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I've learned more about Grandpa and Grandma Taylor while sitting around the kitchen table in Charlotte than I ever learned in Jacutinga. Alton and Derly have the most wonderful anecdotes about the way ..... for instance, I learned that my grandmother made a successful push to get all of Jacutinga's sanitation crew dressed in nice uniforms. Alton told me that Grandpa flew him from Goiânia in the small plane, landed in the middle of the street of a small town in the boondocks of Goiás, helped him find a place to stay ("you can take a bath in the creek"), and then told him he would be back in a week to pick Alton up.... Grandpa told Alton to evangelize....and Alton had just arrived in Brazil and couldn't speak Portuguese. And then Grandpa took off in the plane.....leaving Alton there.....and came back in a week.
In the words of dear Mr. Burkhart, Carl and Alton were two pioneer missionaries.
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