1/21/2009
Well ad will be happy to know i´m sitting down to write and i have time and i
have my planner, so how´s everyone doing?
This week seemed to move by fast with district meetings, zone conference and
the antisapation of Elder Cook´s arrival, but we´ll get to all that.
We had a dog follow us for a good 2 miles the other day. I tohught it was
histarical. In the words of Dan Cook the thing was just doin one of those
floaty dances where he was like trying to discies the fact that he was
following us. He would lag behind us or cross the street and pretend to be
interested in something else. Then he´d cross back over and run to catch us
or even run in front of us pretending not to even notice us and check out
some trash a ways infront of us, but not to far just incase we we´re to turn
down a different street. He even left us for 10 minutes at a time going down
different roads but then BAM he´s be back. Reminded me of the dog Uncle Carl
would always talk about on his mission, actually i´m not sure who talked about
it more Uncle Carl or Grandma
Grandma would be happy to know brazil has the fine establishment of Curves,
lol, ´´oh RAY!´´
I miss being loud...a lot, btw, in case i haven´t already voiced that.
I was talking to a guy from Chile the other day (in english) and can´t wait
to visit that country. But the fun part was while talking to him he almost
got takin out by a bat. The thing sky dived like Luke Skywalker going in for
the kill with an X wing (thats for micah) Seriously is he hadn´t ducked i´m
pretty sure the bat would have stormed his face. I tihnk living in a heavily
concreted/walled in aparement building has only one advantage and thats no
bats. Their screeching woudl keep me up all night.
Here´s a question for ya,How is Brazil surviving on just 5 types of soda,
is this humanly possible. You can even get as spicific as listing name
brands in this catastrophy; Coke, Kuat, Sprite, Guarnana, and Fanta (pretty
much always orange) Done. Thats it. Game over. I´m not a huge soda drinker
myself but i do like a nice Pinnaple soda or somethin out of the ordinary
every once in a while, i mean come on- only 5? Really?
Definantly saw a chickenduck the other day. What is a chickenduck you may
ask? I have no idea, i would answer. Can chickens and ducks mate? This
animal no joke had the head of a chicken with a body that was crossed between
duck and chicken and then ended with webbed feet. Duerden was with me at the
time and we just looked at eachother...´´well thats awkward..´´ (PS Duerden
is beating me in overall ping pong standings, and yes that makes ita little
hard to sleep at night. WE NEED A FUZBALL TABLE!!! lisa adam ya with me?)
Ok one more short rant...well two. First off, if my mouth can impersonate
the same noises coming out of your motorcycle, then thats not a motorcycle
your riding. I´m sorry my friend but in the words of Elder Skowzen, ´´thats
a bike rigded to a weed wacker´´ The fact that i´m passing you on some of
these hills while i´m on feet and your on ´´a motorcycle´´ is a little,
umm how do i say...RIDONCULAS!!! Save the gas and just ride a bike, or walk.
Fun Fact: a family of five can fit on a regular sized bicycle in Brazil,
who knew. Try it at home
Lastly i absolutley miss carpet. LIke...alot. I know exaclty the patch
of carpet i miss the most in fact. And that would be the area of our family
room that touches the kitchen, NOT that fake piece of carpet that sits
behind the piano. (What is that anywayz mom, we´ve all ben playing along
with your whole ´´save the carpet´´ thing for years now, but i tihnk people
are starting to raise eyebrows, even in Brazil) But yeah, i just invision
laying with my back on that carpet, knees bent, just staring at the ceiling
while talkin to mom in the kitchen who´s cleaning dishes or somthing (sorry
that was sexest). Sigh....carpet
In more spiritual topics i tihnk one of my favorite moments so far was
walking into the house of our past baptisms this transfer giving a short
thought and then asking if they would give a prayer. Usually this question
causes some arguement or unrest but Gutënburg and the others chimed in ´´sure´´
as the pointed to the wall were the had written all the parts to prayer copied
from their Book of Mormon we were had written the same thing for them earlier.
Now anyone who walks in that house can pray.
Interesting fact the title Preach My Gospel in portuguese is Pregar Meu
Evangelho, which is a pretty straight foward translation. But did you know
that Pregar can also me to fasten or fix (as in make sturdy) I for one thought
that was neet as we are here strengthening the gospel in Brazil along with
those others throughout the world doing the same thing :-)
Our golden investigator conitues to be Golden, with some incredible faith.
Tonights ago we went over the word of wisdom with her (sadly we did not bring
any Cevada with us) and told her how ipmortant it was for her to keep it as
her baptism is set for to weeks from now and we wouldn´t weant to have to
change that. She expressed how hard his would be for her (and her mom wasn´t
much help echoing things in the background) but she siad she would certainly
try starting right then and there. We visit her tonight, and we´ll see how
things are going. She certainly knows her stuff.
Also thanks to a member we have a new investigator who happens to be this
memebers girlfriend. So we´re teaching in his house, which is great because
he lives with another member friend, both of which are planning on applying
for missions in May.
Reading DC 58:4-3 in church this week certainly spured some thought. The
words of that chapter are so powerful in the idea that we cannot at this
present time understand all the workings of our Heavenly Father. We can
certainly have faith though, the Stripling Warriors certainly did (cause the
listen to their moms...ali). I think its interesting to note Helaman calls
them his little sons when referncing them in his letter to Captain Moroni
(awesome awesome awesome man btw) He calls them his LITTLE sons twice in fact.
Its not until after the have gone to battle, after the have put their faith to
work that they are then given the title stripling. Very simaliar to the story
of Nephi, i´m sure many of us are fimiliar with, who goes from a boy to man in
the space of a few chapters at the begining of the Book of Mormon. It is so
important to understand that Heavenly Father will challenge our faith.
Mosiah 23:21-22! And its excellent becuase a trial of our faith can only
increase our faith in the assumption we choose right. How privilaged are
we! am i bragging? YES! in the exquiset love from our Heavenly Father
(Alma 26!!!)
I know this gospel is true, please pray always regardless or political
background, race or religion.
5, 4, 3... 0-yeah... (name the ending of that R&B song, i hear it all the time)
Continuing through the heat,
E Neuberger
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