Seven New Brazil Missions

List of 58 Additional
Missions Being Created
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/list-of-58-additional-missions-created

With the influx of new missionaries, some existing missions will be divided to form these additional missions:

Angola Luanda
Argentina Comodoro Rivadavia
Argentina Posadas
Arizona Gilbert
Arizona Scottsdale
Australia Sydney North
Bolivia Santa Cruz North
Botswana Gaborone
Brazil Curitiba South
Brazil Fortaleza East
Brazil Juiz de Fora
Brazil Natal
Brazil Piracicaba
Brazil Santos
Brazil São Paulo West
California Bakersfield
California Irvine
California Rancho Cucamonga
Chile Santiago South
Colorado Fort Collins
Ecuador Guayaquil West
Ecuador Quito North
El Salvador San Salvador East
Georgia Macon
Ghana Accra West
Guatemala Cobán
Honduras San Pedro Sula West
Idaho Nampa
Idaho Twin Falls
Illinois Chicago West
Japan Tokyo South
Kansas Wichita
Korea Seoul South
Liberia Monrovia
México Cancún
México Ciudad Juarez
México Ciudad Obregón
México México City Chalco
México Pachuca
México Queretaro
México Reynosa
México Saltillo
New Zealand Hamilton
Nigeria Benin City
Ohio Cincinnati
Oregon Salem
Papua New Guinea Lae
Perú Huancayo
Perú Iquitos
Philippines Cavite
Philippines Cebu East
Philippines Legaspi
Philippines Urdaneta
Ukraine L'viv
Utah Salt Lake City East
Virginia Chesapeake
Washington Federal Way
Washington Vancouver

See also: Missions to Be Created to Accommodate Influx of New Missionaries

Hot Off the Presses . . . "Welcome the Task."

LeeAnn sent this great photo of Sister Geri Bangerter at the printer's.

"Glenda is holding up Mom's title page "Welcome the Task", which of course will be cut down to size.  

From left to right:

JaLayne (Paulo's wife), Paulo, Mom, Glenda and Lee Ann.  

"We saw pallets of pages from Mom's book.  It will be about 300 or so pages.  Sometime next week, Mom will get her books and take them home.  She ordered 1500 copies , , , $15.00 a copy....  We're all excited for Mom!  Heidi, Julie's youngest daughter, worked with Mom for 10 years, getting information, writting down her history, organizing the book, etc., a huge job!"

REMINDER

"Celebration season"

Sunday February 24th  through Sunday March 3rd.

Open House times:

   Sunday, Feb. 24    2-8 PM

   Monday, Feb. 25   12-8 PM

   Sunday, March 3    2-8 PM

If you would like to come at another time during the week, call Geri

at 801.756.4236. or 801.897.0554 (cell)

Location:  Bangerter Farm, 542 S. Alpine Hwy., Alpine, UT 84004

Norma Mills, 1934 - 3013

Obituary for Norma Mills Shiner

1934 ~ 2013
Norma Jean Mills Shiner, age 78 passed away February 6, 2013 in Bountiful, Utah. 
She was born November 30, 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Milford Millard Mills and Phyllis Daynes Mills. Norma married Craig R. Shiner April 11, 1963 in the Logan, Utah temple. 
Norma graduated from U of U in education 1957, served in Brazilian Mission 1959-1961. Active in Boy Scouting 36 years, taught 4th grade for 8 years. 
She is survived by husband Craig, sons Jon, Rob (Julie), Scott (Tammy), Dan (Aubrey), Tom (Laurel), and brother Ken (Chris) Mills, Daniel (Michelle), Kate, and 15 grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by brother Raymond Mills.
Viewing: Friday February 15 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.; Saturday February 16: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Services 12:00 p.m. at Mueller Park 2nd Ward 1825 South 850 East Bountiful, Utah. Interment in Bountiful City Cemetery following services.
The family wishes to express sincere thanks to Tender Care Hospice for compassionate, attentive, professional services rendered. 
Funeral Directors: UT Valley Mortuary. Condolences: www.uvfuneral.com

Guest book:

http://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/saltlaketribune/guestbook.aspx?n=norma-shiner&pid=163049902&cid=full

Norma on the far right, 1961.  Baptism of Suelena and Justino Gonzaga, Santos.  Others: President Saul Messias by Norma and Mary Etta Watson Parkinson, far left.  

April 2013 Reunion

Bangerter Group Reunion, April 4^th, 2013:                           

Our annual get-together will be held on Thursday, April 4^th, 2013, at the Alpine Stake Center, 98 East Canyon Crest Rd in Alpine, just north of the Bangerter farm.  The meeting will begin at 6 p.m.  This will be a good time to visit and bring each of us up-to-date with activities in Brazil.  Also, a few individuals will be talking about their recent activities with the saints in Brazil.  Guaranã and some snacks will be available as well.

For additional information, contact Kim Russell at (801)432-7463, or by e-mail at kim@therussells.net.

Season of Celebrating -- Geri Bangerter's 89th

Dear Beloved Brazilian Missionaries,

You are invited to join the Bangerter family in a celebration of

Geraldine Hamblin Bangerter’s 89th birthday. We are grateful for her

health and strength at this time. We have planned a season of

celebrating rather than a single day. She would love to see any of you

who are able to visit and would also be happy with a phone call.

Mother is still bright in her spirit and mind although she often uses

a walker to get around. She has made a remarkable recovery from her

stroke nearly two years ago. To commemorate good doctor reports she

went to Disneyland with Duella and her family after Christmas and had

a wonderful time riding around on Dad's motorized wheelchair.

Celebration season: Sunday February 24th  through Sunday March 3rd.

Open House times:

   Sunday, Feb. 24    2-8 PM

   Monday, Feb. 25   12-8 PM

   Sunday, March 3    2-8 PM

If you would like to come at another time during the week, call Geri

at 801.756.4236. or 801.897.0554 (cell)

Location:  Bangerter Farm, 542 S. Alpine Hwy., Alpine, UT 84004

For your information:

Geraldine’s recently printed biography, titled Welcome the Task, will

be available for purchase for $15.00 per copy for anyone who drops by

the house.   She would love to sign your copy.  She’s very excited

about this warm and charming full-color, beautifully designed 320 page

memoir.  Her granddaughter Heidi Shin has worked with her for over a

decade to transcribe interviews, search through journals and letters,

take photos and assemble artifacts. You will especially appreciate the

in-depth chapter about her time in Brazil. If you are not able to

visit for her birthday, but would like to purchase the book for

yourself and your family members, call Julie Beck, 801.518.9994, Heidi

Beck Shin 801.318.2043, or Cory Bangerter  801.885.3628.  Or, email:

corybangerter@hotmail.com, hjuneshin@gmail.com;

juliebbeck@comcast.net.

Much love to you,

Julie B. Beck

PS: For info about this and upcoming reunions and activities check our

mission website at: www.therussells.net/Brazil/

Carol Wheeler Brumfield, Brazil Missionary 1958-1960

Carol Brumfield

Obituary

Guest Book

1933 - 2012
Carol Beth Wheeler Brumfield died Monday, December 3rd, 2012. Heaven has received a remarkable angel. Carol was born October 31, 1933 to Fred C. and Geraldine Sutton Wheeler in Logan, Utah. She served an LDS mission in Brazil before marrying her sweetheart, Carlie G. Brumfield on January 14, 1967. They were later sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple and had three sons.
Carol graduated from BYU as an RN, where she later taught nursing. She dedicated her life to helping others, working as an RN for many years at LDS Hospital in SLC, UT; Women's Hospital in Baton Rouge, LA; and Mountain View Hospital in Payson, UT. She also worked as Community Education Director for Primary Children's Hospital. In her later years, she returned to Brazil on a medical humanitarian mission.
Carol is survived by her three sons Paul (Jennifer) of Spanish Fork; Scott (Jodi) of Santa Clara, UT; Ryan (Sandy) of Ivins, UT; and 12 grandchildren. She is also survived by Brothers Jim (Cathy) Wheeler and Frederick Wheeler of Salt Lake City; and by step-children John (Heidi) Hoop of Broken Arrow, OK; Julie (Greg) Littleton of Tulsa, OK; Lisa (Kevin) Arrington of Cowetta, OK and 12 step-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband and parents.
Funeral services will be held Friday, December 7, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at the Hawthorne LDS Ward Chapel, 808 East Roosevelt Avenue (1450 South), Salt Lake City. Viewings will be held on Thursday, December 6th from 6pm-8pm at Larkin Mortuary, 260 E. South Temple and on Friday, December 7th from 10am-11am at the Ward. Burial will be in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Published in Salt Lake Tribune from December 5 to December 6, 2012 

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/saltlaketribune/obituary.aspx?n=Carol-Brumfield&pid=161489306#fbLoggedOut

LDS Portuguese-Language Blog.

For your information, Kim and I are both doing Sharing the Gospel Online church-service missions.  Nice to see him after all these years.  Among other things Kim has created facebook pages and googleplaces listings for Brazil Institutes of Religion.  He is now assisting  Richard Robbins, our Sharing the Gospel Online supervisor, launch a Portuguese-language blog.  This is what they do:



"We’ve been working on the new Brazil site on LDS.org .  The main purpose of setting up a blog is to point searches to the Church’s official website for Brazil.  Doing that improves the rankings of the Church’s official site. 

"Getting traffic to the  Portuguese blog is somewhat of a secondary priority.  For those who do visit, we want to have useful and enjoyable content.  Since I [Richard] like to talk about religion and politics, I’ll be writing articles about those subjects as well as others that interest me.  If I put enough blog entries on that site (10-20), it will begin to get some recognition and authority from Google, and I can then pass that authority to the Church’s official sites." 


Richard and Kim's invitation to you Portuguese speakers/writers:
 "You can sign up on this site to blog in Portuguese and help our new Brazil website:

"On your posts, you can link to pages on http://www.lds.org.br.  "


 Click on this link for a sample of a blog entry.

Add your entries, comments, likes, etc.  If you have questions you can contact Richard, sr@ldschurch.org or Kim, kim@therussells.net.