Yesterday was celebrated as Memorial Day in the United States, but here in Brazil the day and its significance passed quietly by without notice.
President and Sister Johnson left Thursday for a four-day, three-city trip to visit the members and missionaries in the North. A zone conference was scheduled for today with the elders, a district conference tomorrow with the members. These two meetings are in Recife. They are also visiting João Pessoa and Fortaleza.
Transfers, precipitated by Elder Wade's illness and by arriving new missionaries and departing old elders, are generally completed by now. Three new elders and a new sister arrived from the States Wednesday. Certainly it is always exciting to have new ones in the mission. Elders Boyd Clements and Joseph Richard Smoot, the zone leaders here in Rio, are among the elders leaving. Remaining in the mission are 20 missionaries who have been in Brazil since before last December.
After attending a baptism this afternoon, President Carter asked us to visit one of the sisters in the branch to give her a blessing. Her back is giving her trouble. The irmã, Maria Amelia de Oliveira, works as a maid for an American man who speaks little Portuguese. She speaks no English.
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