Florianópolis is a gorgeous city! I hope I get more time there but at least now we will be able to go in more often for counsel meetings! Super excited for that!
But President talked a lot about how we cant fear man before fearing God. Members here are great people but rules in Brasil arent on the top of the priority list. So a lot of the time that is how a missionary ends up breaking a rule, because they want the member to like them and so they just go along with it. He talked about how we need to realize that when we are on Gods side we dont need to worry about anything! Things will always work out for the better.
He also talked a lot about our heros in life. How in our day to day decisions we have to think about those people and ask ourselves how would they act in the situations that we encounter every day. And I think that is just awesome advice. He talked about Helaman chapter 5 and the reasons that the word remember is in there so many times is becuase one of our biggest problems as the natural man is forgetting! And we cant forget! We have to always remember what the Lord has done for us and that he will continue to bless us if we keep the commandments!
One of the coolest things I noticed at the Conference was that the spirit there was really powerful! And it was a little bit different than the other times we are with President but I think it was because all the missionaries there were the ones who are doing their best be obey, follow President, and just all in all be a good missionary. And it was super cool to be able to see that! President Silva talks about how a lot of the time, just a few disobedient missionaries are the cause of a mission not reaching its true potential.
But people wise was great this week as well! Sonia stopped drinking coffee, awesome! Cevada here is a drink that is very similar to coffee but isnt against the word of wisdom. Thanks mom for the advice! Totally worked! But now the biggest problem is her family. All her kids are super against the church and so she is afraid to lose her kids if she gets baptized so we moved the baptismal date back to october. She already has one daughter that hasnt spoken to her in a few years becuase of a church she started following. Super sad! They are all older and have families but hopefully we can figure that out. Pray for the Lord to be able to soften her kids hearts! Oh and Sonia is in Helaman in the Book of Mormon already!
Lucas and Eli as usual are awesome! We had an awesome experience with Eli. It was just like how it should be with every investigator who is an elect. We talked about testimonies of the Book of Mormon and she has been reading it like crazy! And she started talking to us about how her life and her families life has changed one hundred percent because of the church and the scriptures and then she said, "And I can say that I know the Book is true for myself now. I know it's true, I know it's true and nothing that happens in my life will be able to make me deny that."
That is the phrase that every missionary wants to hear! haha. So they are doing great! We are going to visit them tonight with the stake seminary teacher and her husband so that should be awesome! Lucas is doing good and we challenged them to establish a date for their wedding in November and work to be able to have Lucas walking by then!
So yeah the week was great! Thanks to Elder Moore who is a pro at working with members the ward is totally turning around! We talked to Bishop this week because he works by our house and the ward now is going to be doing a 40 day fast to help the missionary work and the unity in the ward get better. So one member or family will pick one of the forty days and fast on that day and then on the last day we will have a big activity to end the fast so that will be awesome! And the ward is fired up about it!
But anyways things are going great here! We have a Zone Conference with President this week so that should be awesome! But I love and miss you all so much and hope everything is going great! Have an awesome week!
Elder Keller
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