#LightTheWolrd

The awesome missionaries serving in our branch bring so much light with their smiles and love,
we love when our girls go out with them to do their work, our girls learn good things with them.

 To celebrate the month of our Savior's birth, our family is participating in the Light The World initiative (doing simple acts to share light each day) and are inviting others we meet around town to join us!

(You can join, too!  https://www.comeuntochrist.org/light-the-world for English or https://www.vindeacristo.org/seja-a-luz-do-mundo for Português)

Today's suggestion was to post highlights of an example of someone giving Christlike service. We felt to highlight some of the missionaries we have met here from our own church and others who generously volunteer years of their lives to share love and light with others.

Today we met with the president of the Manaus mission for our church, which includes our city. What a good man! He has a very complicated job, which he does with his heart because he loves the Savior. He and his wife left their home in Sao Paolo for three years to be here overseeing 180 missionaries and multiple congregations in a very large and difficult-to-travel geographic region. He could use so much more help--any of you who speak (or willing to learn) Português available to come serve here?

Also, this weekend, we met a Baptist missionary from Mississippi who has spent the last 10 years here living on the river and teaching Bible English to the river people and helping them with medical needs. He recently got back from helping get a young man to Manaus who had a flesh-eating bacteria infect his brain, and was happy to report the boy is healing well.

And here is our friend Kennedy. We have been very impressed with this young man. We met him as the carpenter who was selling a table big enough for our family, and hired him to also build us a few other pieces. He told us his story of spending 6 years of his life, beginning at age 15, as a missionary for his church helping the indigenous people deeper in the rain forest. He's now diligently attending our English class to help him with other opportunities to do good in the world.

We are so inspired by the selfless service these and other missionaries of many kinds give all over the world!