Elder Frank Clark companioned with me today. He is a good man. Our morning hours we devoted to typing convites for our Sunday evening fireside. We used Tania’s typewriter. During the afternoon we had a first lesson fall through, visited Irmã Odcira (who was not home), and tracted (where unfortunately nobody cared to listen).
Tonight a quite unfortunate incident happened. We dropped by Paulo’s home to fill out the forms for baptism. We hoped to do it and leave before Miguel and Marluce made a visit we had asked them to make, but they arrived just after we did. As we were leaving after filling out everything, the subject of using the Lord’s name in vain came up. Brazilians do it frequently: Se Deus quiser, ó meu Deus, vai com Deus, graças a Deus, pelo amor de Deus, Deus me livre, etc. Such phrases make up the bulk of what leaves their mouths. Because of it, we generally teach our investigators concerning the matter. Somehow we had not taught Marluce. She openly and flatly refused to change, even going so far as to say that such a point could make her leave the Church. I was shocked, not so much by her reaction to the commandment, but by her attitude and by the fact she would carry on in front of an investigator examining the Church.
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