Consadao

11/25/2009

I think my favorite comment from my comp this week (out of the many) was on the 

hotest day hearing him say (in a sweety tired way)  as we walked to lunch, ´´Man 

i hope they have something hgo for us on the stove´´
 
Whats the temp like there?
  I almost had a dog bite me this week...that woulda....yep.  been bad.  But 

nothing was as funny as my comp seeing a wild turatchula for the first time in 

our sleeping room of the house.
  Regalrless of everything however i don´t think i´ve ever been this tired in my 

life.  The fact that you or i could ever fall asleep on a bus here in basil is 

just amazing, seeing as how thy take tuns out 100 kph.  I tihnk the othe night 

my comp truely hit his limit as he sat down to pray by his bed.  I kinda just 

caught a glimsp of it as i was gunna say something to him but then just decided 

to get in th shower and tell him depois.  Well ten minutes late geting out of 

the shower i found him in the same position.  At first it was just down right 

humbling and i thought how much more i could still work on my oraçoes.  But 

then as i started moving throughout the quarto i started to reliz how he 

wasn´t twitching a muscle,....hmm  could he really be that tired that he fell 

asleep on the floor like that i wondered?  Finally, tripping over a bed he 

stirred back to life, looked at me to tell me he was tired and went to bed 

instantly.  lol i loved it
  I was astonished to yet again see the power of miricales this week. 

Working in an area that is far from the chapel has been hard an this week 

the few ppl we went looking for couldn´t make it.  But we went to church 

with high hopes after having worked a very hard week and having had many 

ppl promise to go.  Sitting down in church i slowly looked around....

wait a minute, no piano this week?  huh? no microphone, why is it hot in 

here and why don´t they tun on th lights....wait a minute...NO ENERGY AH! 

and it's the Primary program...wow i can´t hear anything.  As these thoughts 

started doing threw my hea i turned to the back in times to watch a family 

we were teaching walk in.  No way one miracle.  So then i started punching 

numbers, and realized for the work we´d done th President promises 6 ppl, 

we only had three.  W/e i was satisfied, when all of a sudden i looked 

down the row to see one othe family WITH NEIGHBOS THEY`S BROUGHt sitting 

in the pew over.  a totally of 9 ppl who indured the heat an everything 

and are excited to go back.  It is impossible to describe how i feel and felt.
  I´ve come to grow more and more fond of the fact that my dad runs marathons. 

Lately i wrap it into every 3rd lesson i give.  You see enduring to the end 

comes up there and tying it into unning is excellent.  I always starting 

talking about how when were bapised its really only the stat of the race 

after all the preparation that we´re doing, cause obviously marathons 

arn[´t something we just jump into to.  So when we started we´re prepared 

we have things like ou mp3 or th holy gohst and scriptures and most 

continue to the end doing our best.  Of course as well as i can pull this 

off i don´t think it even compares to the words of our Prophet from 2007:
n July of 1976, runner Garry Bjorklund was determined to qualify for the 

U.S. Olympic team’s 10,000-meter race which would be run at the Montreal 

Olympics. Halfway through the grinding qualifying race, however, he lost 

his left shoe. What would you and I do if that were our experience? I 

suppose he could have given up and stopped. He could have blamed his bad 

luck and lost the opportunity of participating in the greatest race of 

his life, but this champion athlete did not do that. He ran on without 

his shoe. He knew that he would have to run faster than he had ever run 

in his life. He knew that his competitors now had an advantage that they 

did not have at the beginning of the race. Over that cinder track he ran, 

with one shoe on and one shoe off, finishing third and qualifying for the 

opportunity to participate in the race for the gold medal. His own running 

time was the best he had ever recorded. He put forth the effort necessary 

to achieve his goal.
  Are we doing the same?  COuld i every repeat to often that all things 

are possible?  Sunday was a testiment of this to me.  And so i witness 

to the rest of you that all things are within our reach when we do our part.
Elder Neuberger