Secreto Oracao

4/29/2009

I have Wrigley´s new ad campain all ready....´´5 gum, the only gum to ever 

with stand Brasil.  Get Sum, Go There, Gum....5 Gum´´  yeah?
 
Everybody else smilling as much as i am these days?
  Just spent the morning cleaning my house...never again.  The smell of bleach 

cleaner makes me trunkier than life, all i can think is pool, polo, perfeito
  Well after a crazy crazy week (we´ll get there) i think i can absolutley say, 

right now, i am in the best part of my mission.  Having fun and just wanting to 

go nonstop.  The languege isn´t a problem and its to the point were me and my 

comp can truely bring our personalities into the lessons, bouncing jokes off 

each other at times or reinforcing eachothers words and testimonies
  Anywho are adventure of the week starts in Aracaju from where i last wrote you. 

The group of, stunningly handsome, missionarys had decided to go to Buger King 

that day, and had a blast in doing so.  WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, on the bus ride 

home(ish) eLeZ gets a phone call, looks at me ands says´´hey your being 

transferred and´´.  Interesting last time i had these exact two same LZs the 

same thing happened....interesting.  This time i stayed in the same zone, but 

the move was alot further.  The response to this call from the president 

resulted in returning to Aracaju grsabbing my stuff, returning to Itibiana 

that night, half packing and packing the rest in the morning  to head to...

Estância!!!  And getting there met finding my way through a web of taxis 

(without anyone to hold my hand)
  The real joy of the entire project was that i had just started laundry, not 

anticatpating packing again so soon....resulution, ironed all my clothes 

including underwear so that i could through then bck in a suit case. 

Fortunately when you have a man iron (Black and Decker, thank you) nothings 

impossible.
  So now we´re here in Estância,  with a brand new chapel thats only been 

used for 2 weeks.  The last area of my derest friend E olson in fact.  And 

having just had an open house the week before, we were left with alot of 

references to follow up on this week.  Very cool and easy specilly when....

I´m in the only area with bikes in the whole mission.  Of course its hard to 

say how much of a difference bikes truely make when they appear to have square 

wheels and are falling apart lol. jk...but really.  Its actualyl quite a 

blessing sense I have a whole in my left shoe that makes puddles a drag, 

buton a bike NO WORRIES.
  Helped build the roof of a house this week....that was a lot of words i 

didn´t know.  But thats ok cause i´m sporting an awesome comb over this week, 

so its all good.
  Also met the best drunk i ithn k i  ever will, who said he was the son of 

David Cooperfeild.  He actually new english pretty well and as he showed us a 

few magic tricks (o yeah we have sister missionaries down here who we eat 

lunch with and are in our ramo) he went in and out of português to english...

i think without knowing it.  aka (tbs) very funny
  Week Highlight was diffenenantly a baptism that i biked my ...bum? off for. 

It took three trips back and forth to this other city she lives in to finally 

comfirm it.  The main problem was the president being out of town in São Paulo 

and things just kept building up.  But it worked out in the end which was 

excellent because otherwise her enthusian would have been crushed as she had 

changed alot of things in her life that week to meet the requirments of baptism. 

I believe my favorite quote was, ´´I don´t know what will happen afterwards, but 

i´m going to be baptized´´...perfect
  I read a article this week about prayer that realy touched me.  It talked 

about kneeling down and offering a prayer in which your only aloud to ask for 

one thing- that Heavenly Father open your eyes to the blessings you have- from 

there thank the Lord for all you have.  Not only would i chanllenge each of 

you to take time out of your lives to do this butto also reflect on the way in 

which you pray by reading the 7th and 8th paragraphs aboutprayer in the bible 

dictionary.  This truely will become quite an experience if you put though into 

it.  To quote the bible dictionary, ´asa soon as we learn the true relationship 

in which we stand toward God then at once prayer becomes natural and insticntive 

on our part.´´  May times throught my weeks here, if i catch a moment in which 

the thought ´what could i do right now,´prayer, more and more, sounds lke a 

perfect use of my time.  This is especially important as we read in 3 Néfi 18:20 

that those we ask for will be ansered with the understanding that´´The objet of 

prayer in not to change the will of God , but to secure for ourselves and others 

blessings that God is alradey willing to grant´´  We also must pray with real 

intent (see MOroni 10:4)   Of course all those of us who went to primary know 

the form of prayer and that we end in Christ name as it is Him through who we 

pray to our Heavenly Father.  But what does that really mean?  Praying in 

Christ´s name? i´ll let the BD answer this;´´We pray in Christ´s name when our 

mind is the mind of Chirst, and our wishes the wishes of Christ.´´  It goes on 

to talk about how many prayers may appear to go unansered because they are of 

selfish intenet.  So the question is, How are your prayers?
  I can promise you as you go about improving your prayer you will be able to 

see the blessings and peace inj brings nto your life.  Never forget to be 

thankful for all that you have.  As you start to think in the blessings you 

have you will realize they all came from other blessings of which came from 

other blessings and the list becomes endless.
 
 
I am so grateful for our Savior who makes this all possible,
Elder Neuberger