Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 8, numbers 81 through 90

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Interviet-1: Isidro & Inez Marrufo Page 16 MM: No. One of my mother's sisters, one aunt, I come with her. BM: t-lith one aunt and why did you decide to come? MM: Because I like to know the United States, they say. They used to say whoever they knm-1 Los Angeles, they know the glory and heaven. I didn't want to die before I see the glory and the heaven in person, and I got that on my mind and that is why I come to the United States, and not only that, they say they paid over here when you go to work, and I planned to help my mother, that is why I stayed. After that after they went back to Mexico, you know I said, now I am here I am not going back, I want to stay, I stay with one friend from Sonora, her name was Refugio, Refugio Salaba, that is the name of the lady I stay with her, and I stay for a long time. BM: In Sonora? MM: The lady era from Sonora. BM: Oh she was fr0m Sonora. MM: She was from Sonora. BM: Where was the first place you went after you left Mexico? MM: Los Angeles. BM: To Los Angeles? MM: From Los Angeles to Utah. BM: And how did you feel when you got to Los Angeles? Was it what you expected it to be? MM: I expected to be something beautiful. And el die 3 de Julio, you know the third of July? It was going to be the fourth the next day, and it was so foggy, that day you couldn't see the city at all. It was about ten o'clock when I a little bit, I said if this heaven if