A full-time missionary serving in Oaxaca, Mexico, died Nov. 9 after he was struck by a truck.
Killed was: Elder Joel Galindo Flores, 23, of Pachuca, Mexico.
Elder Flores was standing on a sidewalk speaking with a group of people when a 10-wheel dump truck jumped the curb, hitting the missionary, according to a witness.
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Elder Flores was transported to several different hospitals for treatment but died later that evening. A convert, he had served 13 months in the Oaxaca Mexico Mission. Before leaving on his mission, Elder Flores baptized his widowed mother, Maria Antonia Galindo Dominges, and two of his sisters. A fellow missionary remembered Elder Flores being an "amazing person" who cared deeply for the people he was teaching.