[5] As New Spain was located in modern-day Mexico, they explored the zone of the Western State, also called Sonora or Sinaloa, first working with the Ópata ethnic group for the rectorship of San Francisco of Borja, as this village was previously converted by the Franciscans.
Thus the visiting Pedro Pantoja made Molarja in charge of the missions on the western side of the river, which were Rebeico, Soyopa and Suaqui.
[8] In 1649, there was an uprising in the indigenous village of the Pimas Altos, and Father Molarja had to ask for help from Captain Simón Lazo de la Vega.
This same year, Molarja rejoined the Jesuits from his native Italy, of which he had strayed away a bit, and in a few months he became Father Francisco Paris' successor at the Ures mission.
That year, Father Molarja began having multiple health problems, and remained in bed for several weeks in Tecoripa.