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This summer, I did something I haven’t done during my entire career as a physical therapist. I took time off from work and left the country for three months. Many of you know that I’ve been working with my wife, Cindy, in a non-profit organization we founded last year known as Care for Life. Our work focuses entirely in Mozambique, Africa, and involves providing a free health care clinic, providing agricultural assistance in gardening and small animal production, and education in several other areas, including health, agriculture, Portuguese literacy, English and computer training.

We know the common pattern lds are using even now in Africa is to send in a humanitarian couple to do work of that nature -- so it opens a door for their mission, missionaries, stakes, branches and mission presidents of a district to follow. (IOW, the humanitarian work rarely stands on its own as the lone motivation...now while the Mormons aren't alone in often having hidden motivations re: humanitarian work, it just seems like the Lds pattern in Africa is too "coincidental" for it to be anything but a structured way of how to get the governments to approve of their presence and expansion in that country)