In Lerdo the missionaries have been teaching a man and his wife. They live at the edge of a sugar cane field. Years ago, the man's grandfather owned the field. There was a large pyramid shaped hill in it. After he sold the land, the cane growers bulldozed the hill. It is now a barren spot of ground which will soon be cultivated. The man was out there poking around one day with a stick. The stick suddenly went into the ground with no resistence. He dug around and found this huge burial urn. He keeps it in his house and plans to put a plastic tree in it. It is an incredible find and worth who knows how much money . . . It is priceless. We have seen one almost exactly like it in a museum. It is definitely Olmec and is at least 3000 years old, maybe 4,000. It sits in their kitchen. They put a piece of masking tape around the top because there is a crack and they want it to hold together.



Elder Brandt is one of the missionaries. The man finds little artifacts all the time and he gave these to Elder Brandt.