1/6/2010
This could be one of these most worst things that's already happened to me
in life: Somewhere around new years eve at another missionary's house i
was rushing to get out the door. In the hurry i figured i should try and
manage to at least brush my teeth. As i went to barrow another elders tooth
paste, running in the bathroom nd then out (trying to do 10,000 things at
once) i quickly found my self running back into the bathroom to spit out
the shaving cream that i had just accidentally attempted to use as toothpaste
....YUCK, gross
You Guys been brushing your teeth?
These weeks have been crazy with all the hustle and bustle. Sorry i took
a little break last week. Figured i could sense i talked to the fam on the
phone. But let me fill you in on whats happened sense;
Cristina was married to Aldo and we baptized the entire family in one giant
spiritual event. I tihnk it was the most happiest day yet of my mission,
as well as the most stressful! First of all one of the kids took all day
to show up (as he was coming from anther part of town), the members were
ansie and anxious the entire time, Cristina tok forever getting her cake
and getting dressed, and every interview felt like it took about an hour!
But the end result was miraculas, nothing described the sight of a family
heading in the direction of eternity except for tears of joy and heart felt
smiles :-)
That's been over a week ago now and sense then i[´ve been transferred to
the ala mirante. Prolly the only ala in the world to not a have a bishop....
for 2 years running. Yep, you´d thing it was impossible but here in Brasil
we like to go against all odds. regardless tho things seem to be running
along great (elder reis was one f the last elder in this area, tá explicado)
We quickly got to know everyone (me nd my comp got in the area together)
last Thursday night at a ward activity- Volleyball! Instead of a soccer
quart this ward has a sand volley ball pit, its pretty much pure awesomeness.
However i think the coolest thing that's happened sense we´ve been here
is this rapaz we ran into that already has had all the missionary lessons
and everything, butr has never wanted or accepted baptism. Sitting down
and talking to him he started to go into details of missionaries never
truly listening to him. Its amazing how important it is to truly hear
some one out and not just hear wat you want to hear. Still at the end of
the lesson he told us tht his answer to our baptismal invite would wait
until domingo. Sitting there at church Sunday i didn´t even half ta bring
it up. In fact al i said was how are you, until he quickly responded fine
and then lowering his head and speaking in the humblest words i´ve ever
heard said, ´´ and about the baptism, yes, i really do want to baptise
myself´´. The funny part came latter when tonight (and the reason for
why i´m writing so late) he was so excited to se batizar that he confused
the appointment we marked with him for his baptism nd had invited everyone
to the church tonight to watch this baptism. Sometime this afternoon that
resulted in an worried fone call from an irma who wasn´t sure what to do
with the ppl showing up for the baptism during the middle of a primary
activity. Luckily we were ble to quickly run down o the church and take
care of things :-) (because we´re awesome)
Its truely moving to see others be moved by the spirit. This week while
teaching with another elder he ended our lesson buy burying testimony as
´´a special representative of Christ´´. Those words really hit me hard.
I have such little time left as such special representative, and i cannot
even tell you how much that means to me in so many ways. Bt one for sure-
i´m going to take all the advantage of it that i can, because i know this
Gospel is true!
Ether 12:12&18
Elder Neuberger
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