April Activities

A second visit to La Antiqua established in 1574
Home of Cortez





Florals are abundant everywhere in Veracruz

Mango Tree

Trip to the Fish Market

Preparing for Dinner

You can buy a whole fish cheap






The local aquarium is home to 3000 species
of Marine life native to the Gulf of Mexico




These beautiful creatures can kill you



Family Home Evening with the Torres Family
Both Hermana & Hermano Torres
are temple workers

JOSE ANGEL JUAREZ MARTINEZ

 Meet Jose Angel Juarez Martinez

This young boy I first meet at the Club Britania. One day in my very best Spanish, I asked him if he went to school.  His answer was NO.  When I asked why, he said he had not been to school since he was 11 yrs. old.  He has to work to help feed his family.  Rob and I discussed the situation and decided we would try to get Jose back into school. We visited the town where he lived and found a school he could attend on Sundays. (This picture we took for Jose Angel's entrance into school, he has on Rob's shirt)



Jose's Family:

Marie-Age 32 Jose-Age 16 Luis-Age 11

Gabriela-Age 5, Yoselin-Age 3

 By attending school and passing six exams, he will be able to catch up the past years. He started attending the above school and took the first three exams successfully, then his family was forced to move and by fate moved into our ward boundaries. Without us saying anything about the church, but only from the family being curious about the temple, Jose, first and then his family became interested in the church. They came to church with us a couple of times and then took the missionary lessons.

At the request of Jose, Presidente Hilton baptised Maria, Jose and Luis

The Family is very happy together




Yoselin in front of their casa





They don't have much

This is the street going to casa



Just 2 weeks after their baptism, the ward formed two new branches (ramas)



the sacrament table





now Jose and his family meet
 in this small casa.





The complete membership



Jose is always tired. He has to get on a bus at 4:30am to be to work at 6:00am. He works six days a week. Sunday is his only day off and when he can get back into another school in his new town he will again go to school on Sunday.  I might note that when we meet Jose he was a gardener, since then he has had two promotions and now works in the weight room, which is airconditioned. We told him he needed to smile, hold his head high, give a firm handshake and look people straight in the eye. He took the advise.....He is an exceptional young man. He reads very well and is now reading from both the Bible and the Book of Mormon, he also loves reading the Liahonias.