Santiago Izquintla

Not long after my trip to the mission home, I was transfered to Tepic, Mexico. We lived in Tepic but I was called to be the branch president in a little town about two hours away from Tepic, Santigo Izquintla. Both Tepic and Santiago Izquintla and seen better times in the church. There was only one active family in the church in Santiago Izquintla, the Carvajals. Hermana Carvajal was a widow sister with six or seven children. She owned the little newspaper that was published in town and also a small printing business. I really liked her and her family. All of her children were active members except for her oldest daughter who had left of college before the missionaries had showed up to teach them the gospel.

I soon became her favorite missionary. I only served two weeks in Tepic before becoming the Zone Leader over the Guadalajara Zone. As Zone leader I came back often to see the Carvajal family.

After serving three months as Zone Leader I became a district leader in Guadalajara. One day while walking back to our apartment I was stopped by a young mother who asked us if we were Mormon Missionaries. She turned out to be the oldest daughter of Hermana Carvajal. I was the perfect missionary to teach her and her family and they were my last baptisms on my mission.