I've decided to make a
series of posts about my mission, specifically, about Recife. I think I do
some about my gym too, but here's the intro for now!
Brigham
Young once said that if a young man served a mission to see the world that he
would come back sorely disappointed. He also once said that there were people
living on the moon and sun. Bah! I refused to serve a mission with my eyes
closed. I saw the world. Brigham Young only saw Great Britain and Canada, if he
had served in my Recife he would have known better.
Experiencing
another culture shoves your own up your nostrils. I learned what being an
American meant, the good and bad. I questioned why I was a certain way, why I
did certain things. I adopted Brazilian good and threw out American bad. I
treasured American good and sorrowed at Brazillian bad. No leader of a country,
no religious leader, no one, should be allowed to have influence in this world
without having tried it. Without having another world purge themselves of their
bad and fill them with it’s good. I believe God is God because he is of every
culture. All that is good in Brazilians, Americans, and everyone was given to
them by God. In some of the potions he made were added a lock of his hair,
another, his toenail clippings, another, a tear. Here you go, take this talent,
and share it with your neighbors. Learn from them in return. No one is given
the whole ten talents.
