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É hora de relatar o dia 4 de julho, Dia da Independência.  Dirigimos até Salt Lake City para tomar um brunch com quatro de nossos filhos...

This is John Stewart Farnsworth pictured with his cousin Janet Carsell. John, along with Andrew Carsewell, is one of my two nephews. He...

Vistamos muitosos familiares e amigos desde que voltamos para casa. É muito divertido ver todos novamente. Esta é uma foto nossa com Allen 4...

É aniversário dele e ele está fazendo 19 anos. Ele e Allen planejaram um peito de boi para o jantar hoje à noite. Ele queria aprender a cozinhar um...

Acho que os lilases crescem em climas frios. Elas são as flores favoritas de Allen. Elas florescem apenas uma vez por ano na primavera, mas agora...

Geralmente temos um clima mais quente na primeira parte de maio. Visitamos Martha e vimos seu condomínio pela primeira vez. É ótimo para...

Esqueci de tirar fotos. Estava tão ocupado. No sábado, reunimos uma pequena família. Cinco dos nossos filhos estavam lá e vários netos. Comemos...

Fomos ao Templo do Centro da Cidade de Provo esta semana. Foi bom ver as pessoas com quem trabalhamos lá antes. Eles ficaram felizes em nos...

Alguns narcisos e uma foto de Provo vista da montanha. Você pode ver o Lago Utah à distância. 18 de abril - saindo para uma caminhada...

O tempo de viagem foi de 30 horas. Nosso filho David e o neto James com sua esposa Megan nos encontraram no aeroporto. David nos levou até...

We have three 50 lb. suitcases and one smaller carryon, that we checked through to SLC - but we will have to go through customs in Dallas. I am...

Tapioca with meat filling on the right and below a passion fruit mouse that was frozen. Delish!

A couple of mugs on a mug...

Mission Presidents are encouraged to take a few days now and then to rest and rejuvenate. Gwen arrived from Saudi Arabia and we all spent a few...

We are trying fruits that we haven't tired before. The smaller one is Graviola and the larger one is called Jáca. The inside has large sections of fruit and...

Sidewalk Design in Natal

Julia Ostergar and Kevin Escobar
Allen 3 asked me to do this word for Cathy. It is...

This was a day for a Relief Society picnic.  Relief Society is the largest women's organization in the world. I remember attending for the first time...

Announcing the wonderful and welcome arrival to our family of Blair Lois Treanor with her parents Ruth Ostergar Treanor and Charlie Treanor...

We received 14 new missionaries this week. It is always a busy day. It usually starts with lunch. Allen collects passports and official documents...

This is a long weekend in Brazil. For some it is as long as 5 days. It's CARNAVAL! I guess you would compare it to Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It...

A few photos from January. Allen's birthday tapioca. It looks a bit like a taco with a meat filling. The "taco" is chewy and tasty and a good vehicle for lots of...

This month, there were 6 zone conferences. In the middle of them, one of the young missionaries had an accident. It happened during the night. Elder...

Our flight has been booked. We leave Natal on the 3rd of April and arrive in Salt Lake City about noon on April 4th. We will have two more missionary...

Our time is winding down in Natal and for our mission. Tickets are ordered for missionaries 3 months in advance of their departure, which...

Another photo collage of colorful buildings. The Church was built around 1756 and was the 3rd church built in Natal. We caught the bride just...

These are my pool friends. We are having a little Christmas party with secret friends. Fred is our teacher. He is taking the photo...

We took a car tour this evening (Sunday) to see the Christmas lights. A big theme in Natal is the Three Wise Men or Reis Magos. They have many...

Levi Donald Linn on the left and James Alexander Ostergar on the right. They were born in October and November 2023...

Ponta Negra  is the most famous and visited urban beach  in Natal. And it houses the most unique sand dune in the State: Morro do Careca. This beach is...

The colors  of the Brazilian flag are blue and green and yellow. Water, earth, and sunshine, I believe. The fellow with the cart is a person who does card...

I have been thinking about collage lately. There are times when we whiz by something in the car and I think, I would like a picture of that.  Therefore...

These are a few photos from the last two weeks. Left to right and top to bottom. My orchid! I bought this when we first arrived in Brazil at a grocery...

It is new missionary week. See a previous post) Missionaries will arrive on Friday the Thirteenth. We are receiving 22, which means lots of paperwork...

These are my brothers, John and Jim Farnsworth. Jim died yesterday, September 29, 2023, at the age of 86. I am the only one left of my siblings, and I...

Allen Jr. & Nancy

Allen III & Cathy

Allen IV & Cynthia...

The fruit of the cashew is delicious and sweet and juicy. It also fills the kitchen with a terrific scent of paradise! You can see that the nut grows at the...

About every six weeks, we receive new missionaries. Friday, 12 new missionaries came and one came on Saturday because of flight problems...

AUGUST 22-25 HAPPY LIST

Lots of trucks to pass
Colorful town signs...

New phones and lunch

O Mirante - The View with A fresh fish lunch. 

Caranúba Palms

Art Therapy. An overabundace of "cute" memes. 

Did I mention missionaries? Our Ward. Clouds and palm tees and visitors like Julia...

Twos days after the wedding Reinaldo and Claudia were baptized. They were so happy. And it was a little bit crazy. Reinaldo's Mom and step-dad...

Edycarla had to wait longer than we thought. She looked chic in my suglasses and her new dress. Claudia and Reinaldo also have three boys...

Elder Ferreira's leg is all better from his burn. I liked his t-shirt at the Pday run to beat the President. Another gate in front of a door. This one has...

We have about 108 missionaries in the Brazil Natal Mission. We will have quite a few more by Christmas. Allen and Cathy are the mission...

Twenty years ago, someone told us about an island off the coast of Brazil which was a nature preserve. I looked it up and thought, "Wouldn't it be...

We were lonely for family and friends this week. The activities on the Fourth of July are always enjoyable. And Canada Day was on the first...

NA RUA !

THIS IS WHAT YOU SAY FIRST THING IN THE MORNING WHEN YOU GO TO WORK.  "INTO...

This is the beach at Genipabu, which is just north of the city of Natal. We went here with my cousin Peter Bybee,his wife Gayle and President and...

Street Median means a raised center strip of street right-of-way with varying widths containing landscaping and street appurtenances..

Sister Medeiros on the left has finished her mission. She will be going home to the state of Acre in Brazil. It is a small state in the northwest of the country...

This coming week, we will have transfers and we will receive 4 new missionaries - a small group. We are traveling to Currais Novos today with Allen...

A Bishop shepherds his flock, but in this case the Bishop is shepherding an Iguana that found its way to church. They had to cross a busy street to find...

We have two missionaries in our care this weekend. Elder Miller who has been having undiagnosed health problems, and Elder...

Allen and Cathy had some extra time driving to the Interior one day. I gave them some referrals we had received that were along the way at places that...

This building is on our way to the mission office. It's  at the beginning of a commercial district, and I wondered what it would be. I started taking...

One block east of our apartment is our chapel, and one block west is the City Cathedral. We have seen a procession to the cathedral go down our street...

I have a very nice neurologist, Marcelo Marinho. Doing something for the first time in a foreign country takes some getting used to. Every...

The city is full of music and bells and chocolate filled Easter Eggs. Friday was a holiday and many people go away to the beach or to be with family...

On Thursday, March 23, we drove to São Miguel de Gostoso with Allen & Cathy. It is on the coast north of us about 2 hours, and the beach actually runs...

Borracha means rubber in Portuguese. A Borracharia is a rubber place. Many places use tires as signs for their tire stores...

Moqueca - Brazilian Fish Stew and a whole Brazilian fish with vegetables and teeth on the right. The trip to Recife took about 4 hours one way. We visited...

What’s not to like? Every Brazilian breakfast I have seen serves cake. Some are made with corn, some with tapioca, and some are made with wheat...

When we were at the MTC for training I happened to pick up a paper for this program. Last week, 2 keyboards with a course of instruction in...

Julia was here in January and I had a TIA on February 3. It is now February 25. I have had lots of tests. I am almost 100%. Thanks for the...

It took us 3 months to actually get to the beach and walk on it.  It took Julia coming for a visit!  She went the first day she arrived! I love the clouds we see...

A wealth of sights, sounds, smells, touching and taste. A huge open air market in Natal.  I am holding some saffron.  The women are shelling beans...

This is Damião. He is 82 year old. He was baptized last Sunday.  When he was in the baptismal font, he was quite emotional and he put his hands overs...

Many of the referrals that we get belong to people that live somewhere out in the country.  Everyone in Brazil calls it the "Interior". Some request a Book...

Caju fruit or cashew.  They are sitting here upside down.  There is one nut per fruit. The fruit is stringy but makes wonderful juice...

It's the new year! We hope it's a great one for everyone.  Maybe a banana a day will keep us all happy.  The ones we have been eating are...

We see the occasional horse cart in the city. There are two-wheeled carts around town that are pulled by people, horses, donkeys or even motorcycles...

I am going to skip all I have missed up to this point and talk about Christmas.  (I will record what I have missed from time to time in the future.)

Because I like to send cards and letters through the mail.  We walked to a post office (correiro) this week that was near the office. It was a very small one...

Lays has been holding out on us. We can get chicken flavored potato chips here! They are pretty good.

The first Sunday in our ward, we met the Bastos family.  The parents both served missions and were in the MTC when we were there almost 20 years...

We were greeted by the Mission President.  A view from our window on the 31st floor of our apartment building.  Pineapple cake for the missionaries...

How do I explain that in Portuguese.  We worked it out with a bit of English and a bit of Portuguese! This photo is of a very nice seafood...

Estou tentando uma nova maneira de postar para que um lembrete possa ser enviado aos meus assinantes...

The days are gettign shorter and the mornings have been nippy. Monday, I was cold all day. Tuesday I was better prepared at the MTC and took a...

Mark and Allen saying their goodbyes on Sunday. Anna and Gwen had everyone help to put together a wonderful luncheon..homemade.pulled pork...

James Atticus (the most handsome James) is here helping me figure out how to make a blog post that actually shows up, and that I can repeat on my...

We practiced packing our suitcases for Brazil yesterday. It looks like we'll get by just fine with our allotment of luggage. We had a great visit with...