Santa Catarina is flooding everywhere down here. Joinville flooded this week, Chapeco, and Itajaí. It is raining like crazy all over the place! They said after today it is just gonna start raining again so we will see what happens!
But Floripa is still pretty in the rain! This week was really good! We are starting to find people and having more time in our area. We had a really cool experience this week...
So we talked to a family on the street the other day and the Dad Rubens said we could go by later on his day off. So we went and I was thinking with my little faith it isnt going to work because literally everyone says we can come by but no one ends up being home or when we get there say they are busy. But this guy answered the door and was really cool and told us to come in. His wife is Flavia and they have a one year old daughter Leticia. I thought everything was going to be really fancy here on the island but our ward is actually a very more humble area. Joinville was A LOT nicer.
Anyways we got to know them a little bit and they explained how they don't go to any church and really feel like they are needing God back into their lives right now. So we left them the first pamphlet and marked with them for tomorrow. But anyways we were finishing up and after the prayer I was just thinking that we had to be fast so we could get out of there and get going with everything but as soon as everyone said amen Rubens just totally broke into tears. After he was done crying he explained how he could totally feel the absence of God in his life and told us how their relationship was really strained because of financial problems and how he knows he has to turn things around.
But it was just so plain and simple to see that the gospel completes people! We visited an inactive person the other day who we found on the road and she hasn't had contact with the church for about five years. But you could just see how absolutely miserable she was! And maybe she doesn't want to admit but you could totally see that there is a huge chunk missing!
We need the gospel in our lives to be truly happy! But hopefully this family progresses! It would be awesome! The work here is slowly building up but hopefully soon it will be better!
We had a zone training this week about member missionary work because President Silva says that we havent learned what we need to yet so he told everyone that we need to re train on it and work better with the members because that is the key!
I miss Joinville because the members were awesome! They were totally doing awesome when we left. The members are nice and will go on visits with us but there is a really big division between the missionary work and the members. So President wants us to teach the members that that is not how it should be.
President is out doing interviews this week so it was slower and we didnt have as many things to do. So it gave us a good chunk of time in our area! But we also had to look for a new apartment because ours is too small for 4 so we found one this week. It looks like we will be moving in like a month! And the new apartment has AC!!!! So that will be the biggest blessing ever during this next summer! No one here uses AC. They all just use fans...
But also Luke had a birthday this week! 6 years old! I love you Luke! You are a total stud! Mom told me that you get your cast off soon! Nice work for being tough! But happy birthday!!!
Anyways hope everything is going great! I love you all so much! Have a great week!
Elder Keller
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