Opa Gente

3/25/2009

I realizedd this week i was, for sure, born with a fotographic memory and a 

child.  The only problem was.....it never developed.  HA Ha ha......Dr Neuberger 

joke
 
How Is Home?  I´m so excited to get mail next week.  I´ve totally forgotten it 

existed!
 
  Setting in this lan house right now i tihnk i´m going to catch a cold becuase 

my feet are just freezing feeling ar conditioning for the firstt time in a long 

while.
  My comp is so american he can´t take cold showers, so ...he bought a new shower 

head.  After an hour of un screwing and rescrewing things apart and together 

with a butter knife and of course using ducktape....we still don´t have hot 

water.  haha,  i´m actually kinda happy about it, oops
  This week seemed a little slow becuase the first part of it was spent getting 

my new comp (E. Higginson) settled in and introduciong him to the members and 

such.  Then we had trouble finding a few lunches with out an E Reis around, 

luckly it all worked out tho.  Certainly the slowest part of the week was me 

getting sick.....which is never suppose to happen.  I tried to just play it 

of and go to lunch that segunda-feira but that just made things worse and i 

was in for the rest of the day.  It makes me so mad because there´s just not 

time to waste here.  This week has truely just been a make it or break it 

week of finding people for our teaching pool- which means just talking to 

everyone we see- because this transfer is only 5 weeks long.  So naturally 

besides feeling sick i felt terrible at the time i was killing while laying 

in bed and having my comp tell me i had dengue.
  More inportantly here in Socorro 1 the people are just amazing.  I know 

we´re told to love the perople and that ipve expressedd how much i have before 

but here in Socorro it just reaches new heights.  Members are more than just 

members and even more than friends.  They truely strengthen you as you strive 

to help strengthen them.  I´ve never been on so many member divisions or felt 

so supported.  Truely i have no complaints for this area.
  Like i said earlier we´re talking to everyone we can this week with the 

strategy of asking if we can just teach them the first lesson right then 

and there (sense everyone is just sitting on there front portch)  So far 

this has only worked once, but we hope those that we marked appionments with 

will luck out by having the whole family there when we pass by like we told 

them.
  My mom repeated a thought that has been constantly running through my mind 

this week, ´´Don´t judge.´´  Thi simple phrase is just so true and i´ve seen 

it hit me (embarisingly) this week.  To give you an example my Utah Companion 

can´t help but point out that we´ve talked to a drunk once a day this week. 

Not by choicec but becuase they come up to us asking us to help them home or 

to help them stop drinking.  The notcian of someone being able stop drinking 

here really didn´t even seem possilbe to me until yesterday when our 

appointment with Máxio didn´t fall through because he stayed sober the entire 

day and told us he couldn´t wait to do the same for our next appointment 

tomorrow.  I too can´t wait, or as we say here, ,´´Não vejo na hora!!!´´
  This week i realized that revaltion or answers to prayers may not always 

come as we expect it.  But thats the entire reason we have to keep our eyes 

open and mind focused on the Lord at all times.  Answers never come loudly 

but, as we know, through a still small voice, who may direct our thoguhts 

without us even realizing it till after the fact- as was the case with me 

this week.  I´ve enver felt better prepared to present the Book of Mormon 

to someone than now.
  I can´t think of to much else to write this week as my time comes to a 

close other than to remember ´´you miss 100% of the shots you don´t take´´ 

so take everychane you get to share the gospel.
 
Love Your Fellow Men,
Elder Neuberger