Thursday, May 1, 1969

Yesterday nine new missionaries arrived in Rio, making seven more elders and two more sisters. It was certainly an exciting and busy day for the mission staff and for President and Sister Johnson. By evening the new ones were scattering to their several cities of labor to begin their work. This group is the first to enter the mission under the two-month LTM program. They will remain in Brazil only a year and ten months instead of two whole years. President Johnson said this group was processed into the mission easier and faster than any previous group.