| Show missionary in brazil in a sao paulo branch mission ary meeting held sept 29 1951 elders edward M W thomas and lloyd J stevens were set apart by president rulon S howells as first and second counselors respectively in the brazilian mis sion slon presidency elder stevens is a son of brig ham E and afton johnston stevens of blanding and was born in provo utah on oct 5 1929 soon after his birth his family moved jk to blanding where he grew up on his fathers farm during his high school days el der stevens also attended the blanding seminary graduating in 1946 in 1949 he graduated hom san juan high and hi h R served arved as student body dt du dunne inz his senior year he continued his studies of chemistry at the utah state agricultural ri college in logan for a period of two years during his studies at the college he also found minme to take some classes he T DS institute of religion ani and was an active member of the church fraternity lambla delta sigma at home in blanding during the summer vacation he sewed as a a sunday school teacher in the 1 crayson a y 0 n W ward ard until the time he wa 1 se set t apa apart t to the brazilian M wion i 0 n on n july 22 1949 since going to brazil elder seven sevens 9 even s has served in the pirac birac icahn branch the santos branch a as district president of the buo d dijaneiro dJ aneiro 0 district as branch Pres president Hent in the rio claro branch and is now serving as pres dent of the campinas campanas Cam pinas district ile he alo cang ang in the mis missionary siona double quartet or octet which presented the opening ceremony flae where t the he brazil lan ian and american national anth enis ems were sung before each basketball game played by bry the unior sity of utah while they were in in brazil in november of 1949 also half time program of each game for the opening ceremonies and by the brigham young university who played 10 victor sous ious basket ball garnes games in brazil in june and july of 1950 elder edward thomas the first counselor is a representative of the albuquerque branch of new mexico this is the first time since the re ease of the 2 former counsel ors in july of 1950 that the pros pres has been reorganized in the mission also in brazil and working iv h the city of san paulo as the pinheiros os og branch president is dean A young formerly of blan ding ile he joins elder stevens in send ing his to the folk at home in san juan county |
