The problem with him was that he is living with this girl Suelen who doesnt want anything to do with the church but they a little daughter names Lindsey who isnt even a year old. Rodolfo really wanted to get baptized but his wife didnt want to get married because getting married here is really complicated and no one believes it will last more than a few years. He has been being taught for eight months on and off and it came to the point where we had to say we cant keep coming by if there was no more progress. We told him we didnt counsel him to seperate from his wife just to be baptized but at the same time he couldnt be baptized living with her while not being married. But his prayers were answered and she agreed to get married! So in a month or two he should be getting baptized! (:
Rubens and Flavia are doing alright. They are really struggling still in their relationship but we are going over there on monday morning with a member family who are their friends and we are going to see if they can help them out.
Odair and Denise are all starting to really read the Book of Mormon now and doing good! They just need a little extra push to have everyone go to church together! Last week Odair went alone. But what is interesting is that in the beginning he was the least interested and now he is the most progressing! He is ahead in reading and understanding the best! He really wants to prove that he wants to stay with Denise and the family so that was really cool to see this past week! We are going over their tonight and they said they wanted to make a big cake and food tonight for dinner so i am pretty excited for that!
We were teaching this less active the other day and the poor guy has had a lot of trials in his life. And so he tries to say that it is just too hard and that is what is keeping him away from the church.
So the next day Elder Sierras comes up and gives me a great talk to read called "The Inconvenient Messiah" by Elder Holland as Byus president in 1982. It is on LDS.org and a really awesome talk about how it was never easy for Christ. And Elder Holland uses the examples of Christs life and then applies it to our own to show us that we are gonna have it rough at times and that is just how it is gonna be! But that is why we have the atonement! And we gotta use it!
He talks about in discipleship we cant just take the easy or "convenient" path. We always have to take the harder one just as Christ did. He gaves a few examples of when Christ could have used his Godly powers to make things easier for him but he knew that that is not how it works. Life has gotta be hard!
But anyways everything is going awesome here! I love you all and hope everything is going great! Hope you feel better Luke! Talk to you next week!
Elder Keller
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