Dear family,
I´m so glad that the weekend all worked out. The Lord
always seems to bless our family so much! I bet it was great to relax
with the family for a few days. And dutch oven! That sounds so
delicious! Go Jordan! I bet he will love being a teacher! Wow, the TRC
is amazing. There is definitely heavenly help in all we do.
Tocopilla is beautiful! Sadly, I bet my idea of beauty has decayed a
little in my time in the dessert haha, but I really love it here. You
can see the ocean from everywhere in the town! There is still no green.
We are surrounded by giant piles of brown dirt, but the ocean is
wonderful. And the town is really `linda`. The sunsets are amazing!
:D I´ll be sure to take more pictures this week.
Elder Diaz is from Santiago. He is an amazing teacher, and I can tell he truly loves the people here.
I
just read that Jessica is engaged!!!! :D :D :D That is so exciting!
When is the wedding? I feel weird and nervous that I haven´t met him.
But everything I have heard tells me he is awesome. So I´m happy for you
both! :D
Yesterday church was super good. I love testimony meeting! And then
for Sunday school the class was really good. We talked about the roles
of each person in the family. It amazes me how members of the church are
able to have such big families. People here have two kids and seem to
have the hardest time. But in the church, like our family, 8 kids! The
gospel is amazing and truly our loving Heavenly Father knows exactly how
to help us keep our big families together and happy.
We had a zone conference last Friday. We are
doing another competition in the mission like the March madness things,
but with the Olymipics. We spent about 30 minutes of everyone just
asking what counts and doesn´t count, number wise. But at one point
President Bruce got up in the back of the room and shared 1 Corinthians
about 10:19, or something close to that, that says ´when I was a child I
spoke as a child and thought as a child. But when I became a man I put
away childish things.´ He said we all know what we should be doing as
missionaries. We all know what really helps people and what doesn´t. We
should not focus on little things and opinions so much that it takes our
focus away from what is truly important. With this little competition,
it is just to help us work even harder and smarter. We are here in the
mission to help people. To save souls. To bring happiness into their
lives.
I love this mission, and I love the people. All of Alice´s family is just
amazing. The grandma especially. She can barely see or move, but she
goes to church every Sunday and loves the gospel already. She is
probably the most awesome lady. Her daughter Juana is going to be
baptized this Saturday. She has been waiting a couple months, but
finally decided that she really does know the church is true. They all
tell me that their whole extended family has been so much happier the
last few months!
Alice is such an amazing missionary. She comes with us to many lessons,
not just with her family. And she just always seems to know what to say.
She follows the Spirit. Something the teacher in Sunday school said is
that generally men are harder and don´t express themselves, but women
are very good at just saying what they feel. I can´t imagine how good
sister missionaries must all be.
Thank you for your prayers! I definitely feel them! I have been so blessed and love helping others every day.
Love,
Elder Keele
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