St. Michael Grad Serving in Brazil for Two Years

Eating an abundance of fresh fruit, teaching people in a different culture, and visiting the new Manaus Brazil Temple excite Dallin Colgrove for a two–year mission to the rainforests of Brazil for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  

“I hear that there are millions of fruit that are really good,” Colgrove, 19,
of St. Michael, said. This 2011 St. Michael-Albertville graduate isn’t postponing his college education at Brigham Young University after just a year to sample exotic fruit but to teach the people in this part of Brazil about Jesus Christ.

His mission begins just one month after an LDS temple was dedicated in Brazil’s Amazon region, bringing new interest about the Church to this area with approximately 40,000 members. The Manaus Brazil Temple is the 138th temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints worldwide and the sixth in Brazil.

The son of Nathan and Lorilee Colgrove, Dallin has prepared for this opportunity for years, knowing since he was a child that he wanted to go on a mission for his church and “give two years of service to the Lord.”  His
father served a mission to Brisbane, Australia.

His preparation has included a missionary preparation class at BYU, a church-sponsored university, and four years of attendance at a daily youth seminary class during high school to learn the scriptures and doctrines necessary to teach. That learning—including language lessons in Portuguese—continues for him at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, UT, where he started his mission on July 11 before he leaves for Brazil.

Colgrove is an Eagle Scout and participated in youth programs and scouting in the Elk River Ward, an LDS congregation that meets in Ostego.