Translation

Actually, it is not for 1000 days. It is just that 3 years times 365 days plus June 27 through June 30, 2008 equals 1098 days, and that is way too cumbersome to convert into a blog headline. Futhermore, our release date will not be determined until May or June of 2011. Therefore, 1000 Days sounded just about right, more or less. Having noted all that, we are humbled and thrilled (Pres. Uchtdorf would refer to the feeling as "joyfully overwhelmed") about having this marvelous opportunity to serve in La Mision Mexico Veracruz.

Con amor,
Pdte. y Hna. Pete and JoElla Hansen

Sunday, April 26, 2009



One of the areas most remote in the mission is San Juan Xiutetelco in the Teziutlán Stake. It is a pueblo higher up above heat and humidity. It is on the edge of the dry Pueblan plain, but there is still a lot of citrus, bananas, and much foliage and flowers. Many of the people look different, and dress differently than in the coastal cities and pueblos, more kind of . . . hard to describe. . . Indian-y, I guess. The missionaries up there freeze at night in the wintertime. There is a ward which gets lots of help from the elders. There are also three pyramids in town which date back to 1200-1500 A.D., we are told. We are standing on one of them taking pictures of the other two. The predominant religion has build altars and prayer houses on the top of two of the pyramids. At the base of one is a tire shop. There is an agency which is supposed to safeguard the antiquities, but . . .

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