Sports, Sacrament Talk & Temptation!

Hello Everyone!!

     So this week was kinda crazy!  Last p-day we were actually able to play soccer! We played with some english guys and they kicked butt..I thought i was good until i played with these guys. After, we played soccer we decided to play basketball....hahaha yes... so when we played basketball it was the other way around.. i kicked there butt :) it was really fun!

     The next day we had a full day planned and there was an emergency. We needed to go pick up a member that moved down here from Northern England. We picked up this guy named Amine from another member in our ward. He was from Iran. we had to pick him up and help him get a job and get him some food and all of his stuff, so pretty much we babysat him the whole day. We got to know him and as I said he was from Iran, so i had a lot of questions for him.. so long story short about Amine-He was a writer back at home, he was engaged, not a member of our church yet, and lived in a big house. the book he was writing was about muslems, and what they do.. the muslems did not like what he was writing, so they have been trying to kill him. he has been chased around in Iran for a while and hes almost been kidnaped several different times. So one day he just ran north, left everything behind him, because he was being hunted and would be killed if they ever see him. So he lives in England, ran into some missionaraies  5 months ago and was baptized. He loves the Gospel and he said it has saved his life. He's a wonderful lad. He's 28 years old and is homeless and now is living with the Halls, a wonderful couple in our ward. And hes doing great. I feel so bad for him though.. but somehow he smiles more than you think he would. Crazy!!! I was all scared while we were with him that whole day, i was afraid we were going to get shot or something..

      Anyways...We had a conference for all of the district and zone leaders up by the Temple... yeah for us it was a 7 hour drive.. I'm still car sick, we were gone for about 3 days. we slept over in other Elder's flats and had a blast talking all night and laughing our heads off! the conference was wonderful! I learned a lot about leadership skills! Heck yes I'll be the next AP!! haha just playin.. but it was great! Elder Jenson of the seventy came and spoke for a couple hours.. it was so long and actually hot! It's finally summer here! He gave us great advice, but i cant really remember anything specific that he said right now to tell you.. but it was great once again and I took notes! He was a scary man though.. but also wonderful! :)

    Yesterday was Sunday! On friday night the bishop called and asked me to give a talk.. I was freakin out cause i didnt know what to do, he said i could talk about anything I wanted! I calmed down and remembered that I have my farewell talk with me to help me out a little :) so that was easy, ha ha I did mix it up a lot! I added a lot more in the talk and I did not read word for word. If you guys do not remember what my talk was about it was about the Atonement.. haha i shared my basktball shorts story on how i lost the shorts and I prayed and my prayer was answered instantly. haha it was great! The Stake Pres. was there.. so no pressure for me.. after my meeting the Stake Pres. jumped up and gave me a hug and told me how well i did, as well as my Bishop. He said the talk was beautiful, ha ha. So a lot of people in the ward told me how well i did, so i felt really really good. Until one brotheren came up to me and said "one day you'll know how to give a talk elder, one day you will.." haha that was sad for me, but still one after another came up to me and told me how well i did, even a couple of ladies gave me a hug, they just told me how much they love me, it was wonderful. Oh and in my testimony i just expressed a lot of love I have for our ward, so I think thats why i got the hugs. haha i know we arent supposed to hug...the ladies even knew that, but they did anyways.. haha that evening my zone leader called me and said "keller! i heard you gave a wonderful talk!" I said how did you know I gave a talk? and he said "the stake pres called me and the first thing he said was that elder keller gave a wonderful talk" and also that I am a powerful missionary, and some othere wonderful comments. This really made me feel so great because I've been lacking confidence in myself and that day with all of those nice comments really helped me! :)

 

One more quick story...We were just starting our jouney home from the Temple area. I was driving with Elder Carter (the zone leader) and we were at a red light and elder carter said "keller do not look behind us" so I didn't. And next thing you know, a car pulls  up right next to us and it was a car full of girls. They were the hottest girls I've seen since ive left home.. hahaha they were kinda immodest.. but their faces were actually cute. For once I've seen a cute girl in England!! haha so i looked over at them and smiled and they rolled down their window and tried talking to us...So Elder Carter told me to give them a pass along card, haha I was like no problem! I pulled out a card and right when i opened the door elder Carter floored it and drove away from them yelling "TEMPTAION TEMPTATION TEMPTAION!!" HAHAHA  it was so so funny!! Then soon enough we were at another red light and they were next to us again and they were trying to get our attention, but i was thinking of my mission instead.... :) Ya know me! ;) hahaha.

 

Anyways I love you all so much! I miss you guys like crazy and I hope all is well back at home! Cheers! :)

The Olympic Torch visited Helston, England!

Ello mates!

              So this week was up and down i must say.. Down, because all we did was knocking pretty much.. and it got really old really fast.. But it was fun in a lot of ways. Up, because we have a couple new investigators, Elizabeth, Harry and Jaquee. We got these investigators by knocking so it was worth it. We taught them all the first lesson and they are pretty interested! So its great! With John.. We visited 2 days ago and we got chatting and we asked how his addictions were, and he said not very well.. He said he bought another magazine... I smiled and said, "John... do you have another black rubbish bag?" haha. He looked at me and said, "yeessssss......." and slowly got up and grabbed a bag, went in his room and came back in the living room and gave me the bag with a couple magazines in it.. haha I thought that was awesome how he just got straight up and gave up his bad magazines right away. haha it was great! He really does want to change and this last appointment with him went really well, so we are extending a date for him to be baptized on the 17th of june. Here, they get baptized on sundays.. i think its because a lot of people would be there to watch i guess.. but yeah, John is great! We also are making a calendar for him so it will help him quit smoking, the smoking calendar is limiting a few cigarettes a day for him. So he just needs to follow the calendar that we are making him.. ha ha.

              Saturday the olympic torch came through the promise land of Helston, baby!! it was so cool! There was so many people in the streets that morning! We sat around waiting for the parade for about 2 hours.. we ran into some Swiss people so my companion talked to them for a while, while i was just standing  there awkwardly.. anyways there was a bus that came driving by and dropped off an Olympian lady, she was all by herself with the golden torch, we then realized that she was waiting for the other torch that was lit and they were going to pass the flame to her, so we were in the right place at the right time! So i got a few pictures of that! Before the flame came i was about to take a picture with the lady holdind the torch, i was so close from getting a picture with her, but right when i was asking her the other flame was coming up the street so we couldnt.. i was so mad!! That would have been in the front page of the Ensign, I know it would have! A missionary holding an olympic tourch with one of the athletes next to me. Oh man that would have been cool, but i failed.. anyways that day was really fun! i have a ton of pictures of that day but they won't send.. so I'll send them all to mom or dad or steph and they will have to resend them to all of you alright? I also sent dad a video from my itouch of the torch, so ask him to send that to you.

            That saturday we did some service for some other investigators, we cut down trees and had a huge fire! it was crazy! It took so long to get the fire started, but my Swiss companion somehow got it started after a while of trying. I was trying to feed the fire to keep it going you know, and i got too close and burnt myself.. haha it was funny tho, and i also realized that i burnt my favorite t-shirt I was wearing, and it also burnt my garments... so... this is awkward... i also took a picture of that, so ask steph for the pictures.

Anyways I love all of you so much! I think about you all everyday even though i shouldn't.. But I'm still a greeny missionary they like to say.. but I'm having a lot of fun! Cheers Mates!

Mother's Day Skype Week...May 14th Letter!

This was my Mom's "Favorite Mother's Day!" Nothing better than getting to skype with your Missionary! It was so great to see his smiling face & to personally get to see & talk with him for a little over an hour. We also got to meet his companion! Jax is showing us his calendar book with "SKYPE" scheduled in on Sunday, May 13th! 

Pictures & Letters from Elder Keller the day after Mother's Day!

Ello!

        Yesterday was awesome as we all know because it was Mother's Day!! I was able to see you guys obvioulsy and it was so fun to see all of you! all of the grandchildren are already changing.. haha its going to be crazy when i get home and see all of them and see how much they've changed.. as well as additions in the fam! I hope Mom had a wonderful Mother's Day! I love her so much!

       This week was really cool! it actually went by pretty fast.. which is odd, cause days never go by fast. haha but we had a lot of fun because we actually stayed busy and had a lot of appointments all lined up. so its always fun when you have people to see rather then just knocking all day. we had a ton of dinner appointments with a whole bunch of members, which is awesome because its amazing food, and not so awesome because i eat so much and im getting FAT as i told all of you yesterday.. and you also saw that i was getting fat.. so thats no good... we had a D.A. with the Halls, and the pictures i sent you with me my companion and the darker skinned guy, yeah hes brother Hall, and we are in his backyard (garden).. it was incredible. It just happened to be a really sunny warm day for once when we were able to see the ocean. earlier that day we had some lunch with 2 recent converts, one of them was less active but were working on him, but we ate lunch with them in Penzance on the beach that sunny day. It was awesome just chillin on the beach in England with no rain or wind, it felt really nice. And of course we ate a fattening lunch.. KFC... so yeah i just got even fatter just by thinking of that..

       The other picture is of me and elder Tomilson. We were on exchange that day so we thought it was funny to take a picture on a bench looking out into the ocean once again. That part of the ocean was on the opposite side of the Halls beach, so we see the ocean a lot, it seems like were on a smaller island..but its awesome!

Anyways.. that was pretty much my week.. i sure love and miss all of you guys! It was so awesome to see all of you yesterday on Moms special day!! I LOVE ALL OF YOU!!!!!! Cheers Mates! :)

Here is a "LEGIT London Mini Cooper!" Jax said he thinks of me every 5 minutes because he see's a Mini ever 5 minutes, ha ha. These are definitely the official London mini coops! 

Another Week Down!

                    In this picture, Jaxon & his companion walked through this cemetery, and it reminded him of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," so he pulled a Thriller dance move, ha ha. 

Hey Mates!!


This week was a little crazy!! all this week we had pretty much zero success.. we knocked on so many doors.. my legs are killing me.. haha! the only investigators we had were phil and vilna as i have told you before, and we were about to go visit them, so we called to make sure it was okay for us to come over to their house and teach them. Vilna picked up the phone and sounded really angry for some reason.. which she never is angry. She's always really really nice and happy.. so she told us its not a good idea for us to come over because phil and vilna are going through a separation.... i was so upset because they were the coolest people ever.. they said to call them in a few weeks to see how things are going and hopefully theyll figure everything out.. i was so sad because i looked forward to visiting them every monday night.....

the last few days have been wonderful because the sun decided to do its job and make me warm and happy.. haha i realized when the sun is out and we actually see the blue sky that people are a lot happier and smiley, we went knocking on a sunny day and everyone that spoke to us was really nice, they didnt want to hear our message but they actually wanted to get to know us, which was rare because people here are really careless usually. a couple days ago when it was sunny again we were walking up to this house, and while we were walking up to the door we heard the tv, it was really loud and it was obvious that it was a football match going on. i knocked on the door and it was this trashier looking man smoking a fag :) (cigarette). he opened the door and opened his eyes really wide and smiled and said "aw, you know where im at lads! its the chelsea & liverpool match!" i laughed and said oh who's winning, and he said who do you think..? like i was stupid.. haha and i just said chelsea?? and he said youre right on mate!! and we laughed and i said go chelsea and he was really happy that he thought i was a chelsea fan.. even though i like man U! I'd get shot out here if people knew i liked manchester united.. haha but we left his home by me giving him a card and he was really happy we talked to him. after we knocked on his neighbors door they didnt answer, as soon as we were walking away from the door that chesea fan guy opened his door again and yelled at me and said im so sorry mate, i didnt mean to be rude mate, and he asked us if we would want to watch the game with him. i was like HECK YES!!!! and my companion was like no........ ugh.. it could have been a great excuse to watch a football match cause we would have watched it with an "investigator present".. haha but its  okay.. it was fun though!! 

Yesterday we were just knocking again, and we got a call from an elder in out district elder johnson, he had a referral for us. the referral happened to be in the area we were just in, in that very moment, elder johnson met this guy at a bus stop, he wanted to be taught again, he was once taught  by missionaries a year ago and it just fell apart. but anyways he wanted to be taught again, so Elder Romer and i called this guy, his name is John, he wanted us to go over to his house right away, we do so. when we sat down in his living room we started talking to him just to get to know him and stuff. he told us that him and his mom got in a car accident that morning and his mom had to be rushed to the hospital, she turned out to be okay, just a bump on the head and some bruises. he said he couldnt believe that she didnt have serious injuries because the car was completely crushed on her side. thats what made him want to be taught by the missionaries again, thats what made him believe in God again. i told him that the Lord was watching out for him and his mother, and there is a reason why we are here with you today. he got a little emotional and said yes i know. im happy you guys are here. he told us he wants to change his life around, he had many addictions, drugs, pornography etc... once that was brought up he asked me if i had a garbage bag.. i said no.. why?.. and he said "oh i wanted you to take all my porn away from me, i wanted you guys to throw it all away for me." haha i was like yeah... and the subject changed. we watched a book of mormon dvd with him, we all felt the spirit, john really wanted to change and be baptized, he said a year ago he was taught all the lessons and he just wanted to be baptized as soon as possible, he knew he had to change his life before baptism, and thats what he's doing rIght now! we prayed with him and shared some scriptures with him, and he said he'll read the book of mormon everyday and pray before and after he reads. that was my advice to him to help him understand the book of mormon. hes a committed guy! we were about to leave his home and i remembered what he said about taking his magazines away.. i asked him if he had a garbage bag, he said yes..... so i said do you want us to take away your magazines?.. he said yes. he grabbed a big black garbage bag and went in his room and put all the stuff in it and gave it to me. it was like 10 pounds of magazines.. haha dont worry i didnt see anything that was in the bag. but that was a big step for john! i told him if he's ever tempted to look at porn, that he should watch the book of mormon dvd that i gave him. i put it right on his keyboard. :) haha he said he would do that! so we'll see him on wednesday at 4:00! :) it was awesome! and to end the day we threw the SATIN BLACK BAG IN A TESCOS RUBBISH CAN!! it was sweet!

I love and miss all of you guys so much! yesterday at church we had a ton of primary kids, most of them were our nephew and nieces age. it really made me want to cry cause i miss my NEPHEWS AND NIECES!! :( but all is well!

I LOVE YOU GUYS AGAIN!! i gotta go build the kingdom! hear from you next monday!

Jaxon cutting his Companion's hair! This is his first time cutting any one's hair, so he HAD to document it. And what is that? Saran wrap around him? Ha ha I'll have to ask him next week :) 

3rd Letter From Elder Keller!

hello everyone!

sorry i didnt email on monday.. we drove 6 hours up to Staines.. its pretty much in London. im still car sick.. holy cow.. so this last week in a half we have been doing the same things pretty much.. its still freezing cold here, except today was the first time the sun was actually out! it was very nice! but hardley anyone listens to us.. we have 3 progessing investigators, they are such awesome people! Phil Vilna and Wayn. wonderful people, so pray for then that they will be baptized! this last monday we went to this huge castle on a tiny island! it was the coolest thing! im totally taking my family there some day! when the current is low you can walk out to the island, they build a rock walk way out there it was awesome! its like a half a mile long. i took a million pictures of it! we had a guy in out ward Brother Topham take us on a tour through the castle, he worked on that island for 17 years, then got converted to the church and got fired from that job cause he was talking about our church to other people too much.. haha oh hes awesome! so we got in the castle for free becasue of him! and he told us all about it! all i can really say is that it was built in the 1700s... it was so big i couldnt believe how they could build such a thing that long ago.. while we were going through the castle they had there own chapel (the church of England). i thought it would be funny to get out my book of mormon and hold it and get a picture in the chapel. haha i thought it was funny. :)

ive been driving a lot! its been really weird because of course we are driving on the left side of the road, so im gettin my British lisence baby! england has been great! the only thing that could be better is the weather.. but im havin a lot of fun! its really beautiful out here! they have these things called pasties, and i bought a humungous one and i only ate like a quarter of it.. im just throwing out random stories cause i have no time! haha i buzzed my head 2 days ago and i look like a tool..  so im not gonna do that again.. im always starving! i honestly think ive gained at least 15 pounds.. haha cause we never work out either.. no time.. but anyways guys.. i sure love you all! next time when ill actually have enough time to give you all details.. so sorry if this email didnt make any sence.. love you!! the church is true!! gotta go try build the kingdom! cheers! :)