Dear Family,
WE WENT TO THE TEMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Lets just say the new things there exploded my brain. Walking out of there we all said, "I finally get why we go to the temple!".
We had a great testimony meeting as a zone afterward and we did a musical number. "If You Could Hie to Kolob." there is a professional pianist in the zone and he did a sweet arrangement that left the mission president's wife in tears.
We had a great week! Romina is finally getting her head straight about what she really wants in life and this morning declared that she is going to prepare herself for baptism. It has been a long process for her to get to this point! When she said that it felt awesome. What we taught about was based upon DyC20: 37 which is the requirements for baptism. I asked her about what she should feel like before she can be baptized. She said, "I should have repented of my sins and be changed!". and then we asked "How are you going to do that?" ,"Through praying, reading, and going to church", BBAAAAMMMM. That is someone who understands the gospel. I feel like too often we wonder if we truly have repented of our sins, questioning whether the atonement is really playing a role in our lives when often we just need to look at how we spend our time, thoughts, and efforts. If you are truly praying with real intent, treasuring up the scriptures, and attending church wanting to become more like Christ..you will without a doubt be changed/repentant cleansed from sin.
A lot of crazy stuff happened as well this week... We dug a trench again, and fixed a dirt driveway... while digging I found a white oval rock that looked cool. So I picked it up and it was smooth and then as I squeezed it a little it exploded on my face. It happened to be a snake egg. All of the Paraguayan kids thought it was funny.
Elder Richardson is doing great, he has dropped about 30 lbs. Happens when all you eat is lunch and walk around all day.
We have been finding some great families in our area and getting a lot more help from members! We had about 2 families who were inactive show up for church!
I finsihed The Book of Mormon again in Spanish this last week, and I am starting on Jesus the Christ in Spanish.
Love, Elder NEifert
RACHEL!, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! whenever I think about your birthday i think about you and you are cool, and funny, and a great sister!
I need to send you a picture, but you will have to wait until next monday when i have my camera cord! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Monday, April 28, 2014
Monday, April 21, 2014
Easter = Chipa?
Dear Family,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUSTIN AND FIL! AND ALSO JARED NEXT TUESDAY!
This week was full of great stuff. Because it was "la semana santa" there was a of traditions going on. Really just a lot of chipa. Chipa is a hard cheesy flour based bread that you bake in a tataqua (brick oven) on top of banana leaves (its not that good). We made some chipa with the Britez family and we also cooked one of their ducks, a pig, and 2 chickens.
But everybody makes chipa...so every house we went to they loaded us up with more chipa until it just got ridiculous, and we cookie monstered (pretend like you are eating it but its really just crumbling in front of your face) as we walked home. I am not sure what chipa has to do with Easter.
We found a great family this week who were less active and they came to church last week! They have 5 priesthood holder possibilities!.
We are going to the temple tommorow and I am freakin' out about seeing the new temple movie! I have only seen the old old one so I am pumped. The whole zone is doing a fast so that the work will progress and that is cool you all are doing one too!
Elder Richardson and I tromped around in the rain a ton this week visiting people. He fell down in the mud twice and it was super funny. We both have gone into a haiku poem phase where we make up sweet haiku`s. No stomach problems this week and we are back at 100%.
Some great things I learned this week that have inspired me are a talk by Elder Eyring titled "Come Unto Me". and might I recommend it to you all. It opened my eyes a little wider about how we can know the atonement is taking affect in our lives. Also I found another scripture that I like a lot in luke 9 vs 62: "No man having put his hand to the plough, and LOOKING BACK is fit for the kingdom of god." It helps me think about the commitments and covenants we make with Christ and how only when truly committed and resolved progress is made. There is so much work to be done, and it takes committment to do it.
We did a trek to the Temple, walking with members from the chapel in Yukyry to Asuncion. I think it was like 10 miles.. easy peasy for a man who walks all day every day... but for a lot of the sisters in the branch showed up with flip flops it was tough. Not suprisingly half way through the trek when the rain started that it was the men who wanted to quit and take a bus, and the wemon in flip flops who said they would rather push forward. We sang as we saw the Temple "I Love to See the Temple" and there was a great feeling. Arriving being soaked we finshed the trek to the Temple super happy and spiritually filled.
I will let you all know how the Temple goes and the musical number we are singing. Hopefully I can get a video of it!
Love,
Elder Neifert
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUSTIN AND FIL! AND ALSO JARED NEXT TUESDAY!
This week was full of great stuff. Because it was "la semana santa" there was a of traditions going on. Really just a lot of chipa. Chipa is a hard cheesy flour based bread that you bake in a tataqua (brick oven) on top of banana leaves (its not that good). We made some chipa with the Britez family and we also cooked one of their ducks, a pig, and 2 chickens.
But everybody makes chipa...so every house we went to they loaded us up with more chipa until it just got ridiculous, and we cookie monstered (pretend like you are eating it but its really just crumbling in front of your face) as we walked home. I am not sure what chipa has to do with Easter.
We found a great family this week who were less active and they came to church last week! They have 5 priesthood holder possibilities!.
We are going to the temple tommorow and I am freakin' out about seeing the new temple movie! I have only seen the old old one so I am pumped. The whole zone is doing a fast so that the work will progress and that is cool you all are doing one too!
Elder Richardson and I tromped around in the rain a ton this week visiting people. He fell down in the mud twice and it was super funny. We both have gone into a haiku poem phase where we make up sweet haiku`s. No stomach problems this week and we are back at 100%.
Some great things I learned this week that have inspired me are a talk by Elder Eyring titled "Come Unto Me". and might I recommend it to you all. It opened my eyes a little wider about how we can know the atonement is taking affect in our lives. Also I found another scripture that I like a lot in luke 9 vs 62: "No man having put his hand to the plough, and LOOKING BACK is fit for the kingdom of god." It helps me think about the commitments and covenants we make with Christ and how only when truly committed and resolved progress is made. There is so much work to be done, and it takes committment to do it.
We did a trek to the Temple, walking with members from the chapel in Yukyry to Asuncion. I think it was like 10 miles.. easy peasy for a man who walks all day every day... but for a lot of the sisters in the branch showed up with flip flops it was tough. Not suprisingly half way through the trek when the rain started that it was the men who wanted to quit and take a bus, and the wemon in flip flops who said they would rather push forward. We sang as we saw the Temple "I Love to See the Temple" and there was a great feeling. Arriving being soaked we finshed the trek to the Temple super happy and spiritually filled.
I will let you all know how the Temple goes and the musical number we are singing. Hopefully I can get a video of it!
Love,
Elder Neifert
Monday, April 7, 2014
Photos!
Okay.. we got c´s candy suckers and were excited,
We found a tarantula by our door,
We killed a pig,
went to the soccer museum ....again
The president of south america football
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