For Christ sakes , blaming the media ? ?? Media was harder on Clinton than the other candidates . primarynewscoverage 2016 trumpclintonsandersThere are stats to prove this in the Harvard study linked above . <| sep |> Some challenges I faced 1 . A companion who was going home and thought breaking as many rules as possible , i . e . going to a movie on PDay , BMX track on a Sunday were good ideas , and then decided and got approved for an extension to his mission . 2 . A companion who had been out on his mission 8 months . I was his 8 th companion . The problem with the guy was that you absolutely never knew what was going to come out of his mouth . I did my best to help him , it didn ' t help . I swore at him one night yelling in his face that if he wanted to be more than the POS he thought he was that he needed a real come to Jesus moment . Earlier that night he had called one of our Samoan Female she could of bench pressed both of us a fat ugly cow . 2 . A companion who when I came to the companionship told me , Elder there are two things we don ' t talk about in this companionship , girls and home I was two months from finishing . I told him , well I guess we don ' t have much to talk about . We did not talk at all unless it was absolutely necessary . Also one of my most productive areas . 3 . Coming into an area which had been closed for several months because the previous Elders had been caught sleeping with some of the young women in the ward . It was a difficult area because it was upper middle upper class neighborhood and they had the bad experience from the elders before , none of the members really wanted us there . We did a lot of service in that area because there really was nothing else we could do . 4 . I got hit by a car , it clipped my back tire on my bicycle and flipped me off . My companion kept riding . We went to three more appointments and I had a broken wrist . By the time I finally got to go to the hospital , my wrist had got to the point I couldn ' t move my hand and it had to be rebroke so they could fix it . 5 . I really enjoyed the mission I served . It was a great experience and really helped me get over myself and to grow up a lot . 6 . I had had a lot of life experiences before going on a mission . I had done things I am not proud of and which I had to repent of prior to leaving . I feel though that those experiences helped me be better able to empathize with the struggles and trials an investigator would deal with . Not that I am suggesting that anyone should follow in my footsteps I am simply saying that it helped me to better be able to communicate with people and build that relationship of trust . I had companions though which simply couldn ' t understand and would judge our investigators because they just had been raised in this little Utah bubble and didn ' t realize that there is a much much wider world out there . 7 . Every member a mission president .