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| author | Collin Williams <96917990+bluedragon1221@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-10-27 08:57:49 -0500 |
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| committer | Collin Williams <96917990+bluedragon1221@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-10-27 08:57:49 -0500 |
| commit | 8412b7179fc4488d29235fa0c7ce3c80c3a0850c (patch) | |
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maybe I finally fixed all of the linking issues?
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diff --git a/md/20_Dans_Mission_in_Brazil.md b/md/20_Dans_Mission_in_Brazil.md index 7a89bff..675c879 100644 --- a/md/20_Dans_Mission_in_Brazil.md +++ b/md/20_Dans_Mission_in_Brazil.md @@ -3,21 +3,21 @@ title: Dan's Mission in Brazil lesson: The power of giving compliments to lift others up --- -It's been over 47 years since I left home to go preach the gospel in +_It's been over 47 years since I left home to go preach the gospel in Brazil. When it's been that long since a person has done something, it has "old geezer" written all over it. I guess instead of avoiding the -truth I'll embrace my geezerhood and try to make the best of it.\ -\ +truth I'll embrace my geezerhood and try to make the best of it._ + Back in those days when a young man started to plan for college and a mission, you had to be 19 to even apply to go on a mission for the church. I was only 17 when I graduated from Ridgefield High school, so the only option was college. I attended one year at Clark Community College in Vancouver and then a second year of university at BYU, majoring in Electrical Engineering. During the summer of 1975, I decided -to take a 30 day desert survival course and then go on my mission. I had +to take a [30 day desert survival course](13_Survival_Journal_Introduction.html) and then go on my mission. I had already received my mission call to Brazil before leaving for the -deserts of Southern Utah.\ -\ +deserts of Southern Utah. + I believe it was late October when I entered the language training mission (LTM). I stayed there for the next 4 months, learning the missionary lessons and the Brazilian language. Normally, the time in the @@ -25,18 +25,13 @@ LTM was only 2 months, but Brazil was very slow at approving our visas, so we got an extra two months to learn the language as we waited for Brazil to finish the paperwork. -{width="5.697916666666667in" -height="3.7937412510936133in" alt=""} +{width="5.5in"} This is Allen Hall, where we lived. It was located on the lower campus at BYU. The much bigger Missionary Training Center near the Provo temple didn't exist yet. -{width="5.75in" +{width="5.75in" height="3.828639545056868in" alt=""} This is my district of fellow Elders. We studied together for many hours @@ -76,8 +71,8 @@ One memory I have of this time was the bitter-sweet experience of spending Christmas at the LTM. I missed my family and President Lee, who signed my mission call, passed away the day after Christmas. We sang a lot of Christmas carols together and felt a wonderful spirit of serving -together in the LTM.\ -\ +together in the LTM. + When my visa was finally approved, I flew from Salt Lake City to Sao Paolo, Brazil. I then flew to Porto Alegre and finally took a bus to my first assignment in a city called Criciuma. I left Salt Lake City @@ -181,8 +176,8 @@ family had planned for me at the Portland airport and I couldn't even get word to them about the delay. I arrived in Portland the next day with 1 dime in my pocket and was picked up by just my mother. It wasn't the big reception I could have had, but I was certainly glad to be back -home again.\ -\ +home again. + One of the last memories of my mission was of a sacrament meeting where I was asked to speak in the Porto Alegre ward. After finishing my talk, I sat down next to the stake president on the stand. He leaned over to |