Halloween 🎃

Hey yall!

This week I hit 4 months on my mission! I have loved my time here in Uruguay. It has definitely not been easy, but I have learned so much. I have learned the importance of patience, prayer, genuinely caring for others, the need for our Savior, and so much more! When I have hard days on the mission, I think about our Savior and know He went through way more than we could ever imagine. I am so grateful for His sacrifice for us.

Bus ride to Montevideo

We went to Montevideo this week for some training. It was fun, but we took an 11 hour bus ride there, had a 5 hour conference, and then took an 11 hour bus ride back. BUT I got to see my CCM companion, Hermana Allred, so it was worth it! We were so tired the next day.....and we get to do it again next transfer!!

Speaking of transfers, this week we have transfers. I am staying in Artigas and getting a Uruguayan companion! I am so excited! I cant wait to learn more Spanish and more about the culture in Uruguay! 

Friday our ward had a halloween party! Hermana Ferre and I dressed as Elders.  When we were inviting our friends they all asked "yall celebrate halloween in the church?" The people here have mixed feelings, some think it is bad and others like it. The kids go trick or treating here, though. 

I hope yall have a good week!

Hermana Neuberger

 

 

The Juans

Hey yall!

This week went by so fast and I don't really remember what happened, but here is a quick recap:

- We were able to meet with our friend, Juan Silva, a couple of times. He accepted the invitation to be baptized! So we are excited about that! He is always so happy to meet with us and gives us food and drinks, but they are questionable...hahahaha! 

- We also met with our other friend named Juan Mesquita. We taught him about our purpose in life and what will happen when we die. He was smiling during the whole lesson. It was the most emotion he has ever shown and it was so cool to see how happy it made him. God has a plan for us and it gave Juan so much hope!

- We were able to meet with Ana Maria this week. She slept through church, but had us over for lunch on Sunday. She wanted to make us something American, so she made us hamburgers and french fries. The hamburgers didn't have buns and then she put a fried egg on top of the fries. It was definitely different but it was still good! 

- While knocking doors this week we met a 95 year old lady. I asked her if she read the bible and then she started quoting like the whole thing. She was so funny and gave us chocolate when we left. 

- This week we had a noche de hogar with an inactive family. After the lesson they told us this was exactly what they needed to hear and that they will start coming back to church! During the lesson, we talked about the importance of our decisions. I shared a quote my mom used to tell me all the time, "Your decisions determine your destiny." I love this quote. Focusing on the Lord in all of our decisions will help us feel joy! 

I hope yall have a good week! 

Hermana Neuberger

 

 

 

Miracles!!!

Hey yall!

I hope everyone had a good week! Saturday we went over to our bishop's house for asado! It was basically a huge barbeque. It was a perfect Saturday activity just missing the college football. Also, this week sounded like a crazy week of football! 

This week we saw so many miracles! Here are some of them: (sorry if this is long, there were so many)

-On Monday night I went to Brazil for exchanges. Normally, the STLs come to our area because they speak Portuguese in Brazil, but I got permission to go! On the way there my companion, Hermana Maxwell, left her phone in the taxi. People were telling us there was no way we would get it back. We went the day without a phone, but then while our companions were on their way to come pick us up their taxi driver got a text that the taxi company had the phone! (but kind of sad because I don't have any pictures from Brazil)

-Hermana Maxwell has not been in Brazil long and I don't know any Portuguese, so we were a little worried. The Lord helped us and people understood what we were saying! I also learned how to pray and read in portuguese!

-Juan accepted the invite to be baptized! He didn't come to church this week, so we will have to move his baptism date. 

-We met an inactive lady this week and she is the best. We stressed how the gospel blesses families and she invited some of her kids to the second lesson. She came to church this week and said her family will come next week! 

-We have been teaching a lady named Ana Maria for a few weeks. She is very well educated and when we first met her she said she is not religious, but that we could visit her. She told us that it would be a long process for her to come to church. However, this week when we asked her to come to church she told us that she had been talking to her "mormon friend." She told us that her friend was making her come to church and that they would walk to church together. She showed up at church with her friend Sunday and liked it!

-We found another Juan last Sunday while street contacting and he came to church Sunday! We've only met with him twice but he loves the church! 

-A 16 year old girl named Belen came up to us while we were knocking doors and told us she wants to meet with us. She explained that her grandma is a member and she used to go to church when she was little. 

-While we were knocking doors last night we found a lady that used to meet with the Elders. Her mom passed away 3 months ago and is looking for hope in her life. We are super excited to meet with her again this week and she is going to invite her family!

-We found a mexican restaurant this week and went with the other hermanas in our chapel. It had been way too long without mexican food!

God is a God of miracles! If we have faith, we can see miracles everyday. I love this scripture, "For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and I work not among the children of men save it be according to their faith." I know that God has blessed me so much. I am so grateful for the miracles  I am seeing here in Uruguay!

Have a great week!

Hermana Neuberger

 

 

 

Pics!

 

This week I don't have a lot of time to write so here are some pics with explanations!

-A member, Dora, was going to come with us to a lesson, but the lesson was canceled so we went to get ice cream instead!

-Our friend we met at the store a couple weeks ago, Tatiana.

-A family we are working with. 

-Tatiana had us help her dress all of the manikins in the store. We got to pick out the clothes to put on them!

-Stopped to take a picture of the countryside, while we were knocking doors 

-A man in our ward who never misses a Sunday.

-Kittens that a ward member had!

-The last supper before we started our fast!

Polvo de caca

 Hey y'all!

I hope y'all have had a good week! I am going to highlight some of my favorite things from this week:

- We got to watch all four sessions of General Conference in english with the other 6 hermanas in our chapel! 

- During General Conference we had a fiesta for Hermana Payne because it was her birthday. I attempted to make a dessert that a member made for us. We needed to buy polvo de cacao which is chocolate powder. However, when I went into the store I accidentally asked for polvo de caca which is poop powder. After the words came out of my mouth, I immediately knew what I had said by the look on the workers face. My companion and I started dying laughing. Whoops...

- A member in our ward gave us a referral and her friend is so interested in the gospel. She came to the church to watch conference on Saturday!

- On Thursday, we decided to stop by Lemon to talk to the worker we met last pday while shopping. We had a good conversation with her and found out she doesn't have much of a religious background but wanted a Bible and Book of Mormon. Later that day we stopped by again to give her both! She has so many questions so we have been going to visit her a lot . We have become good friends with her! She is probably in her 20s and is so cool! The sad part is she leaves for vacation this Friday and will be gone for 10 days. 

- We had a couple lessons with Juan this week. He is so funny and doesn't show much emotion, but I think we are going to invite him to be baptized this week!

- Almost everyday this week, we looked at our schedule thinking the day was going to be crazy and then all of our lessons cancelled. It has given us more time to find new people, which is the best!

That pretty much sums up my week. I loved Elder Olsen's talk at General Conference, he used to be a mission president in Uruguay! He talked about how Jesus is always the answer. No matter what trials you are facing, Jesus is always there and is ALWAYS the answer. The Savior loves you and He will help you!

Love y'all,

Hermana Neuberger