Brócoli!!

And if you read the title of this letter and started singing the veggie tales theme song you're a winner!! (winner take a bow!!(that one's for KL and Marissa)) 10 points for Grifindor! (that one's also for KL) 

Anyway the bishop's family found a great family this week!! The mom works at the restaurant that the bishop's mother-in-law owns and it turns out that she had actually at one point in her life been taught by the missionaries, but moved before she could be baptized and never got in touch with the missionaries after she moved. But now with her husband and two kids they are all excited to learn more and loved church yesterday!  We also had FHE with them last night and the bispo made pizza! But we had FHE about the plan of salvation which is so cool I love it!! And its awesome to teach a whole family about it!!

We also had divisions this week in a tri because the other sister has chickengonia, so we stayed here with Sister Santos.  It was a good time and then it actually lasted a little longer than normal because the elders scheduled a random zone meeting on Saturday morning that was just to tell us about a cleft palet help fair the church is helping host and they gave us pamphlets to hand out.  So she stayed with us till after almoço which made the rest of the day super fast because we dropped her off with her comp (then got ice cream while waiting for the bus at the bus stop ($1 or 3 reies for a big cone with hot fudge and those star things with chocolate inside. Totally worth the dollar!!)). Then we headed back to our area to meet up with the elders for an interview for a baptism in our area, but it ended up not working out sadly. But hopefully in a few weeks! 

We also got cake twice in one night because Irma Nici gave us some of the cake that she had made that day and then Irma Geisa gave us left over cake from the birthday party of Gabriel! I LOVE CAKE!! And sugar!! Hehehe and then on Sunday Geisa gave us even more cake!! BEST DAY EVER!!! 

We also had rice with broccoli in it this week and I had pasta with broccoli this week too!!! It reminded me of home and how mom puts broccoli in almost everything!! Oh and we had Japanese food ish this week which was amazing!!

And we met a great new investigator who has a dog named Chocolate!! How cool is that we actually met them because of the dog because I was like ohhh your dog is so cute can I pet it (are you friendly can I pet you) and then we started talking to them!! It was great!

I love the verse in Matthew 7:7 about praying and asking and if we truly ask and seek we will be give all that we ask for maybe not in the time or the way we want but in the way we truly need it. Heavenly Father truly knows what's best for us even when we don’t understand right then why it was answered in that way. We will understand with time that everything will work together for good and is for our good!

Oh and I didn’t get transferred! Im staying here for the next transfer!

Love you all!! Have a super blast and a half week!

Sister Neuberger

Faith Is Safe

10/9/2017

Hey so not much time today. but woah I just want to say that when your doing what you're supposes to be doing Heavenly Father will for sure protect you!

This week we helped Liduina and Roberto get closer to marriage and they are excited and their kids are even more excited!!  And we got Breno the oldest to come to conference which was so awesome because now he's more open to talk about religion and God which is such a difference than a few weeks ago. We also talked to someone who knows a lot about the bible and he likes to answer his own questions so we were there for 2 hours, but its all good. We invited him to pray in faith because that’s the only way you can know for sure.  And that's my thought for this week that its only through faith that we can know of these things to be true we cant just take someone else's words. We have to be willing to seek and find and pray and have faith in him to know the gospel is true. 

Super exciting news this week. We found out that we will be starting a group in our area at the end of the month and I'm just so excited.  I'm hoping I get to stay here one more transfer so I can help with it. Because we have this group and the elders have another and they are opening a new town that’s never had missionaries in my mission this next transfer and it's super on the down low that they are thinking of splitting my mission next year sometime.  The work is moving forward and it's awesome!!!!

We also had ward almoco this week and it was like memorial day picnic Brasil style because it was byon 2 chicken and vinigrette veggies and juice!!  Great stuff!!!

Had a baptism too and Wanderson is so excited to serve a mission next year!!!

10/16/2017

Happy birthday Ryan and Erin!! Hope you guys have a great week!!!
Rollerblading in this area has now bcome the new thing, in the evening all the kids are rollerblading or playing soccer; it's awesome!!  Though I don't know how long it will last with the rainy season trying to start.  We keep getting sprinkles of rain, but it doesn't stay long. It just stays long enough to make it hot and humid with the sun which is awesome.  

This week we worked on finding inactive members to tell them about the group that is starting in order to get them excited about it and how close it will be to them to walk. Most of the people in Rosalina stopped coming to church just because they didn't want to walk an hour to get there in the sun.  But this week we got to talk to a lot of them and we found some really great families and we also found a new family that is excited to know more.  We hope with the new closeness of the group they will be even more excited to come to church.  Oh and we got a few of the inactive members to come to church this week and then the group should be starting either this week or next!!

We also talked to Kauan and Pedro this week who are hilarious. They are some of the youth in this ward and they love Beverly Hills so every time we come to talk to them when we leave they always say tchau BEVELIHILLS! haha I die of laughter every time.

The family of the bishop owns a pizza place an one of the workers there they have been talking to about the church and it turns out that she actually was close to baptism at one point but then she moved and it didn't workout, but we talked to her at the end of church yesterday and the spirit was so strong and she is already starting to read the Book of Mormon which is awesome!!

Which leads me to my spiritual thought that sharing your light or your testimony is so important like it says in Matthew 5:16 let your light shine forth to others to help them feel of the love the lord has for them.  

Showing my support to the family back home by wearing the family team shirt for their Ragnar. Good Luck Fam!

Always be an example of the believers!
Lov you all!! Havea  fantabulous week!!!

Sister Neuberger 

Marriage Brings Us Together Today

This week was a bit of a blur because we were gearing all our investigators up for conference.  But this past Pday we got to watch "Once I Was a Beehive" (i think is the name in English) with a few moms in our ward and they even gave us ice cream.  hehe blueberry flavor!  I haven't had blueberries in so long so it was a delicious treat!!  

Just me and Sister Andre'

We also had the chance to help with the marriages of 17 couples and a few baptisms with the missions help.  On Saturday we got up really early to go to centro to meet up with more missionaries and our mission president and bishops from different wards to help in the marriages.  It was awesome to see the happiness and excitement of marriage that was brought to the couples.  Then we all got to watch General Conference which is always a great experience!

I hope everyone got to see at least one session of conference.  It's so important because we can receive so many answers to our questions.  We got Ana, a recent convert to come to all four sessions and women's conference and she absolutely loved it. She felt the spirit so strongly and found answers that she was looking for. It was such a great testimony/faith building moment for her.

I personally loved how many talks talked about the importance of serving others, but also to make sure that we are serving our family and helping in the home because our home should be like a temple helping us come unto Christ.  

Love you all so much!!! Have a fantabulous week!!!

Sister Neuberger