In the fall of 1775 all seemed to be bright with hope.

New buildings had been erected, a well dug, and more land made ready for sowing.

The Indians were showing greater willingness to submit themselves to the priests, when a conflict occurred that revealed to the padres what they might have to contend with in their future efforts towards the Christianizing of the natives.
The day before the feast of St.Francis (October 4, 1775), Padres Jayme and Fuster were made happy by being required to baptize sixty new converts.

Yet a few days later they were saddened by the fact that two of these newly baptized fled from the Mission and escaped to the mountains, there to stir up enmity and revolt.

For nearly a month they moved about, fanning the fires of hatred against the "long gowns," until on the night of November 4 (1775) nearly eight hundred naked savages, after dusk, stealthily advanced and surrounded the Mission, where the inmates slept unguarded, so certain were they of their security.