So first off, more about my companion Elder Fernandez. The guy is awesome and I love teaching with him! He is from santiago chile although 3 years ago his family and he moved to viña del mar, which is a gorgeous place on the beach. His parents are both converts and were baptized in their teens. His dad served a mission in Chile and it seems like they are a pretty solid family! He has one sister and it is just his family who are members. No one else is active. He has a few aunts that are members as well but the majority arent active i think. But he is an awesome guy! He extended a transfer on the mission so he can stay till February. So it will be interesting to see if he stays here longer.
Our area is all hills haha! We have a part along the west side of the island and the way it works is there is a main road that runs parallel to the water front and then every single road goes up the side of super steep hills. So its a great work out ever day! Our area probably is the least prettiest of all of them in Floripa but it is still gorgeous! We live with two other elders, Nascimento and Hull. From São Paulo and texas. They are cool guys! All the secretaries live by the office but we see them all the time! and every friday we basically see the whole zone because everyone has to go the church building in the center to have to meetings. So i still see moore all the time! I am also back with Sierras who is awesome as well!
But the island is really big. It is the second biggest city in santa catarina and joinville is the first, but in land mass floripa is bigger. It is raining cats and dogs here so we will see if it clears up soon! The ward is really cool and there are a lot of cool members on the island! Elder Anderson talked about a family from here in his talk from april of 2013. I love the island! and it is definitely one of the strongest areas of the mission member wise so im excited to work!
The work in our ward is kind of at a stand still and in a big cutting of investigator process so we are trying to find a lot of people right now so we dont have to worry about cutting. But the Lord is helping us find!
And time and time again I am so amazed by President Silvas knowledge of doctrine and the scriptures. He said he loved being in charge of seminary and institute because his job for 20 plus years was to study the scriptures. And it has always been his biggest thing to really know the doctrine. One of his biggest quotes that he uses is, "where are all the john taylors of today?" he talks about bible bashing and he said that no one knew the scriptures better than john taylor, and john taylor made sure that was the case so that he could always defend his faith. And that is how we need to treat the scriptures as members! We need to know the doctrine of the church.
But it is such a huge testimony builder that God calls the leaders. When Elder Eyring called President Silva, he told him that his name had been in Salt Lake for a few years now and they were just waiting to call him to be President but they had to wait for the right time and im so thankful he got called now!
I love my mission! And im so glad that im here! But i love you guys so much and hope that everything is going great! have a great week!
Elder Keller
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