This next transfer moore and saenz will be training new secretaries so we will be in a house with 8 missionaries! Its gonna be awesome!
I am pretty sad to leave all of our awesome investigators but it is always good to start fresh. We are going to start from scratch now. We have 0 investigators haha. We moved on thursday and have been fixing the house up since then. Tonight we are going to go and find. But we saw rubens in the market that he works at. he works right by the office so we will be able to see him soon.
Larsen and Gomez will be the only missionaries in the Saco dos Limões now. But they are good guys and i trust them!
But we have been studying this training that all the missionaries in the world received in January. President printed a bunch of little booklets of the training and they are super good!
We have been studying Elder Bednars training lately and it is awesome. It is about the role of the Spirit in conversion. And ya know a lot of us say that we trust in the spirit to convert someone and touch the investigators hearts but if we really stop to think about what it means i think our confidence in that changes a little bit.
When we teach we sometimes think that our words will do something, or help someone understand better. We sometimes think that if we can present all the information to the student in a perfect manner then they will feel the spirit and want to get baptized. But that is all wrong!
If we trust in the spirit we would understand that our words dont make a difference.
For a while in the mission we have had the 20 minutes rule. Get in, teach a principle, leave the spirit and get out. When Zwick came to the mission he heard about the rule and said, "10 minutes is even better" haha.
but what i do a lot is i think that i have to use my words to explain things to people. Clearly the missionaries have a crucial role but the spirit is the teacher and we really forgot that a lot.
Zwick talked about Simplifying and part of that is less words. The spirit will confirm the truth to people.
Another key point is that we are here to invite, not to convince. We cant force these people to believe. One thing i want to do better is find the elect. Moore found a non-married couple with a kid and they got married and baptized in 2 months! That is super fast! It takes a month to get married here because of the legal process. So in a month they were completely ready to get baptized. They just accepted everything.
That is the difference between inviting and convincing. When Christ invited the young rich man he didnt stay there for a few more days trying to convince him to leave everything. He left the invite and said follow me and i will promise you everything. The man didnt want it so Christ left.
Sometimes as missionaries we get emotionally attached to people and dont want to leave them behind even though they arent fully accepting things when we could be out finding people that really do want it. The Elect will recognize the voice. So we have to be simply inviters and conductors of the spirit.
But it is really an amazing opportunity to learn how the spirit works with you on a mission. Ever since I have been trying to write down a spiritual experience once a day in my journal it has really changed my view on how the spirit works with us and talks to us. And I love that moment when you realize that you followed the spirit and something good came of it.
Like yesterday I was with Elder Mendes when we were moving, he is a new secretary here and is awesome! I had a nagging feeling like i had to ask him what i could do better out here on the mission. I love asking people that but last night for some reason it was really hard. At the end when we were walking back to the house i asked him and I was super surprised because he gave me a huge answer to a question i have had for a while!
It was one of those awesome moments when it paid off to follow the Spirit.
But I hope everyone is doing awesome! Congrats on teh boston marathon dad!
Family i love you guys so much! have an awesome week!
Elder Keller
Family Letter: some big news this week! we are in the new house! it is awesome! It is on the same street as the office, litterally about 6 houses up from the office on the same street. we moved in 2 days ago! So awesome! The next transfer is going to be sweet because we will be living in 8! haha Elder Keller
also President took out all the field assistants so we are back to just two. I dont know exactly what will be happening or how it will work yet. President said for zone conferences we will travel with him right now which will be super sweet! but conferences arent until june. but really cool!
also thank you guys so much for the box! i didnt thank you enough last week! it was so awesome! i loved everything that came, yeah i got the garments and the husky socks were totally awesome!!!!! those things are sweet! new p day socks haha! and the nerf basketball is sweet! now that we are in a house and not an apartment we can mess around more. in apartments you cant make any noise!
i will try to take pictures of the place. we are in the middle of the move so it is still super messy and disorganized but really awesome!
But i saw really quickly in the subject title that you guys are back to fairview! that is sweet! i was thinking that we couldnt be out of fairview! but so awesome that we are back!
but i love you guys so much! gonna go write the general and read the rest!
p.s. skype we will have an hour and will be just like last time. we will skype from the office so it should be pretty easy to set up the call.
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