Wednesday, August 27, 2008


Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 5:41 PM
> Dear Parents,
> We are happy to send the good news that your missionary has
> arrived safely at the Brazil MTC. What a great joy and
> privilege it is to greet each missionary as they come
> through the front door of the MTC for the first time.
> They now have companions and are settled into their rooms.
> They are assigned to a district with capable and caring
> instructors for language and lesson study. The branch
> presidents and their wives, who are usually a senior
> missionary couple or mature Brazilian couple, will soon give
> them a second greeting. These couples are rewarded in their
> callings through the love they always develop as they
> embrace and watch over the missionaries.
> The MTC has a full time live-in physician to care for their
> health needs. He is assisted by his able wife.
> We are also happy to report that the Cafeteria food is
> abundant and very good.
> Your missionary will be able to e-mail home on Preparation
> Day after a morning at the Temple. This will be either
> Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on individual assignments.
> Important information is attached for communicating with
> your missionary through letters and other mail while at the
> MTC. Your missionary's district is (35-A) and the mail
> box number is (3). It is important that this information be
> written on all letters and packages that you send to your
> missionary. We ask that you send packages only in the first
> 4 weeks and after that send any packages to his or her
> mission home. We are not able to forward packages that
> arrive at the MTC after your missionary has left for the
> field. A package that you send that arrives after your
> missionary leaves will be opened. Only the most essential
> items are forwarded on and only those items that can fit
> into a 9 inch x11 inch envelope.
> We are also parents of children who have served as
> missionaries. And we have been missionaries who have left
> family. Please know that we are mindful of you and know of
> your love for your missionary.
> Your very important young person is about to make an
> eternal difference in the lives of others. We hope you will
> be encouraged and comforted by this quote by President
> Lorenzo Snow: "There is no mortal man that is so much
> interested in the success of an elder [sister] when he is
> preaching the gospel as the Lord that sent him to preach to
> the people who are the Lord's children."
> Please accept our love,
>
> President and Sister Woodward
> Brazil

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