First Camp?
Only the visionary Ruben could see a campground full of worshipers.
The field had been unvisited by church members and fallow for years. It had been moderately worked by neighboring landowners so the light soil was broken.
Ruben said he needed an informal land survey so it could be developed. He had survey connections in the survey industry in Texas with his son Edgar and fellow quorum member Bob Riley, a Registered Professional Land Surveyor.
He led them and their spouses, and a couple of others with their spouses, to that vacant field just outside a little village a few miles from Saltillo, Mexico.
They camped about 100 meters downwind from the stables and its odiferous containment. The wind blew and the broken soil moved with it, bringing unknown substances from the stable to flavor the meals. The surging wind left tents only partially standing.
And so the redevelopment of a longstanding vision in Ruben’s mind grew. He was gifted a generator and he began to build.
