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==Relationship with Junipero Serra and Felipe de Neve== [[File:Felipe de Neve (Gobernador de las Californias).png|thumb|upright|[[Felipe de Neve]], 4th [[Governor of the Californias]].]] In 1774, Fermin Lasuén requested to return to the [[College of San Fernando]] in [[Mexico City]]. The request was denied, and Lasuén was eventually appointed by Padre Serra as rector of [[Mission San Diego]], which was considered at the time to be the poorest and most unstable of the existing missions. Lasuén was fearful of Indian uprisings, and often wrote Serra and [[Felipe de Neve]], Governor of California (1777 to 1782) about his difficulties, seeking advice about the placement of both friaries and the number of troops to guard the mission properties.<ref>Geiger, Maynard, The Life and Times of Junipero Serra, Vol. II, P 304. Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1959</ref> His Christian zeal and sense of "civilizing" purpose led him to great lengths in order to acculturate Native Americans, even using their language in his pursuit, despite the Spanish king's prohibition in that respect. News of the mistreatment of Native Americans in the [[Mission San Francisco de Asís|Mission of San Francisco]] reached the governor of [[The Californias|California]] [[Diego de Borica]], also a Basque, who warned of a lawsuit against Lasuén should he not give up on his practices.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Douglass|first1=William A.|last2=Douglass|first2=Bilbao, J.|date=2005|title=Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8KzfK1QwxDIC|location=Reno, NV|publisher=University of Nevada Press|isbn=0-87417-625-5|access-date=16 February 2014|page=192}}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Although it is clear that, at points during their ministry and friendship, they did not always agree about how to discipline the Indians and protect mission property, Lasuén wrote that Serra was a "most exemplary superior and a holy man."<ref>Lasuén to OFM Guardian, Monterey, Aug 3, 1775, from Geiger, Maynard, The Life and Times of Junipero Serra, Vol II, p. 323. Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1959. </ref>
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