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Three Mysterious Doctors

In 1935, somewhere in the interior of Brazil, a woman was pregnant with twins. There were complications. Her husband took her to a local doctor who examined her and told her husband to take her home. He believed she and the babies were going to die and there was nothing he could do. The husband indeed took her home and immediately set out looking for someone who could help.

The ailing mother went to bed and sought the Almighty for help. Suddenly:

“Three doctors came to the house. One stood at the door, one at the foot of the bed, and the other one attended to her until the babies were born. Then they promptly left.”

When the husband came back, she asked him who the three doctors were which he had sent. He knew nothing of the three doctors as he had sent no one.

Several years later, two missionaries came to the interior of Brazil and shared the restored gospel of Jesus Christ with the family. In time, mother, father, and the twin boys joined the Church. Years passed.

Those two boys emigrated to America and settled in Idaho. Paolo, one of the boys, lived and farmed in the Territon Mud Lake area of Idaho. He worked for years as an ordinance worker in the Idaho Falls Temple. He was a great missionary and a kind, good, and humble man. His brother Peter also emigrated to the United States. Peter served as a mission president in Brazil and later temple president of the Porto Alegre, Brazil temple, as well as a sealer in the Rexburg, Idaho temple for many years.

Just before he passed away in 2022, Paolo related this story to my friend Byron K. Blaine of Territon, who shared it with me. I’m sure you’re wondering: who were those three mysterious doctors?

“After Paolo read the Book of Mormon and learned of the Three Nephites, he ascribed to them as being the three doctors who helped their mother.”

Out of the heartland of Brazil, lost and scattered lambs of the house of Israel were loved, found, and gathered with the Saints forever more. Praise God.

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Byron K. Blaine