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Tudo Bem in Brazil

BY DON L. SEARLE

Assistant Managing Editor

This common Brazilian greeting wishes everything good to others.

The way Brazilians live and share the gospel with their neighbors is
making the greeting come true.
Question: What is the dominant language of South America?
Answer: Portuguese, spoken in Brazil. The giant of South America has more people than the rest of the
nations on the continent combined.
With more than half a million Latter-day Saints, Brazil also has more Church members than any other
nation on earth except the United States and Mexico (the latter has approximately three-quarters of a
million members). The Church is numerically strong in other South and Central American countries too; in
fact, there are some in which the proportion of Latter-day Saints in the general population exceeds or
approaches that of the United States. But numbers are not the most telling measure of growth in any of
these countries. More important is the effect of the gospel on peoples lives.
In Brazil, Eduardo Naum and Antonio Camargo represent two perspectives on this gospel growththe
comparatively young member and the pioneer.
A handsome mid-level manager in his late twenties, Eduardo is bishop of the Ferreira Ward, So Paulo
Brazil Taboo Stake. It is the second time since he joined the Church in 1991 that he has been called as a
bishop. His extended family, who are not Latter-day Saints, wonder why he is not paid for all the hours he
spends in his Church calling. I work for the Lord, he reflects. What I have learned from my service is that
Jesus livessurely. He is there for each of us. That assurance alone is a priceless blessing worth any
sacrifice of time.
Bishop Naum sees Church growth in terms of the spread of gospel blessings among individuals and
families. Thinking of friends with troubled lives or faltering marriages, he says that the gospel, with its
teachings on love and cooperation and its help in overcoming pride and selfishness, could make an
eternal difference to them.
Antonio Camargo, a longtime executive in Brazil for a U.S.-based company, has seen the Church come
out of obscurity during his five decades as a member. The callings he has held since his baptism (on 8
March 1947 in Campinas) are indicators of the Churchs growth toward maturity in Brazil. In 1966, for
example, he was called as a counselor in the presidency of the So Paulo Stakehis countrys first stake.
He later served as a regional representative twice. Currently he is patriarch of the Taboo stake and a
sealer in the So Paulo Temple.
The kingdom will keep rolling forth, Brother Camargo says. I would like to live to see what the Church is
going to be in Brazil in the next 20 or 30 years.

Building the Future

The major challenge for the Church during those coming years will probably be managing and responding
to rapid growth.
Some meetinghouses here accommodate four or five wards; some wards or branches squeeze into
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buildings that double as institute facilities during the rest of the week. In an average month, missionaries in
Brazil may baptize enough new members to fill a stake. During May of 1995, for example, 4,012 new
converts were baptized. Of those, 1,051 were men. (Approximately 25 percent of all convert baptisms in
the past two years have been males.) Members of the Brazil Area Presidency believe that with proper
support and seasoning in the gospel over time, these men will become strong leaders in their homes and
will be priesthood leaders of the future.
There has to be a very careful blend of the effort to baptize, the effort to build spirituality, and the effort to
retain converts, says Elder Dallas N. Archibald of the Seventy, Area President.
In the effort to baptize, missionaries know that men generally do not respond as well to a direct approach
about spiritual values as women. But fathers do respond to ideas or concepts that promise help with their
families. In teaching them what the gospel has to offer, missionaries think in terms of PAIS-F: the purpose
(Propsito) of the Churchstrengthening families on earth and providing saving ordinances for their
members; true friends (Amigos) through the gospel; loving, supportive social integration (Integrao); the
blessings of physical health (Sade) through the Word of Wisdom; and, last, the family (Famlia) united
forever. And in Portuguese, pais means fathers. Missionaries remember the five words of the PAIS-F
acronym by ticking them off on four fingers and a thumb, so they have developed a shorthand way of
indicating to companions that an investigator family (including an interested father) looked promising
they hold up the four fingers of one hand, followed quickly by the thumbs-up sign.
Elder Archibald compares current follow-up efforts in retaining new converts to the way a building is
constructed in Brazil. Concrete floors are poured one at a time from the bottom up, and each floor in turn
stands for at least 21 days with full support beneath it while the concrete hardens and cures.
How long does it take to cure a member in the Church? he asks. In Brazil, priesthood and auxiliary
leaders are called on to provide all possible support for at least a year, until the new member family enters
the temple to be sealed.
Following direction from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the Brazil Area Presidency has asked
missionaries to spend as much as a third of their time helping to bring back members who are not
currently enjoying all the blessings of the gospel. The intent is to put the less active on the path to the
temple too, with the same full support given to new converts.

The Gospel at Work

The Church is growing well across the vast reach of Brazil. Representative members can be found in four
of the countrys major population centers: So Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Recife, and Curitiba. Rapidly growing
metropolitan So Paulo, where traffic crawls bumper to bumper through the downtown financial district in
the middle of any weekday afternoon, may be home to as many as 20 million paulistasresidents of the
state of So Paulo. From the top of a tall building downtown, office and apartment buildings stretch out
almost as far as the eye can see in every direction. Greater Rio de Janeiro, the resort and recreation area
known worldwide, accommodates an estimated 10 million people in neighborhoods and business districts
meandering around bays and inlets and mountains that rise up suddenly out of the earth. Recife in the
north, with its luxury high-rise hotels on the beach and old colonial buildings under tropical palms in nearby
Olinda, has about 3 million people in its metropolitan area. Curitiba in the south, with pleasant parks,
interesting theaters, and historic squares that show a commitment to heritage and culture, has an
estimated 2 million-plus inhabitants.

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Looking at some of the members in these areas, it is easy to see how the gospel is shaping Brazilian lives.
Otavio and Setsuko Nagata of the Vila Perneta Branch, Curitiba Brazil Tarum Stake (he is branch
president), are second-generation Braziliansamong the many in this country whose ancestral lines go
back to another land within two or three generations. Brazils Portuguese heritage is strong, but there is
also broad representation from throughout Europe and other areas. There is a large ethnic Japanese
population with many ties to the ancestral homeland.
Do the Nagatas consider themselves Brazilian or Japanese?
First, we are Latter-day Saints, Brother Nagata saysthen Brazilians. But he adds that their lives are
blessed by the combined heritages of the gospel, their Japanese ancestry, and their Brazilian culture.
Both Brother and Sister Nagata served missions in Brazil. He has been a bishop or in a bishopric or
branch presidency for 15 of their 20 years of marriage. For Sister Nagata, spiritual experiences with both
her deceased father and grandfather have underscored the importance of temple ordinances to her
family. The strengthening influence of the gospel is an anchor, they say, in their lives and the lives of their
four children: Spencer, Hyrum, Camilla, and Patricia.
Brazilian members appreciate the need for constant reinforcement of gospel standards in their lives. The
religious values that once were so prevalent in their society have been much diluted as people face
constant bombardment by all the temptations of the modern world. Latter-day Saint adults and youth here
draw strength from everything the Church has to offer, including Sunday worship, daily gospel study,
seminary and institute classes, and strong auxiliary programs.
Marcia Linhares of Recife, director of the Churchs Young Women camp program in Brazils northeastern
region, models her cap from last years camp and says the program is a blessing in the lives of the girls. I
love it!
During the camp, theyre not girls from different wards, Sister Linhares emphasizes. They become part
of one group. In addition to the goals they achieve, they form strong friendships with other Latter-day
Saint girls. They enjoy the experience of being out in nature, Sister Linhares saysand they are out of the
cities during carnavl. That week, celebrated as Mardi Gras in the United States, frequently features
immodesty and immorality paraded through the streets, youth leaders say, so they schedule Young Men
and Young Women camps then. Last year there were 12,000 Brazilian young women and 14,000 young
men at camp in rural areas located a safe distance from the worldly influence of carnavl.
This year, harking back to the pioneering era in the Church, the theme of camp programs in Brazil will be
Faith in Every Footstep.
Eighteen-year-old Lilian Fernanda Pereira Santos of the Tijuca Ward, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Andara Stake,
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is one of the young Brazilians trying to walk by faith.

Sometimes when she politely declines invitations to parties where she knows the activities will not meet
gospel standards, her friends at school say sarcastically, Yes, we knowyoure a little saint. Recently
there was a particular party she felt she might safely attend, but her mothers counsel and a Sunday
School lesson led her to reconsider taking a chance on it. The lesson quoted a scripture, Mosiah 2:41, that
was cited in her patriarchal blessing for guidance: Consider the blessed and happy state of those that
keep the commandments of God. If they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven.
Fernanda says having friends she can associate with in her early-morning seminary class makes it easier
to live the gospel and find wholesome activities. She used to be the only Latter-day Saint in her school, but
now there is one morea young woman, recently baptized, whom Fernanda introduced to the gospel by
inviting her to seminary.

Reaching Out to Others

Brazilian Latter-day Saints are good at reaching out to their neighbors to share the gospel, and Brazilians
in general are very open to new ideas, including religious ones. Many seem hungry for truth. It is not
uncommon for neighbors to approach an LDS family and say something like this: Weve seen changes in
your lives since you joined your new church. You have something we want. Tell us more about it.
Ozair Ribeiro, a fireman, is bishop of the Guaraituba Ward, Curitiba Brazil Bacacher Stake. After he and
his wife and a handful of others joined the Church in 1990, the stake presidency organized a small group
of Latter-day Saints in their city. Since then that group has grown to a ward that has been divided once
and is swelling the ranks again. In 1996 it was averaging five to eight baptisms each Sunday. The whole
ward is involved in missionary work, the bishop says. Every two weeks he schedules a day of harvest on
which members bring referrals to the missionaries.
The So Paulo Brazil Stake celebrated its 30th anniversary in 1996 with a missionary open house showing
what the Church has to offer families. Those who attended were able to experience real Relief Society,
Young Women and Young Men, or Primary lessons; in the Primary section, for example, they learned how
to sing I Am a Child of God and created a picture they could take home with them.
Stake mission president Norberto Carlos Lopes, a dynamic man who was on crutches at the time because
of a leg injury, says the event literally kept him hopping from place to place. Some 616 people were
introduced to the Church at the open house, and for several weeks afterward, missionaries averaged one
baptism per day as a result. Brother Lopes says the many members who brought guests or helped with
the event typify the perseverance Brazilian Saints show in sharing the gospel with others. We cant quit
working with people, he says, because we never know the day someones heart will be open.
The help of local members is essential because the missionaries available to serve in Brazil are thinly
spread.
Elder Archibald cites many cities of 50,000 to 200,000 people that have never had missionaries. The
country has enough people for 85 missions, if it had missions in proportion to some other South American
countriesbut currently it has only 23.
So where will Brazil get the additional missionaries it needs?
About 3 percent of the 44,000 young Brazilian members of missionary age currently serve missions, says
President D. Birch Larsen of the Missionary Training Center in So Paulo. The goal is to increase that
number by tenfold. The MTC is moving into a new facility this year. While the old one could handle about
2,000 missionaries per year, the new one will accommodate six times as many. But what the missionaries
are being trained to do is still characterized by a painting the MTC president treasures. It was the work of
Walter Spat, the first stake president in Brazil, who was originally taught and baptized by a young Birch
Larsen and his missionary companion almost 50 years ago. The painting shows a back view of the lower
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legs of two missionaries kneeling in prayer, holes worn in their shoe soles by their daily work.
Approximately 40 percent of the missionaries serving in Brazil are natives of the country. Their
experiences in the mission field will help make them into leaders, the future strength of the Church in their
areas, when they go home.
President Dolimar Fagundes Batista of the Rio de Janeiro Brazil Andara Stake says returned missionaries
prepared to be leaders can be a great help. Leadership often is a problem where the population is very
mobile. Some 4.5 million people live within the boundaries of President Batistas stake, and they range
from very rich to very poor. In Brazils sometimes difficult economy, even middle class members may have
to move frequently as they seek work opportunities. But this often results in an experienced leader moving
into an area where he and his family are truly needed. The Lord can raise up leaders wherever they are
needed, President Batista says, because the strength of members in Brazil is that there are so many
whose hearts and minds are centered on eternal values.

Focusing on Eternity
Demar Staniscia, first counselor in the presidency of the MTC, has served in a number of leadership
callings, including mission president (Brasilia, 198588) and regional representative. He was president of
the So Paulo stake when the So Paulo Temple was built. It was a privilege, a humbling spiritual
experience, for him to help make blocks for the temple with his own hands.
That is the kind of feeling that many Brazilian leaders and members have for the temple.
Ernestina Conceico dos Santos of the Curitiba Second Ward, Curitiba Brazil Stake, is an active 85-yearold who almost never misses one of her stakes regular temple excursions. I pray all the time to Heavenly
Father to give me strength so I can go, she says. There were a few times in her mid-70s, when she was
recovering from a broken leg, that she was unable to make the trip, but as soon as she could move
around on crutches, she was ready to go again. Church members who do not know the temple well are
missing out on some of the most important blessings of being Latter-day Saints, she says. The best thing
we can do is make those covenants with the Lord.
For some members, temple covenants offer strength in the face of trials that few could endure.
Soft-spoken Antonio Edison Berrocal manages government highway projects. A member of the Ah Ward,
Curitiba Brazil Bacacher Stake, he joined the Church alone in 1988. It took a few years before his wife
was prepared to join with their five children. Then, he recalls, the gospel ran in our blood, in our veins. We
were doing everything the gospel asks us to do, day after day, to fulfill their goal of being sealed in the
temple. The family was on their way to the temple, in fact, when they were in a car accident. Only Brother
Berrocal survived; he awoke in the hospital to learn that his wife and children had already been buried.
He has since been sealed to his family in the temple. His neatly trimmed beard covers physical scars from
the accident. Eternal truth has prevented scarring of his spirit. I dont know what would have happened to
meor to any other human beingif that had occurred without the gospel of Jesus Christ. The most
important thing now is for me to keep myself clean and worthy so I can have my family forever. My heart is
in the hope of the gospel.
The So Paulo Temple is so busy that on weekends its sessions run straight through from Friday morning
to late Saturday night. Stakes are assigned a time in the templebeginning, perhaps, Saturday at 2:00
A.M.and distant ones schedule their buses to arrive in time for members to be ready at the appointed
hour.
Happily, ground has now been broken for another temple in Brazil, at Recife, approximately 1,200 miles
northeast of So Paulo. Members in northern Brazil are eagerly looking forward to the day when the
temple will be dedicated on the spot of ground that used to be covered only with palm trees, vines, and
tropical plants.
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Joo Antonio Dias, second counselor in the presidency of the Recife Brazil Boa Viagem Stake, is one of
the members who feel a sense of mission in connection with this temple.
When he retired from the Brazilian army in 1988, he was planning to return to Brasilia, where he once had
been stationed and had served as bishop. But his family was established in Recife at the time, and he was
eventually called as a regional representative. Somehow the return to Brasilia never worked out. I believe
that the Lord has something for me to do here, he says. I really think my stay is related to the temple. I
want to work in it. He has had the privilege of being a temple ordinance worker before, in the United
States when his army assignment took him to Washington, D.C., in the 1980s.
Years ago when he was a branch president, Joo Dias performed the marriage ceremony for Antonio
Jos and Yone Mendona, currently members of the Juiz de Fora Branch, Juiz de Fora District of the
Brazil Rio de Janeiro Mission. Both have been stalwarts in the Church wherever they have lived, serving in
a wide variety of leadership positions. Brother Mendona was mission president in Recife and knows the
blessings that a temple will bring to members there. He recalls people who sold their possessions,
including most of their clothing, to finance a trip to the So Paulo Temple so they could be sealed as
husband and wife or as families.
He and his wife have seen what he calls miracles of growth in the Church, both in terms of expanding
membership and personal spiritual development, as Brazilian members have become more self-reliant.
Seeking the Spirits direction, well versed in Church procedures, these members move ahead confidently
in their callings.
Achilles Miguel de Oliveira and his counselors in the elders quorum presidency of the Agua Branca
Branch, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Madureira Stake, take a direct approach to helping the less active among
the 34 elders and prospective elders in their quorum. They go beyond simply visiting with prayerfully
selected brethren. They teach the gospel in the home and offer activities or quorum assignments to
strengthen the individual. They encourage brethren to read the scriptures and hold family home evenings.
Sometimes the less-active families are invited to family home evening in the homes of President Oliveira
and his counselors so they will see how it can be done. The goal is to point the less-active families toward
the blessings of the temple.
It can be a delicate thing to bring back a member who has become less active, says Bishop Mario Luiz de
Souza da Silva of the Madureira Ward, Madureira stake. Where repentance is involved, a bishop must
rely completely on the Spirit in guiding the process. The medicine must be exact, he explains. If you
give too much, you can kill the patient. If you give too little, the disease goes on. And I think the only doctor
who can tell you how much medicine to give is the Lord.
Seeing the resultseeing someone become spiritually vital againis the reward for sacrifices involved in
serving. But in truth, Bishop da Silva says, his sacrifices seem small in comparison with blessings received.
He pays tribute to his wife and family for their support and says they all have been blessed because of his
calling.
His attitude is indicative of what seems to be happening among Latter-day Saints in Brazil. Members give
what they have to strengthen other individuals, and somehow the whole body of the Church becomes
stronger at the same time.
Spencer Nagata of Curitiba says he sees the gospel affecting his country in a way that President James E.
Faust, now Second Counselor in the First Presidency, once described: the Church has grown to its current
position of strength through the faithfulness of millions of humble and devoted people who have only five
loaves and two small fishes to offer in the service of the Master (Ensign, May 1994, 6). And so it is in
Brazil. Thousands of individual contributions in the service of the Master are nourishing a strong and
growing family of Saints.

The Church in Brazil

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National population: 160,000,000

Church members: 600,000
Stakes: 146
Missions: 23
Districts: 46
Temples: 1 in operation (So Paulo), 1 under construction (Recife)

Growing Up with the Church

Mathilde Felber joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when it was just taking root in her
country, and she grew up with it.
LDS missionaries in Brazil originally labored among German-speaking members who had settled in the
southern part of the country. Mathilde, from a German-speaking Swiss family, first met the missionaries in
1938 when she was only 10, and it was three years before her father finally allowed his wife and
daughters to be baptized, in December of 1941.
During Mathildes years as an investigator and new member of the Church, North American missionaries
were frequently visitors in her familys home. These visitors included young elders James E. Faust and
Wm. Grant Bangerter, along with a number of others she can name as she browses through her photo
albums.
The man Mathilde married, Enos de Castro Deus, attended meetings for five years, studying the doctrine
carefully and even assisting the branch as requested before being baptized in 1952. He would not allow
himself to take on membership with anything less than lifelong commitment in mind, and he wanted to be
sure of the truth.
Together, Enos, who passed away late last year, and Mathilde helped strengthen the Church in Curitiba
for three generations. She has held leadership positions in each of the Churchs auxiliaries, including 17
years in Relief Society presidencies and callings at both the mission and stake levels. He was a branch
president four times, bishop twice, a district president, and a counselor in branch, mission, and stake
presidencies. He was deeply involved in planning construction of the first Church building in Curitiba at a
time when the Church itself was still largely unknown there.
In the beginning, the Church grew very slowly, Mathilde says. It was difficult to baptize people here.
Now, the fruits of the gospel are seen in the lives of so many members who serve as missionaries by
example that its much easier to talk to people about the Church.
Mathilde smiles as she recalls what happened when her daughter-in-law saw a neighbor woman peering
over the fence on a Sunday morning. The neighbor excused herself by saying, I just love to see your
family going to church together!

Doing What They Knew Was Right

Milton Soares Jr. and his wife, Irene, are gracious hosts for visitors to the house he built and she
landscaped in their quiet neighborhood in Recife. They have spent much of their lives in buildingbuilding
a family and building up the Church, which began here with them.
They still have the first LDS pamphlet they received, the story of Joseph Smith, with a hand-drawn
missionary diagram on the inside showing a church built on the foundation of Apostles, and with
instructions suggesting the order of prayer. Another well-used Church book bears a message that the
missionaries who taught Milton inscribed to him as the first person baptized in Recife in this dispensation.
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The date was 15 May 1960. His wife and children of baptismal age followed him into the Church three
weeks later.
Irene Soares was skeptical when her husband first began investigating the gospel, but knowing him to be
a good man, she thought that if he could accept it, it must be right. She received her own strong witness of
the truth when President Joseph Fielding Smith of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles visited Recife in
company with Elder A. Theodore Tuttle of the First Council of the Seventy. I felt in my heart the
knowledge that all we had been learning was true and that he [President Smith] was a prophet, she
recalls.
In the beginning, when both of their families questioned why they would join this unknown church, Milton
and Irene had only their faith to cling to. His familys feelings toward the Church softened over time. The
feelings of her parents and siblings did not, but she could not give up the truths she had found.
Irene laughs when she remembers that after just one week in the Church, I was considered an old-time
member. She felt a responsibility to meet and fellowship everyone. Her first sacrifice for the Church was
to make cloths for the sacrament table. When their small branch moved to a different meetinghouse,
Milton built the baptismal font and Irene found herself rounding up baptismal clothes.
Like many other Brazilians who joined the Church when it was just getting started in their area, they
planted the seeds of gospel growth for their family. And as in many other Brazilian families, their example
has borne fruit in succeeding generations. Their eldest son, Iraj, is just one example. After his baptism as
a teenager, he quickly learned to enjoy working with the missionaries. In 1966 he became the first
Brazilian elder called on a full-time foreign mission (to Chile). Today he serves in the Church as an Area
Authority.
[photos] Photography by Don L. Searle
[photos] Above: Bishop Eduardo Naum, Ferreira Ward, So Paulo Brazil Taboo Stake. Top right: Sister
missionaries, Missionary Training Center, So Paulo. Right: Bishop Mario Luiz de Souza da Silva,
Madureira Ward, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Madureira Stake, with his wife, Rejane, son Tiago, and daughter
Mariane. Background: A residential and business area of Rio de Janeiro.
[photo] President Domingos Svio Linhares, Jaboato Litoral Stake, with young women gathered for a
weeknight volleyball game.
[photos] Left: Bishop Milton B. Santos, Capo Redondo Ward, So Paulo Brazil Santo Amaro Stake, with
his wife, Isabel; daughters, Iris and Ivete, and son, Milton S. Santos. Background: Statue of the Savior
overlooking Rio de Janeiro.
[photos] Top: Fernanda Pereira Santos, Tijuca Ward, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Andara Stake. Above: Youth
of Rio de Janeiro Brazil Andara Stake at a seminary activity. Below: Marcia Linhares, Young Women
camp director for northeastern Brazil.
[photos] Below: Urban So Paulo seems to stretch to the horizon in every direction. Background: Botanical
garden in Curitiba.
[photo] Mathilde Felber de Castro Deus of Curitiba examines photos of missionaries who served in Brazil
when she was a girl.
[photos] Above: Missionaries in a class, Missionary Training Center, So Paulo. Below: Norberto Lopes,
So Paulo Brazil Stake mission president.
[photos] Below left: Street scene, colonial Olinda, adjacent to Recife. Right: Lucirley Goncalves Ferreira, a
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student at the Brooklin LDS Institute, So Paulo.

[photo] Milton Soares Jr. and his wife, Irene, LDS pioneers in Recife.
[photos] Left: Ernestina Conceico dos Santos, Curitiba Second Ward, Curitiba Brazil Stake, almost never
misses a temple trip. Left below: Achilles Miguel de Oliveira Jr., elders quorum president, Agua Branca
Branch, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Madureira Stake.
[photos] Below: Children in the Vila Gomes Ward, So Paulo Brazil Stake. Background: So Paulo Temple.

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