The icon of the Misión México Veracruz is the lighthouse, faro. It sits just off the shoreline of the City of Veracruz about 1/2 a mile into the Gulf of Mexico on the Island of Sacrifice. The shoreline is built up with a seawall and levee called the malecon. This foto is taken from the malecon at about 6:30 one morning and looks into the east. The faro is symbolic in the mission tradition because we sometimes refer to ourselves and what we do as "The Lighthouse of the Lord." Our mission hymn is Brillan Rayos de Clemencia, "Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy," which is sung powerfully and oftimes emotionally at all zone conferences, at all the new missionary training sessions, and of course, at the final gathering of missonaries as they leave to return to their loved ones at the end of their missionary service. El Faro.