Merh . . .

Bem...another day, another transfer.....a new companion, a new house...another 

area, another disrtict....a new zone, a new city....A NEW STATE!!! YA POIS!!! lol
 
Hey everyone, how goes it? Todos coisas estam boas?
  Here in the beautiful state of Sergiepe i happen to be melting my skin off, 

and loving life.  I now have three different companions under my belt and 3 

different zones, which just so happens to be more zones than my new companion 

who´s been out a year as well as the same amount of areas.
  But to go in cronilogical order we need to back track to the start of the 

week with ...no other than elder duerden.  DIVISION!!! Sexta-Fera nos worked 

together all day which was a little harder than last time.  For starts we had 

lunch at a memebers house this time.  And it was at our bishops house, where 

i´d only been one other time before so... needless to say our legs were a 

little shacky at first.  We had no idea which floor it was on and actually 

ended up knocking on the wrong floor initiailly, but then found it.  To our 

surprise, (maybe luck? no no blessing) there wasn´t a single dul moment 

throughout lunch.  We were able to keep the conversation going the entire 

time, no problems and of course gave a message (but that was a *snap* ;-) 

Afterwards we had previously decided to promptly start tracting just in the 

area around the bishoips house to save time.  As we did so we split up every 

other door to cover more ground and eventually cam eacross a lady who already 

had a copy of The Book of Mormon.  Seeing the Deurden had stopped for a while 

i joined him and the lady promptly let us enter (dang, how do you say that in 

english? that sound so awekward to me)  ANyway i´ve never felt more like a 

missionary than at this moment as we went over what other missionaries she´d 

talked to and what had happened.  We tyhen went into giving a little message 

and even found apropriot passages for her to read later which we marked for 

her and left her with.  After walking out of the house and turning the corner 

it was a like a little dance party as me and deurden celebrated the moment 

realizing that obviously the entire thing had been done in portuguese também!
  I dunno how woody the woodpecker ever got so big here, but, he´s def the 

man.  Just think about it, who wouldn´t wanna be Woody? lol the guys a stud 

with a wild personality! lol
  Well saturday marked the return of (yep thats right, you guessed it) ELDER 

GUERRA!!! We were leaving the house when i saw him across the street.....i´m 

pretty sure time stopped, lol (not gay?)  Sewriously tho it couldn´t have 

been more perfect, even if hollywood tried.  Its a busy street but somehow as 

soon as i saw him all the cars cleared and we met in the center of the road 

and  gave eachother huge hugs IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, it was madness i say! 

MADNESS!! lol
  That night was Patricia´s baptism.  The totall amount of people there was 

record breaking (btw i´m battling a fly as i write this, and its driving me 

nuts!)  Anyways  the total of missionaries ther was 8 lol then we had about 5 

different member fami´y´s represented there. On top of that Patricia had 

invited so non member friends, awesome and we had invited ´´The Mission 

President´´ and (bless his sole) both he and his wife were there.  In fact 

he even gave the thought/message at the baptism, WOW.  I tihnk what i most 

pulled from it was just the fact that as we share a thought it so important 

to lace our testimony through out it. It shouldn´t be a lecsure of words but 

a song of belief, does that make any sense?  The bishop then preformed the 

baptism.  Yeah pretty much the line up was loaded with heavy hitters, the 

spirit couldn´t have been stronger;
  The next day was church and with  Patricia´s baptism we didn´t really have 

any investigators who were truely comited to church.  So we weren´t to sure 

what our numbers would show for ppl in church.  Asumming the number would be 

zero my companion said a pray as we left that afternoon that some how we 

would be able to find people that day, somehow.  By the end of church we had 

no less than 4 new investigators brought by members that day.  Prays are 

answered by faith, and so, i´m glad my companion must have a had a ton 

cause i was just shocked.
  That night i went out with Elder Nasiomento who knew he would be leaving 

that tranfer, seeing as how his Office time was up.  We visited some of his 

recent converts and i ended up playing with a kid who was super wound up. 

It didn´t help much when grandma got home and poured sugar in his hand for 

him to eat...straight sugar, i kid you not.  I loved it tho, we play fought 

and i threw him in the air, all that jazz.  Then we went to wash our hands 

and well... i pretty much ended up taking a shower, not having been previously 

warned that their sink was wack.  all in fun
  There were no working buses monday, hectic.  We ended up eating lunch with 

elder duerden at there wards members home and checking transfers with them 

later on.  We were both excited to see that we´d be heading down to Aracaju 

together, though we are in different Zones now.
  HAPPY b-DAY travis!!! i love you
  phase 10? anyone?
  Everyone told me i was going to the best house in the mission leading up to 

my depature tuesday (ps 6 hour bus ride=no fun)  but seing it was still breath 

taking.  ITS 2 FLOORS!!! and its just me and my companion.  There are about 

10 or 11 different rooms....we use about 3.  The thing is ridiculous, and l 

love it, but with i could share the fun with a bunch of other elders.  O well 

my new comp is awesome.  He´s DL too, so that speaks for itself.  His name 

is Elder Reis and yes of course he´s brazilian.
  Thank you Aunt Wendy and Mrs Kia for the wonderful -packages i received 

Monday.  I was enjoyable to have one more thing to carry lol jk.  I opened 

up Mrs Kia´ps package in the train station and as i pulled out the wiffle 

ball bat frpm across the station you could here elder gellette yell ´´that 

is the coolest thing i´ve ever seen!!´´ which wasn´t an understate ment. 

Me and my companon tried it out later on em casa ;-)
 
Well thats just about all i got.  Remember next time you come to brazil to 

bring extra change for when you wanna use the restroom in the train station. 
 
Until Next Time
Elder Neuberger