But this next week is going to be really interesting because it will be transfer week so pray for me that I don't mess anything up!
So for this next week I am sticking with a kid named Elder Delaney from Utah. He is going to stay with me until President finishes up with the transfer. He has been out for a year and 3 months and is a good kid!
Alright well considering that I didnt send a General last week I will update on all the investigators!
Dad you had asked about Yuri that smart guy we were teaching, He was about 100 pages through the Book of Mormon and loving it but didnt want to accept our visits for a while because he had people staying at his house for a while during the party time of brasil so we took the book of mormon back and explained that the moment he wanted to start receiving the visits again we would be back in a flash! So now we are waiting on his call. He said February he would start to have time to accept us again. But he was so bummed when we took the Book of Mormon away! And i was super happy about that because he was seeing the importance that it has! Not that he was sad of course but that he acquired a little bit of hunger for the scriptures! This happened about three weeks ago so after carnaval we are going to try to get back into contact with him.
Rubens is on fire! He is almost done with 2 Nephi and loving everything about the gospel! He gets 18 days off work in February so he will be at church every sunday possible! And he is super excited because Flávia and Letícia get back on Wednesday so that will be great! I dont know if i said anything but they changed the tickets to Feb. 3rd! So pray that Flavia will have an open heart when she gets here!
Maria and Angelo are also awesome! They were the ones we cut a while back and then wanted us to come back. The ones that went to church because she got her answer that the church was true when she only get two and a half hours of sleep the night before sunday but was able to wake up to go to church! They have come back from Xanxerê now and went to church last week! They are finishing up the principles of the Gospel book and are totally loving it because it is really simplified and easy to understand! Angelo just finished up 9th grade (they are going back to finish up school) and is totally dominating in the reading part. He just learned how to read a little bit ago but he loved the Principles of the Gospel because for the first time in his life he is able to understand the doctrine for himself!
They asked us in this last visit how everything needs to work for them to be baptized and what has to happen and how they have to get married and stuff so that is great!
These two couples just have to get married and Rubens just has to get his day off as sunday and then they are good to go! We are also gonna gave to teach Flavia everything that she missed but things are going really good!
Rodolfo got a job this week which is awesome but that means less visits. We are going to visit him tonight. Its been about a week and a half since he got the job and we havent gotten to visit him. So we will see what happens tonight.
But anyways not this past week but the week before ANOTHER missionary had to go home early because of problems out here on the mission. And this time was different because i was super close to this guy! And the worst part about it was that when we lived together he was a super obedient and powerful missionary! I was absolutely shocked when President told us that he would have to be going home.
And i share this because it goes to show that none of us are invulnerable to satans temptations. No matter who we are or at what stage of life we are in! But we start going down when we forget about the little things. I cant remember the story but its in one of the standard works book about the prophet that was praying for strength to endure to the end on his death bed. That sounds pretty crazy if you think about it. On his death bed just a few moments away from dying what can the guy do? But he gotten to a level so advanced in his life that he wanted to stay completely worthy until the very end!
And we gotta be like that! It is hard for me to always keep my guard up but it is just something that we gotta do!
But anyways I am out of time now but i love you all so much! We also had a sweet missionary transmisson and it was great! We learned a lot of great things about teaching so I am really going to focus and teaching and following the spirit in the lessons (and in all other aspects) in these last six months.
Also President told us this week that Elder Zwick of the seventy is coming to our mission in March! That is going to be sweet! He gave an awesome talk a few years ago in conference called, "What Are You Thinking?" Super excited!
Love you all! Hope you have an awesome week!
Elder Keller
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