chaco tan

Hey yall!

It has been a good week here in Colonia. We are having so much fun and seeing so many milagros. I am amazed every day by how God is helping us in this work. He is blessing us so much and deserves all the glory. Here are some highlights from the week:

Alina: About a month ago while I was at church in our branch in El Real I met a 15 year old girl named Alina. Her dad is in the bishopric, so she comes with him occasionally, but is not a member. I talked to her and got her phone number. Sadly, she was leaving to travel to the US for a couple of weeks and we were never able to have a lesson with her. We texted her last week and invited her to church and she came. This week we finally had a charla with her! It was so cool, she basically knows everything about the church and feels so much peace when she comes. We think other missionaries just never knew she wasn't a member. We are probably going to invite her to be baptized this week! 

Melissa: We woke up on Tuesday with a text from a member that said he has a friend that wants a visit from the missionaries, so of course we "make room" in our schedule to go visit her. We were able to have 2 lessons with her this week and she is amazing! She told us she feels peace when she reads the Book of Mormon and we are going to invite her to baptized this week. Sadly, her daughter was sick so she couldn't come to church this week.

Familia De Leon: Last week when we were at church I met a member that moved back into our branch. I asked him if he had familiy and he told us he had a partner and 3 kids. We set a time to visit them. His partner wants to get baptized, but they need to get married first. He also has a 9 year old son we are going to try to start teaching.

Yessica and Mario: Yessica and Mario are an incomplete family we met last transfer. Mario is a member and Yessica wants to be baptized. They moved to Colonia and are starting a new life here. They have made some big changes. They also have come to church every week with their 2 kids, but they need to get married. This week they went to the court house and are moving along in the process. It normally takes about 3 months to get married here, so we are praying there will be a a milagro and it will be a little faster. 

Daniel: Sadly, we only had one lesson with him this week and he didn't come to church. We will have to move his date to be baptized, but we are trying to have faith.

Other highlights:

- Hermana Petersen is so funny and I am literally laughing all the time. It's bad when we are knocking doors or calling people and I can't hold it together. Her Utah accent doesn't help.

- Studying outside in the sun to work on our Chaco tan...I'm winning rn

- We had intercambios this week. I was with hermana Valesquez from Mexico. It was a good day full of milagros. 

- Ham and cheese sandwich for lunch everyday....without the cheese because I'd rather buy alfajores.

- Runs to the beach in the mornings

- We went to Ciudad Vieja last pday with the hermanas!

This week I have been thinking a lot about the scripture, “For after much tribulation come the blessings” (D&C 58:4). On the mission I have learned the truth of this scripture. We have days, week, transfers that are hard. Nobody wants to listen, all of our lessons are canceled, or other struggles but if we push through the trial of our faith blessings always come. I have seen that this week, we have had lots of weeks of only finding here in Colonia and after the test of my faith I have seen milagros. It's the same for real life, God gives us trials to test our faith. If we keep going with faith, there will always be blessings! God knows what He's doing!

Have a great week,

Hermana Neuberger