Our message, the message I will be sending the Brazilian people, is that we have a loving Heavenly Father that wants us to return to him some day.
Because our Heavenly Father loves us He sent us prophets, like Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, and John the Baptist to help us gain a better understanding on how to return to Him.
God knew we were inherently imperfect so He sent His son, Jesus Christ, to provide us with a perfect example and to atone for our sins so that it could be possible to return to Him again.
While upon the Earth, Christ established His church and granted unto the apostles the priesthood, or authority to act in God's name.
Shortly following the death of the apostles that authority was taken from the Earth. People took what they knew from Christ's church and developed several churches, each with some element of truth, but all lacking the complete truth and the priesthood authority.
One day a young man named Joseph Smith knelt in earnest prayer asking which of the churches of his time was true. Immediately after a pillar of light fell upon him and he saw God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ, who then told Joseph it was time to bring the priesthood back to the Earth and restore Christ's true church.
He was called to be a prophet, like the prophets of old, to guide us in the same way that they once did. Along with him twelve other men were called as apostles to lead the church like in the time of Christ.
He was then directed to translate the Book of Mormon, a record of Christ's dealings on the American Continent, to help support the bible.
That same priesthood authority has been since passed down and we have a living prophet, Thomas S. Monson, leading and guiding Christ's true church today, helping it's members live more Christ centered lives so that they may one day live with Him again.
This message has brought me a lot of peace in my life, I sincerely believe it to be true, and for that reason I have decided to go on this mission trip.