We have had no time lately because we have to plan for Elder Zwick coming into the mission but the Lord has been blessing us a ton to always have people to teach! And it is interesting because we have beeing really trying hard to work right in the area by the church because that is what Elder Costa and Presidente Silva want us to by doing.
Originally with the 3 Km rule we tried always working right on the border because we knew right by the chapel had been all tracted out. But in these last couple months we have literally beeing working in 1 or 2 bairros right by the church and the Lord is just giving us tons of people, but not only people but families to teach! And our group has grown! Are investigaors right now are:
Rubens and Flavia, Family Odair and Denise, Family, Maria and Angela, Couple, Rodolfo and Suelen, Family (we started teaching Suelen!), Luciana and her RM fiancé ( soon to be Couple!) ,Léci, Vitório and Fernando (Mom and two sons)
The best ones for sure are Rubens and Flavia! All of those investigors have gone to church but for now that only ones that are really progressing towards baptism are Rubens and Flavia.
But they are doing good! Satan is working hard to break them up as a family but please keep praying for them to get better!
But a cool thing happened this week! An appointment fell through so we decided to go to a different place on the other side of the neighborhood and we passed by a bar and an old investigator comes out of the bar totally drunk and had beeing taking some drugs and pulled us off to the side of the road asking for our help.
This guy is super intelligent, very wealthy and successful as well. He is studying to be a physics professor here in one of the universities and an all around good guy. I had never seen him like this before but the guy was just trashed!
He was supposed to be baptized a year ago but right before the baptism decided that he didnt want to pay ten percent tithing to the church because he is a Mason and has to pay five to them. So he wanted to pay 5 to the mason and 10 to our church. But clearly the missionaries said no so he wasnt baptized.
So we end up taking this guy home and on the walk home it was just like the films! As we are walking home and he was drunk and miserable it was like there was an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other. Some of the things he said were, "if i had been baptized i wouldnt have gone back to my addictions" and then he said "but joseph smith cant be a prophet, it doesnt make sense," then, "i should have just decided to pay tithing, i was just prideful and selfish but 10 percent is nothing" and then "there cant be only one true church!"
We brought the guy home and now he is doing better and we are going to start visiting him again but it was funny to see how he said that he knew that what he did was wrong! But he chose to not keep the commandment! And we all have to choose!
But i am running out of time! But this week was awesome and everything is going great! I lvoe you all so much, have a great week!
Elder Keller
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