William Fred Heinz, 87, called to the South American Mission in 1927, remembers well disembarking from a small boat at Sao Francisco do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 17, 1928, with his companion, Elder Emil A. J. Schindler. The pair traveled to the German colony of Joinville (inset, taken about 1927) to begin missionary work in Brazil.

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The Brazilian Mission was organized 60 years ago, in 1935, and now the Church has grown to more than half a million members in Brazil. Recollections of Elder Heinz and another of Brazil's early missionaries, Elder David J. Ballstaedt, are on pages 4-5.

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