Hello my fellow friends and family!
This week I must say was freezing! It snowed for 3
days...... it definitely was NOT Utah snow, but it was a lot of snow for
England. People here were freaking out because it snowed so much, it was pretty
funny. There was nobody on the streets; people wouldn't even talk to us at their
door because it was "Too Cold". Haha the Grocery shops were selling
out of food because people thought they would be stuck in their houses because
of the snow. People exaggerate so much over here about snow... haha I’ve had a
lot of laughs. Church was of course canceled because there was an inch of snow
on the ground and the streets were just wet. So it was really confusing to
me...... but we got by safely and tried
to stay warm. I had to wear 5 layers of clothes I was so cold and two pairs of
bball socks. The cold would just go right through all of what I was wearing. It
was good fun though.
With all of this bad cold weather, it equals bad results for
missionary work... that’s pretty much what happened this week. A lot of our
potential investigators bailed on us.... a couple of our "solid"
investigators dropped us. It was a tough week for us. Carla who I was so
excited for dropped us, I really struggled with that, because I was so
confident that she was going to be baptized. But Satan really got to her and
she doesn't want to go any further...... I was so sad. We actually saw her in
the streets while trying to contact people, and she just walked right by us not
saying anything... I actually didn’t know that was her because her lower face
was covered with jacket and hoodie... i felt so dumb that I wasn’t more
talkative to her. I would have if I knew for sure it was her. We found out
later it was her because us texted her and yeah... it didn’t go very well....
The good part of this week was that I received the
"Living Scriptures" that Mom sent me! They are so awesome! They are
just for little kids to know the scripture stories throughout the bible and
Book of Mormon, they are so awesome! We are going do a lot of family nights
with those things! Because they have games on the main menu so you can learn
more about the stories and know what the purpose is. I learn a lot from those
DVD’ s its nice going to the basics again. Elder Fingerle and I have our own
little episode night thing... you guys back at home watch episodes of the
Office, Modern family, Family Guy etc... Well we have our missionary episodes
which are the Living scriptures, so we watch on DVD before we got to bed, and
have hot chocolate. Its good fun! Haha
Missionary work right now is a bit slow... we don't have
many people progressing; we need to find a lot more people. Our finding efforts
are a lot better than they used to. I need to ask inspired questions and be
more REAL with the people and show them that I do love them and care for their
salvation. there is a lot of discouragement every now and then, but after being
rejected maybe 100 times we will find 1 person who is receptive and wants to
learn more, and when you experience that, you know it’s so worth being rejected
100 times for just that 1 person who is ready for the Gospel.
I hope everyone is doing Fantastic! I sure love and miss all
of you!
Cheers my fellow mates ;)
Love Elder Keller!
"Oh, and.... we got new mission cars. They are pretty sweet huh?!?! And fast..."
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