6/10/2009
Just speak english...its a brazilian slang
It´s impossible to not miss a wonderful city like the STL, especially when i
know all the grea ppl like you,
Well i had a similar bike experience as E Olson this week as far as break
downs. We were out working with a member when my bike started making the same
motions and sounds as a neub trying to drive a manual car for the first time.
I looked down, as my bike came to a sudden stop, as found that the brakes had
shredded off almost the intire left side of my front rim....awesome. We
disassembled the brakes am made it the rest of the way home. 10:30 am the next
day and 60 reais later my bike is working....ish.
That may potentially be the most excieting thing that happened this week.
Which is quite alright cause me and my spicey friend (comp) havn´t had much
time for anything else. WE´ve been working arounsd the clock without taken
dinner break (don´t worry theres plenty to eat on the street). I can´t even
discribe how happy this makes me, being ´´home´´ here just makes me sick.
This transfer out look appears as if it will be alot of reactivition of
inactive recent convert (of 2-5 years). The plan is up lift two birds with
one lesson. Meaning every lesson is, in a way, a family night with everyone's
friends or neighbors. At the moment we have 3 solid families were working with
assim.
Tomorrows a holiday....look out. Cool though is the fact that the church is
having a quad branch activity and i think we have about all of our investigators
going, solid.
Quick shout out to WH´s SWIM CLUB, the love of my life.
I have an article that i´ve wanted to share with all of you forever that was
only proved more important by my dad´s email this week.
The article is from the 2007 Feb. Ensign called ´´Ten Axioms to Guide Your
Life.´´ by Robert D. Hales. I won´t be able to recount the full articule
here but i would incougare each of you to take a look. So, some highlights;
Jus looking at the title you can relize the articule is to help fortilize
each one of us in such time as these. Infact part os the article even hits
on how the world changes more and more the church still stays the same as a
light to those who are looking for it. ´´It´s not the obstacle that counts,
but how you over come it. As you go forth to serve, you will find that your
greatest success and influence won’t come solely from the knowledge you’ve
gained. It will come from what you do with that knowledge—the wise use of
agency to make sound decisions. Temporal obstacle make eternal development
possible.´´ Do all this pressing forward with faith and hope (2 Nefi 31:20)
and prayerfully (2 Nefi 32:9). Combining points 3 and 4 E Hales talks about
self awareness. Each of us have strengths and weaknesses that will affect
us in the long run. We must realise how small choices now may amek big
differences in the future and the necessity to not only relie on our strengths
when we have opportunity to over come our weaknesses. For many weaknesses may
even just be the inablility to get along with someone else, ´´if you cannot
get along with other people, you will fail. You must now apply the knowledge
you have gained to strengthen the Church, your family, your work, the
community, and your friendships.... You may be skilled and well prepared in
some areas of your life, but that can also become a great weakness if you
rely solely on these abilities. If you are not careful, the skills you have
gained can be very self-serving when not properly balanced, and they may
become very limiting. ... Our greatest strengths can become weaknesses to us
whenever we forget that our gifts, talents, and intellect are given to us by
God—whenever we rely on the “natural man” (Mosiah 3:19) and forget that God
is the giver of all the gifts of life´´ He refernced Mosias here, but i
would also reference 2 Nefi 9:28-29. Learn from your mistakes by analyzing
what you have failed to do in the past. Whether we realize it our not we
grow in, some acpicte, every second of our life. Look back on your day today
and strive to make tomorrow even better.
Now we come to my absolute favorite part if the article. Many of you may
know i´m a sucker for sports quotes and so #6 absolutley stole my heart (pay
attention dad): John Stephen Akhwari, a marathon runner from Tanzania, competed
in the 1968 Summer Olympics. Even though he suffered along the way from
fatigue, leg cramps, dehydration, and disorientation, a voice called from
within to go on, and so he went on. Exhausted and staggering, John Stephen
was the last man to enter the stadium. When asked why he would complete a
race he could never win, Akhwari replied, “My country did not send me 7,000
miles [11,200 km] to start the race; they sent me 7,000 miles to finish the
race.”
In life, we are not brought to earth just to be born into mortality. We came
with a mission and a purpose, and that is to endure to the end.
So, if you are not where you want to be, decide today to get there.
You can cross the finish line with everyone else. ´´
“Go forward and not backward. Courage, … and on, on to the victory!” (D&C 128:22).
This is God´s plan for us. To close i will just quote one more cite from his
article; ´´With faith, we can take seriously the Lord’s counsel to “search
diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together
for [our] good” (D&C 90:24). ´´
Now i´ll leave the rest for you to read and cherish. I hope all of you
know how much i think about, care for, and love eacha nd every one of you.
Its a pleasure, but more realistily, an honor to be here. I know we can all
put these teaching into practice to better ourselves and uplift those around
you. Never have i seen anything bad come from trying to make more time for
and from better living the teaching of the Lord. At times the blessing may
seem small or even unrecongizable but when we look back again with more
spiritual eyes, i promise we will better understand what Our Heavenly Father
may have instore for us. Never take what He may have planned forgranted,
what more can i say?
My heart if full
2 Néfi 9:19-20
E Neuberger
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