Leon

After spending three months in Zamora, I was transferred up to Leon, Mexico. Leon was large city with over 400,000 people. We had three pairs of missionaries in the city, four elders and two sisters. I also met up with Elder Smead (my first trainer) again. He as the district leader in the city. I grew to love Leon. They had city buses in Leon and we didn't have to walk everywhere like I did in Zamora. Plus we had lots of members in Leon in comparison to Zamora. My first baptisms in Leon was a family who made cows feet or menudo for a living. Of course being the missionaries who baptized them we got to eat lots of cows feet. They were poor but so sweet and special.

Leon was going through there 400th year aniversary when I was there. This was back in 1975 a year before we celebrated our 200th year aniversary as a nation. Leon is in the middle of cow country and everyone did something with cows. They made a lot of shoes in Leon from cow leather. I got a nice pair of shoes while I was at Leon. I later gave them away to one of my green Mexican companions who didn't bring a shoes for his mission. I quickly learned the layout of the city which was a blessing later on while I was there. I got to know the district president of while I was there. He was a young father with a young family but was very much converted to the church. Today he sits in the second quorom of the seventy as a general authority of the church. He sold drugs to doctors. While I was Leon I got very sick with the Amebas. He let me buy the medicine I need to get well from him with out any markup. He was great.