Every few months, like every three or four, we have a meeting called the Coordinating Council. It is a killer meeting, meaning it kills your body to sit there for 8 to 10 hours. No kidding, the meeting is always that long. The Area Seventy is in charge. The mission president must also be there. All the stake presidents in the mission are supposed to attend and the temple president usually comes for awhile. I had this picture taken thinking that it might be the last one of us together in this mission. All 14 stake presidents and the Los Tuxtlas District president were there. I would name them all but you might be bored with that. Okay here they are, if you insist. Back row: Pres. Hernandez, Tuxtepec Stake; Romay, Acayucan; Hurtado, Teziutlán; Temple President Bickmore; Solana, Veracruz Mocambo; Velasquez, Xalapa; su servidor; Hernandez, Los Tuxtlas; Gallegos, Tierra Blanca. Front row: Pres. Flores, Coatzacoalcos Puerto; Rojas, Minatitlán México; Hernandez, Coatza México; Mata, Mina Tecnológico; Area Seventy Raymundo Morales; Canaan, Orizaba; Ramos, VC Villa Rica; Meza, VC México (son-in-law of Pres. Ramos to his right); Bravo, VC Reforma.

I like Mexicans. They make me feel tall.