In this memoir, Pastor Manuel Martorell and his wife Laura Pastor evoke with nostalgia the admirable time of their overseas missions. With a singular zeal for discovering the unknown, an altruistic spirit of service, and an innate love for their most destitute fellow human beings, they dedicated eight fruitful years to the mission in the Central African Republic.

But Pastor Martorell added to these characteristics of his genuine missionary vocation an exultant admiration for living nature, which made him a brilliant naturalist, a teacher to generations of young people eager to learn in the classrooms of nature.

Thus, their meritorious and sacrificial missionary apostolate was always enriched by this particular hobby. And, if one had to highlight the most outstanding characteristic of Manuel Martorell and Laura Pastor, it would have to point to the excellence of their pastoral ministry, to which they have dedicated more than 40 years of their lives, leading congregations, ministering to souls, and providing missionary training to the faithful. And particularly in his case, Pastor Manuel Martorell distinguished himself as a spiritual leader, mentor, and youth leader, also excelling in preaching as an eloquent, conspicuous, and prolific evangelist.