Praia

5/27/2009

Well just got don´t spending  the morning on the sand.  Yep, we went to the 

beach this morning with a few members...and the presidents permition, dad. 

Of course getting anywhere close to the water was out of the question.  But 

that was quite alright seeing as how the biggest intertainment came from 

knocking down coconuts for their water, which my comp and member our age and i 

participated in.  I tihnk we´ve now made it into a sport actually.  Lunch 

also consisted of just eating the meaty part of the coconut, which ps is 

ablolutely delicious.
  
Whats everyone else doing this winter, or summer,
  The begining of this week for my was spent proving to my companioon that i 

truely am Iron Man because after the fire insitent i had a few other incounters.
  The next happened when we left with a member to visit someone.  Unfortunatly 

her road had turned into a giant puddle, wait ...River.  Of course the memeber 

went trucking right through with her kid, but in attempt to keep my shoes dry 

for conference the next day me and my comp started along a fence.  Unfonrtuntly 

the fence ended and we had to jump in to the foot deep water anyways.  Well 

about three steps in i naturaully took a forth step, BAM i´m up to my chest 

in water- having stepped in a uncovered man hole i couldn´t see.  Luckly i 

caught myself/(started treding with one leg, as my comp later retold the story), 

unluckly about 10 brasies had nothing better to do but to have been sitting on 

their portch watching...cool
  So water and fire how now been survuvede and conquered, what was next?  Well 

everyday me and my comp hafta bike along the BR or the free way to get from 

one city to another.  COming home one night, naturally going about light speed, 

i make the exit to our home when my come shouts that we´re gunna visit one more 

person.  No problem i just make the turn into a gastation entrace ramp to get 

back on the BR as i keep talking to my comp about my grandparents.  The whole 

time i´m dodging all the potholes this parshly cement parshliy coble stone 

parshily dirt road has.  And as i turn to get back on the BR the road suddenly 

dips going from comcrete cobblestone to dirt in less than a second forming a 

huge hole i can´t aviod.  Unfortunatly the only brake that evfery occasionally 

works is the front one, and even it only works about 1/3 of the time -  what a 

blessing i worked on this occasion, sending me almost completely over the front 

of my handlebars (kinda like someone i knew in our Adventure Persuits class). 

But as i´m still trying to battle this out my correction isn´t enough and the 

end result is a sideays fall to my left side...the same side my comp is 

peddling on behind me.  I fall; he rams me; i go scraping about five feet 

on cobble stone..................excellent.  Now lets remember my comp has 

already been hit by a motorcycle here, and because of this he can´t seem to 

stop asking me if i´m ok.  I tell him im´fine about 20 times and that i just 

need to wash off my bloody arm before we visit anyone else.  
  But all good now, in fact i´m five days accident free, and totally healed 

(with the apcentce of a few arm hiars still.)
  Zone Conference was the mission tour this week with Elder Didia from Belgum. 

He speaks like five langueges and as i listened to him i would look at my comp 

and ask ´´Can you really say that?´´ Response ´´No, def spanish´´  But cool, 

def can understand alot of spanish words when put into portugues grammer. 

E. Didia pretty much just re taught us how we should teach.
  Sunday came and the sisteres had a baptism, my favorite part being the Hugo 

gave the closing prayer.  Elder Didia and The president both followed us back 

down to Estância for Conference of the Districto.  That was wonderful but 

nothing compares to the great feeling i get every time we do service.  You 

see one night this week i tihnk my comp and I must have made 50 pizzas (ok 

that and exageration) for a lady who sells them out of her house.  She had 

been really busy that day making a 90 dollar birthday cake and we knew the 

Relief society would be coming over that night to share a message with her. 

As the entered we took over, and omg it was a blast.  I´m prettyu much a 

professional pro pizza maker...in brasil.
  That same night Selmira (the chefe)´s neighbor´s baby was having problem. 

The childs ear is terribly infected.  So when the neighbor called for help 

we quickly responded to the call.  Standing in the background at first, we 

decicded to ask if the mom would like us to bless the child who had been 

crying in pain this entire time- by the end of the blessing the baby was 

sound asleep.
  I have a pretty long spiritual thought i wanted to share this week but 

it looks like i won´t have time.  Substituting i will say that a sister 

missionary hear said something i really liked this week.  That none of use 

our perfect.  Sometimes the people here seem to think that, that we´re 

perfect are because of this we always go to church.  But this is absolutely 

not the case, church is for everyone and we are far from perfect.  Does a 

healthy man go to the hospital?  Of course not, those who are sick go to the 

hospital.  And just like this we need to go to church every week to help with 

out spiritual weaknesses or ´´sicknesses´´
  I hope everyone has a great week.  I can testify Heavenly Father answers 

prayers and will always send blessing to those who choose to concord with 

His commandmentos.  Fast and pray fervently for those things you needs 

answers to with all your heart and listen closely for answers.  They will come
 
2nd Néfi 2:7-8,
Elder Neuberger