A visitor to the fair city of Maceió soon notes the letter S all over the public praças, tiled into the fountains, marked on the benches, decorated onto playground equipment, painted on signs. The story goes that a certain Mayor S— was responsible for the creation of most of the praças and thought it would be fully appropriate to leave a remembrance of himself. Naturally, he was asked about it. The reply came: the S stood for sorriso, the Portuguese word for smiling, meaning that Maceió was the smiling city.
This afternoon it rained so hard and so thoroughly that it was rather difficult to do anything. After some bit of time we hopped up to Aldo’s place to see Virginia and the kids. We spent the rest of the afternoon there talking with them.
Tonight we visited a very friendly and intelligent man by the name of Juarez M. Leite. We went prepared to teach either a first lesson or a Blue Book because we thought the wife might have the lineage. Upon arrival in the home, where we were warmly welcomed, we both felt inspired that she was of the lineage. We taught an interest lesson, explaining about the Church and some of its doctrines. A daughter in the family had several girl friends attending. They know a little about the Church now, hopefully have a good impression of it, and will be useful as friends against the antagonism in the city.
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