First off the most amazing Mom in the world sent me this awesome 25 days of christmas package and we are loving it because of all the "Buddy the Elf" quotes that come along with it. Elder Hull the other american in our house and I have just been quoten up elf all the time!
But I didnt talk a lot about our investigators last week so I'm gonna update more on that this week.
First off Rubens is a total stud! He is learning how to study the Book of Mormon really well. He is using the footnotes and really studying and finding the doctrine for himself! We had a lesson with him this morning and he was just talking about how amazed he is with the change that has happened with him since he met the church and started studying the Book of Mormon. We showed him the quote in Preach My Gospel about how the true doctrine, when it is really understood changes our behavior faster than anything else that!
It looks like Flavia is probably gonna come back as well! They were really worried because they needed to get a spot in the "creche" which is kindergarten here for Leticia their daughter so that Flavia could work as well and Rubens was praying a lot for that because it has been a year since Flavia has been able to work and it has been hurting for them. But this week the kindergarten called up and said she got in which was a huge answer to their prayers! So keep praying for them!
We are teaching another couple whos names are Maria and Angelo. They both probably have 30 years. They are really awesome but really dont have time to do anything. Elder Fernandez was already visiting them for about 4 months when I got here and they had never once gone to church but were actually reading the Book of Mormon and understanding so they didnt want to cut them. But we finally ended up telling them to send us a message when they had more time for visits and to be able to go to church. So two weeks ago she called and said that we could go by and we went and talked about going to church and she said that she would go. (I forgot to mention all of this in last weeks email) And they ended up going and it was awesome but it was just this week that we found out the cool part.
Maria told us that they got home from helping their sister out in the hospital at 4:30 in the morning 2 sundays ago. That was the Sunday they said they would go to church. So before going to bed, she and Angelo knelt and prayed and said, "Heavenly Father, if this really is the true church you have to wake us up tomorrow morning at 7:30 so that we can go". So three hours later without an alarm or anything she waked up and looks at the clock and it says 7:30.
So she went to church, loved it and said that now there two goals are to get married and to get baptized. Here summer for schools is starting and they had full time jobs and were going to school at night until 10:00 and that is why they never had time. But now school is out and during this summer they said they are going to do everything possible to get ready to be baptized!
They go to Xanxerê this week to visit family and come back in the beginning of January so we will see what happens with them!
But there are a few other couples who we have started teaching and it is funny because every person we find always has problems. WE ALL have problems. From the richest of us, to the poorest, it doesnt matter. But the Gospel cures it all if we just make the hard choice to trust in God and try to live it a little bit. I look at the difference between Rubens and some other couples we are also teaching who are not progressing.
Rubens has changed one hundred percent! He is saving himself from divorce, fixing up his relationship with everyone at work (he was getting close to getting fired) reading the scriptures every day and he is so happy and he tells us that every time we go ever there!
There is another couple though that about a month after we started visiting the wife found out that her husband was cheating on her. And it devestated her and it turned into a really ugly situation. And there are quite a few that we have started teaching and they just dont want to follow the Gospel and you just know that all the problems they have are just gonna stay the same. Nothing is gonna change until we start to want to change it!
And a lot of the times to take that first step is really hard. But I dont know how to explain it better then Alma does in Alma 32. If we just give the Lord a chance he is gonna show us that he is there and that he has got the power to help us with everything in our lives! Work, school, family whatever!
But anyways I am thankful for the best family ever and parents who have always taught me to live the gospel. I would be so done for if i was alone because i dont think i would have the sufficient faith to want to try the whole "church thing" out. To come on a mission and find out for myself. But God shows us if we want to know for ourselves! That is the one hundred percent truth!
But I love you guys so much and hope that everything is going well! Have an awesome week!
Elder Keller
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