/ST/SP. I appreciate the love and support. Even though I didn't get any letters, I can feel the prayers. But letters would still be nice (hint hint).

Love,

Elder Ben Wilson