More tender mercies

I really feel a strong connection to my previous mission here in Mexico City 43 years ago.  First, my online training to improve my Spanish was taught by the granddaughter of a man I baptized in my first area.  Neither of us were able to put the connection together until our first Skype.  The medical advisor I am replacing, Dr. Ruiz, was baptized the year I arrived in the mission.  It turns out that in my second area, in Mexico City, I taught a family that was baptized and it turns out it was the sister of Dr. Ruiz's wife and her children.  I really felt a strong connection to this family.  The oldest son had some psychological problems and ended up dying of the injuries he sustained in an accident.  I did have the opportunity to give him a blessing in the hospital before he died.  Dr. Ruiz was also able to update me on a young family I got close to in my 4th area.  He was the nephew of President Echeveria - the president of Mexico at the time I was serving.  He was in the process of bringing the Playboy club to Mexico City when he met the missionaries and was baptized.  He changed his occupation and instead brought a motor cycle dealership to Mexico City.  I met him just after he was ordained an Elder.  He had a daughter who had a congenital heart condition and I was asked by him to help him give her a blessing before she was to receive extensive cardiac surgery.  He told us that when he took his daughter for pre-op evaluation and after 4 doctors listened to her heart they decided that the murmurs they had heard were all gone and they sent the 2 year old home without any surgery and they could offer him no explanation as to why the heart seemed to be normal.    The father attended the English speaking ward in Mexico City for some time and has since moved to the United States.  There is no doubt in my mind that the Lord really loves the Mexican people and he is pouring out his blessings.  Elder Stevens