"We serve in Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo State in the Church Office Building with the
Perpetual Education Fund and in the Self-Reliance Center. Our mornings are spent
facilitating classes for people who are looking for jobs, helping them however
we can, practicing interview skills or personal power statements, etc., and
encouraging them. These are awfully good people and we are amazed by their
commitment to the church and to their families. For part of our day we work with
people who have received loans through the Perpetual Education Fund.
One
of the most fun things we do is teach Basic and Conversation English classes. We
teach Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 5:00 until "whenever"
because we don't know how to tell them it's time to go. We love our students and
have a few who are not members of the church. We gave two of them Books of
Mormon in English and in Portuguese and they said they would read them. One of
them, Patricia, said that she doesn't understand it but she has never felt the
way she feels when she is with us in our classes. Of course, we know that what
she's feeling is the Spirit and we're hoping to send the missionaries to her
soon. Though our mission is a PEF Self Reliance Mission, we understand that the
purpose of all missionaries is to invite others to come unto Christ and we love
it when we get that opportunity. We have distributed lots and lots of pass-along
cards and hope we're planting lots of seeds.
On Sundays, we serve at the
Missionary Training Center. Elder Overson is a counselor in a branch presidency
and I work with him and teach Relief Society. There's probably no other place in
the world, other than the temples, where the Spirit is stronger than in our
MTC's. We get to give lots of talks and lots of lessons and are amazingly
blessed to spend every Sunday there not only with the missionaries but with the
other amazing Brazilian brothers and sisters who serve with us
there."
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