LaPurisma Mission

We drove a long ways to see La Purisma Mission. It was built many years ago when Indians lived here.

It was a very big mission. Hundreds of Indians lived with the Spanish. They grew their own food. They made all their buildings. They made their own clothes and tools. They made most everything they needed.

They had thousands of animals living on the mission too. Cows, horses, mules, pigs, sheep and lots of them.

We toured the mission and saw people making soap from lye, people making tortillas, people making bread. We saw a guy making really neat candles that used to be made from real bee's wax.

We saw the church where they worshiped. We saw the jail. We saw the animals. We saw the blacksmith. We saw the kitchen were they made all the food. We even saw their bathtub outside. We even saw a lady making the pottery for cups and roof tiles.

My friend and I built this mission and learned about it before we went.