E' Nageno!!!!!!!

8/2/2010

omg i just spent all to much time fallowing groen men around ust shopping all day...i want to kill myself.  Well now the time is short so lets see wat i can fit in here...

 

hate shoping...

  FOund out last week that a family i taught in Siqueira was baptized, awesomeness.  Its so cool tó see planted seeds already come forth.  Everyone said it was quite sporotual and some even dried.  Whitehead had a bday party this past week in other news which ment cheesecake if you can believe that!...i couldn´t

  iPresidente didn´t let us go on a 9 iland boat tour.....sad days

  All LD LZ and treiners had  trainings from 9 to 5 this week like all week, ridicuals

  AND WE GOT TO GIVE OUR LEAVING TESTIMONIES which was awesome.  I had to look away from lima everytime to avoid crying.  It interesting how its all most impossible.  Truely these past few months and years have made an incredible difference on my life.  Anyways we´ve gotta head to teach Ginildo and hos family, who (with your prayeres) will be baptised this weekend, /9he´s almost in alma in the bom).  Many  other things have been going on but i´m kinda outa time.  I guess i´ll save them for when i get home anyways, thought to be honest that hasn´even really snk in yet.  ON TO THE WEEK OF ALL OR NOTHING, BRING IT ON

7/26/10

  ´´Dwn´t sweat the petty things......

 

                                              ........and don´t pet the sweaty things´´

-warm words of advise from a prefired comp of mine :-)

 

And how ya´lls be?

  Here we are doing solid.  Last week i totally didn´t get a chance to tell you (cause i forgot) but omg i ran like flat out from a good 15 minutes trying to catch atrain wihich i then watch past before my eyes as a arrived on the plate form.  It was pretty aniticlamatic.  BUT mom would be super impressed with my motivation in getting everyone into the WOrlds Fair and Nations event the had here last week.  Elder olson ended up buying a pancho from peru and i bought some amazing hot coco from .......germany...i tihnk.  Anyways it was a culture BLAST!!!!

  Returuning to the running subject totally ran from Colina to Farol this week, thats a totall of 50 minutes of running my boys.  And let me tell you, ...it was easy.  Best part was we ran to the blood drivewhic pres had told us to attend.  There i then had a STRAW SIZED needle stuck into me, like wow way for sure bigger than the states but thats alright because its all fora good cause right....?

  ANyways today was awesomely productive as well aka played some exhausting futebol with the boys- only the best.

On a more spiritual note this week was amazing in bring families unto our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  First is a great lovely couple with one filha.  As we´re teaching them throughout the week i come to find out that he works with a member that lived in Antares.  And i totally rerember this memeber and i totally remember how he had being ´´preparing ´´ this man for a reference (so that it was for our area in the epoica).  Its great to see how every LDS is truely an example and thanks to the great one that this member has set this investigators confivdence is already that much hire.  The intire family was able to go to church as well :-)

  Then theres another family....there awesome, thats all i got.  AND then...then there´s Luciano, who is super curioso!  And its great any question is always better than no question at all, and trust me, he has um.  The best however was as i taught the first vision and came to the end saying ´´His rapaz had the oputunity to ask personaly Jesus and Deus.´´  His jaw just dropped like a rock literally.  It was almost funny honestly.  The man was littlerally on the end of his seat and best of all was the member that we had brought who couldn´t have been more supportive or involved.  Thats the kinda member i wanna be wen i get home.  An example, a luz an idea of change to all those who are willing and wanting to seek it.

  I´m so excited to see these families progress towards baptise, one this week already.  I know that none of this is through my power but through the guinadce of the Holy Ghost and will of the Senhor.  Live your life!  but in aconcordance with Heavenly Fathers Plan,

ELder neuberger

E a Negano

7/21/10
So few things to say really, but lots to do como sempre.  Now with elder oslon in Colina and we´re aboutready to tear it up. Hope my sons doing well showing his new brazy comp around :-)

E TU?!?!
  My favoritist thing ever this week /9kinda/0 was my son´s two one liners.  The first being (remembering that he was sick)  ´´Man i just wanna go home....that´s what a sister would say, i just want baptise!´´ then after a thousand members telling me i couldn´t work my sick comp so hard i finally turned to him nd was like do you realize the members think i´m abusing you? Answer ´´Just tell um i´m sock from being in the pia all transfer´´  SOLID!!!!
  NOw we´re gunna see if we can baptize 3 families here in Colina, one per week!  Quinta was super especial however with the baptism of Silvana and her family.  However we were a little disappointed that Emily our other baptism hand´t been able to show up do to some family problem.  As we started to sing the last hymn, who else appears other than A EMILY!!!  STOP EVERYTHING and keep singing, grabbed her clothes got her changed and smiled my face of as i watched her enter the water of baptism.  One of the most happeist moments ever.  Latter found out tha depsite tudo she had walked from her house to the church sozinha just to get baptized!!
  Sunday morning i was then joking around with my comp about how missionaries here usually get rappedup into doing everything, litle did i know right before sacrament meeting i would be asked to give a 10 minute talk.  Well it all went great and as we stood to sing /9by chance) called to serve the tear quickly came.  The L.O. then destroyed in an all out talked about being bold and talking with everyone you know about the gospel.]
  I hope and pray that i can always continue with this mesmo desire to help all men kind know the truthfullness of the gospel.  Never be afiard or too shy to share the most cuved did priced position on this planet.  It was meant to be shared.  I know for that reason that Christ lives and Loves us.

D+C 8:2
E Neuberger

E' Nois

7/14/13
Meu filho, o shoot, English.  So my son, we decided, does about three things:  Eat, sleep and use the bathroom.  Thats alright tho, because he´s awesome and we´re consegindo fazer all the three coisas that i most love in the mean time: Exrecise, teach and baptize.

 

And how are ya´´all,

  Well guess no one decided to tell me that the baptismal font hadn´t been emptied sense the last baptism and as we got everything set up Thursday and opened the doors you can only imagine the surprise to see a giant worm/millipede thingy crawling around the bottom of the font.  Luckily i´m awesome, lol, and killed it and my comp fished it out in his baptisaml clothes :-)

  Everything went super smooth after that and Ana Kelly and Giullynny (Betovem a recent comveert of mine´s sister)  came out smiling more than ever.  Naturally integration went over well right after too.

  Sunday then came around and Rosana was baptized after church.  That was an excellent ward builder as she asked one of the members to baptise her.  This week i look forward to Silvania´s baptize junto with her daughter as well as others.

  As i continue to read the Book of Mormon i realize more and more the importance of have heart of ´´clay´´.  we must always accept the Lord´s will and not our own.  As we let him mold our heart he will construct it we will find and grow to understand the things we were mising.  Things we didn´t even realize.  He is the one who will cast our heart, making them tolerable to the potential damage the world will try to through at us.

  I saw the difference in Silvania eyes yesterday as she started participating in the lesson in a different way, and told us how she tells her friends of the importance the church has gained in her life over these past few weeks.  She´s accepted there, and understands the needs for such blessings.  Café was hard to let go, but o so worth it.

  Be that example that she now is.

 

Moroni 9:6

E Neuberger

A Assombra

7/7/13
WE HAVE A TURTLE!!!! but its huge, however when its a little bigger than the ones that use to walk (or still do) our house at home, like three times the size.  Which....makes for a little more clean up, lol.

 

How´s everyone else s pets?

  The whole story on that is actually that we moved this week and now in our new house we share a yard with a member who has a turtle that just happens to love crawling in to our house sneakily, lol.  Its pretty great, though i don´t have a clueas to how he gets in, sneaky little devil!

  Moves are never fun in Brasil, i reaffirmed that the other day.  Worse was the fact that we were a little dead after having had our ward party the night before.  However i was thankful at how well that went.  Almost all of our pesquisadores went and had a great time!!!  There was food ad dancing and activities for the younger ones.  Our single mother we took half an excellent tie with her children and the other were also able to truly mingle with the members.  I don´t think i had to worry about a single one the entire time :-) q benção

 Sunday we gave the entire ward a training on the Book of Mormon.  my son blew me out of the water with his portuguese, and natually everything went really well.  I was even able to include the ward missionaries and had the m give a little part.  Trough out it all we wanted it to be clear that both the BoM and Bible are equally important, but it is the BoM that makes our church stand out.  Be from the STL, i played the arch card and showed everyone how the arch must have the key stone (science center anyone?).  Every christian church believes in the Bible but with the BoM we have a stronger testimony of Jesus Christ, a certainty of the truthfulness of Joesph Smith´s ministry and a proof that the Church is true.  Most important thought is not that we want any one to believe in our words, but we make the invitation for them to pray to know for themselves!

  My testomony of al this was reafirmed as i watched the miricales of fasting accure this sunday.  to new investigators in church and the best of all being the after sacrament meeting on came up to me with a member, ´´Umm....So she´s decided she wants to be baptised, you think you could arragne that?´´

 

pshh you think anything would give me greater pleasure?

  District meeting was then great.  I´ve never been abel to include everyone in a training as well as we were able to yesterday.  Every one was participating and soon we had it turned into an open discussion about how we can better work?  I had it established around the attributes we look to use in A Finding ppl and making contacts and B the difference between that an the attributes used in Following up with ppl th prorgess.  For me courage becomes everything always!  Enver fear for the Lord is on your side when you give your all!!!

 

CORAGEM!

 

E Neuberger

 

PS went to the city park today with all the gang, hiked ad saw monkey sand alligators!!! cool stuff

Nao Vou Mentir

6/26/13
Paintball-day this morning!!!!

How´s life back home?  Tel ya what this computer is hating my English, happens to think i´m spelling every word wrong....wait, maybe i am.....

  Anyways hate to say it but i left my planner at home today and truthfully can´t think of to many things thast happened this week.  HOWEVER!!!!!  the bestest thing ever did happen, something i´d been hoping would happen for a week now.  You see with all the flooding my small cities have truly benn taken out,,,completely!!!!  Well id been hoping qwe´dd get to conference last week and president would tel us thanks for coming but i´d like you to go home and change your clothes elders so week can help out with the wreckage.

  Well that's not quite the way it went down but you can only image how happy i was when Sunday i get  a call the were going to be spending all Monday at Branquinha!!!  We spent all day there cleaning just mud after mud from every corner of a school.  IT WAS CRAZY walls had falin is and just everything was ruined.  Then we hauled in food and cleaned the chairs in the river,,,,(which was a kinda schadulas for an elder)

  ALSO THIS SUNDAY WAS SPECTACULAR, earlier this transfer i made a goal with the ward to increase the frequency from 60 to at least 80 by the end of july.  Well this sunday after a ruff morning of not finding to many ppl at home or awake to bring to church we finally past in our last house and were able to bring a family (mom and two kids) to church,  Then upon getting there we started to see many inactive ppl we´ve been working with.  It was incredible.  Soon after acabou i quickly went to pull the number.....

.....81!!!!!!

I am so tired but the work of the Lord must go on.  Ward activity tonight, baptist lá pra final da semana, and just power housing every day- that´s how we keep it real!!

ELder Neuberger!!!

sempre tirando um futebol maroto‏

6/23/13

OMG i am tired.  Nossa vc é doido!  Stayed up talkin till like 3 last night then went to play soccer from 7 until noon....i just wanna pass out, but first, i halfta tell ya about my awesome week

 

How about you guys are aproveiting your summer?

  This week was Show de Bola as we say here.  Absultley rockin.  Lets start from were we last left off, o yeah TONS OF RAIN!!!  and tons of meeting with the ward and structurizing, e feel at some times almost oblidaged to remind my comp that he doesn´t make part of the bispado after all the meeting we attend to get things off the ground here . But i gotta admit I love it!

  So getting back to the rain, it was rather hard to work occasionally through out the week, but nothing, NOTHING was harder than getting ppl to churh when we found out that it had flooded over em baixo completely and that you had to take a canoe across just to cross from one end of the anveneu to the other.  In fact church was actually canceled and those that went were combined with the othe ward.  (total of 23 members from our ward)  Well i can´t say the canoe ride wasn´t fun but the absence of investigators was a little depressing.  Zeroing in the chapel is one thing i refuse to do ever!  And that's when it happened.  A girl we[ve been teaching (nise of a member) showed up with her aunt.  I later found out that they hadn´t had money to cross by canoe (one real) and had given a walk all the way around to the middle of nowhere and back just to get to church.  She truly new the importance of her baptism that we had marked for that same day after church.  It was combined with a ward baptism (the ward didn´t actualy know that ward baptized existed, but had thought it was all mission baptisms, lol) which we´d conveniently kind of planned anyways.

  So that was that, then yesterday Pres Elis was here from the area authority and gave our conf.  POWER!!! There were some points that i wish he´d amplified mais but of course then again who am i to correct him, lol.  He talked alot about how the system woks, our connection with Heavenly Father through the Holy Spirit.  At one point he looked at me and ask where i was working, ´Mirante´´ and how´s mirante elder.

  ´´Its the best area im the mission sir´i said.  He then tirou uma onda com Beynon and asked him why he´d given me the best area.  It was pretty funny but the important part was then how he worked it into the fact that the Lord has prepared this area for me.  DC 107:108 (i think) then rang loud about leaving being lazy and getting to work.  And im all about that!!!

  HOw ever my favorite part (and yes i´m a little biast) was pres Beynon.  He talked about Having a change of heart and compared it to a sail boat and how like our heart the sails must be full of something to work.  It was gorgeous and someday ill mostrar all the scriptures he gave.  I would then just add how like the spirit the wind is not something we see, but that we feel!  We must first show our faith and put up our sails believing in something we can´t see but that we feel.  And the Lord takes the rest.  We must be his hands, we must do the fizical work.  But He will always make up the difference and help us to the end.....if.....we have a true change of heart!

  I love this work, wat more can i say :-)  guess i could add my son is awesome and that i played some mad soccer today (cuzamento sou eu!)

 

Mateus 17:20

Elder Neuberger