4/14/2010
It´s easy to figure out that you´ve walked into the wrong bathroom when you see sister beynon standing at the sink........oops
lol, WAT UP STL/SLC/TX and others!!!
COOL things happened this week folks, coolissmo thinginhos! Pretty
busy week too, but that's usually how they come and go. so hmm lets see
what i can remember. O first of all my comp dreamed of my being a
secret agent, which i took quick as both prophecy and revelation.
Anyways in other new the rainy season started with a bing bam willa
wonga wupo this week. I don´t think i've ever seen walked through or
nearly drowned in bigger puddles in my life. The thing is i´ve seen
this much rain but where we´re from it has somewhere to go. However,
here at sea level everything backs up and water starts pouring out of the sewer pipes and truly truly i could have taken a jet ski around town if
i´d wanted to this weekend. Not to mention our house in is renovation
and it rained to much that ever the concrete started dripping from where
they had put it on the wall. Needless to say i spent three days wih
pools in my shoes!
Answering a phone call from Alagos the other day i figured it was the assistants saying, ´´BATIZA!!! BICHO!!!´´ threw me a little bit when
the presidents voice came out from the other side laughing ´´Batiza
Elder Neuberger, como voce vai´´ o man....ya do what ya do.
Within all this madness we had zone conference interviews baptisms baptismal interviews and Ward Mission leadership training with
bishops........AHHH!!!! then president calls us Sunday and goes, ´´Hey
were are you guys? and your zone....?´´ WHAT!!! sorry prez i have no
idea what your talking about. ´´Elder for a month we have panned to
visit every inactive member in Grajeru as a zone in a blits thingy
tonight´´.......burned. Luckily it was proved that STAFF had never told
anyone except the president and the stake president so we got off clean
but....i won´t lie my heart certainly stopped.
Then there were the powerful parts of the week. Te moments that shot
your heart to your throat from the spirit. I think one of those moments
would definitely half to have been during the assistants' training where
they were talking about baptizing families and the importance of find
teaching challenging...or something like that. Everything blurr3ed together as they started sharing scriptures jointly with pictures of
family baptisms on the mission. Then they paused found my son in the crowd and called him up to the front. As Dunkleys walked up to the
pulpit i had a pretty clear vision of what was about to happen. The
next slide flipped and the Ass. had him read the DC scripture in that
perfect port i taught him then threw up a picture of Cristina and her
families baptism. BAM!!! ´´Elder Dunkley who is this family´´ This is a family that we found threw faith, proof of the importance of faith and
hard work. They then pointed to me and had me tell the story more
clearly. Super powerful moment, maybe for me more than others but testimony building moments always come in every shape and size and not
taking advantage of them is crazy.
Then there was Lâni´s baptisms Saturday night that went of perfectly.
The bishop rapping it up at the end (poor guy) could not get her name
right despite having it blatantly written on his hand....sorry but, Hilarious.
Then yesterday there was Gildomar´s family and casaul that were
teaching were only he isn´t a member. The wife took a moment to tell us
(after not having helped us much in previous weeks) how Sunday after a
week full of problems and such things she buckled down and made sure to
pay her tithing. After that Gildomar had been able to solve his work
problem and their finaces went back to normal (that story was alot
better in port)
I know this gospel changes lives and IT IS NOT BY WAT WE TEACH. true
we have many tools in helping us bring the gospel in to the lives of
others but sometimes elders get caught up in TEACHING! We are not here
to teach, truthfully in a perfect setting we´re not even here to search
and find but to BAPTIZE. The key to this? The Spirit, i cannot tel my
Elderes enough that no teaching will help you without the spirit. NEVER
should they mark a day to ´Challenge someone´´ But the moment they
arranjar the spirit that is the moment to invite, it may be in the
contact in the street or that nigt in the persons house, regardless we
can not wait, this is not our time. Without inviting ppl to change
their lives they will never change. I read some where this week, ´When a
person is ready to be invited it is no longer and invitation.´Get it?
at that point it just a confirmation. Use the Spirit use the Spirit use
the Spirit. Be bold, Challenge, Convert (by the Spirit) and Baptism.
Once the Spirit has testified and spoke to the soul the ppl will trust
in your words and the rest can be taught in 10 minutes. Our Lord and
God created the earth and it´s inhabitants within 7 days, imagine what
we can do within 2 years. CORAGEM E FORÇA ELDERES!
sigh...there's more but we´ll leave it at that, in the name of our Savior Jesus the Christ Amen
D&C 60:2-4
Elder Neuberger
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