In an interview with the provincial and socius, I told them that my real vocation was to the missions. The provincial said, "We are the largest mission order in the world." He didn't guarantee anything, but that it would be a good possibility. So I said OK.

We were there a year and a half or so, then we really got together with the provincial of the Bahia Province in Brazil. And he asked us--I think it was Ola Nelson and myself--to go up to the northern part of Brazil Our headquarters were in the city of Belem, but all of our work was on the island of Maraj�, which is in the delta of the Amazon, about one degree below the equator, and fifteen miles from Belem. And I worked with Ola Nelson in one of the outlying parishes. The bishop in charge of Maraj� was an Italian Jesuit. And the provincial at the time tried to get as many of us as he could to go up there and work. There were ten outlying parishes, as you could call them. And actually we were only working one person to a parish. I think there were, to start with, four brothers and six priests, two of us Americans, one Spaniard, and, I think, the others were Italian.