The Brasulista

Alf Gunn, former missionary in the Brazil South Mission, publishes an e-mail newsletter.  He is building a database of every missionary who ever served in the early Brazilian missions between 1935 and 1980.  He has devised a way to keep in touch with missionaries by the monthly e-mail newsletter. The effort is to identify all who served in the Brazilian Mission and subsequent missions from 1935 to 1980. 

He describes the newsletter:

This project began in the Brazilian South Mission (BSM), and today goes out to about 2000 former missionaries.  The newsletter shares news of the Church and the missionary work in Brazil today, missionary opportunities in Portuguese-speaking missions, and history and memories of Brazil.  We announce reunions.  It has been very popular among the alumni of the Brazilian Mission, Brazilian South, Brazil Central, Brazil North and etc.

The newsletter is called the "Brasulista, newsletter of the early Brazilian missions". For the sake of manageability the newsletter will be sent only to missionaries who served in those missions during the years BEFORE 1980 (and interested Brazilian members). But recipients may FORWARD newsletters to younger missionaries and any others with an interest in Brazil and the work.

You can expect a newsletter every month or so, and are invited to respond with information, corrections, inspiring experiences that may be of interest to the others.

For further information contact:
Alf Gunn (BSM, 62-65)
Gig Harbor, WA
253-851-1099
alf.gunn@juno.com


If you wish Alf will send you some past newsletters, including Elder Wm. Grant Bangerter’s essay on the growth of the work in Brazil.




(e-mail dtd March 11, 2009)