Hi family!
Thanks for your emails AND for your letters that you sent last week! It was such a fun surprise to get them! I love reading about whats happnin’ in Provo and in everyone’s lives and just everything, I luf it!
The football game sounds like it was fun! Its funny that you talk about it being cold. There is such a different standard of cold here – as in it really doesn’t get that cold but people think that it does sometimes. But, it has been more rainy. I guess December it gets a little more chilly during the nights and a little bit rainier. But, its been great. Last night we were knocking on doors without much success and I was kind of discouraged and then I looked around me and thought “Wow, I am so blessed to be here – I need to count my many blessings and never forget how blessed I am to be here”.
I’m glad that the German Shepherd story went over well. I wasn’t sure if it would be as funny written or not. But, the entire ward knows about it and every time they see us they remind us to watch out for the dogs! Which, speaking of my moments of enchantment this week are 1) we saw monkeys! At the college a few years ago did an experiment with monkeys but somehow 30 of them got loose and know there are 600 or so in the area! Anyway, we saw about 15 of them the other day! 2) We were tracting in the country yesterday and I saw that some of the cows were acting funny… as it turns out they were a bunch of bulls and they were all starting to fight with their horns and everything!
But, on a more spiritual note… yesterday while tracting we were walking these hills in the middle of no where finding houses and some guys on horses passed by (the weekends you see a lot more people riding horses ) then one of the them rode back after a minute and asked us if we had any literature that we could give him. We gave him a pamphlet on the restoration and who knows what will come of it but it got us talking about what the people think of us here. The past couple of days a lot of people have told us that they have seen us walking around town. “Ah ustedes son las dos muchacas caminando por todos lados… las he visto”. It must look strange to see to Young girls with skirts walking the streets but it reminded me of a blessing that Dad gave me when I was filling out my papers. He said that I would go teach the gospel to the people in their language and that as I walk the streets the people would know of my goodness. I always had faith that that would happen but never thought that it would be manifest to me in anyway. It was a neat experience to be able to see that blessing being fulfilled here in my area. Wow, how neat. Heavenly Father loves us so much. The priesthood is real.
I know that Heavenly Father lives and I know that He keeps His promises. I read today in Doctrine and Covenants 130:20-21. It is so awesome. Well my time is up. I love you all so much and hope that you have a great Thanksgiving!
Love,
Sister Maclaine Neff
Here is a letter to her Mission Pres. that Maclaine forwarded to us:
Just an update on "la obra"the work
We did have a neat lesson with our new baptismal dates Elizabeth and Lili. They are both young mothers who have grown up without any kind of religious background but they truly do have the desire to change. Lili is not as prepared as Elizabeth but I hope that she will gain a stronger testimony as she reads. I am really excited about Elizabeth! She is only 19 years old and has a baby and a 3 year old daughter. She knows that she needs to change and wants to do what is necessary to keep God’s commandments. She doesn’t have a license and so getting to church is a struggle but something she said really made us excited. She told us to pray for her as she is taking the test this Tuesday and without us even asking said that she plans on coming to church every Sunday after she gets her license. There is still a lot that we need to teach her and some challenges that might come along the way but I know that she will be baptized. After the appointment I felt so much joy in knowing that these girls are planning to come unto Christ through baptism. I felt so blessed to be here and to know them and help them know more about Heavenly Father and the plan that He has for us. It was a joy that was immeasurable.
Anyway, with the ups and downs of the mission, I overall feel so grateful for this opportunity that I have to serve the Lord. I already have seen so many blessings in my life and in the life of my family for this decision to serve a mission. I love the Lord. I love His gospel and I know that it is true.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Out Boy. Out!
Hi Guys!
Thanks for your letters and your love – I love hearing about everything that is going on. And, laughed almost out loud when I read about Gabe and the tooth fairy quote. Luf iT! (You guys probably don’t even use the “luf “ quote anymore, but I think I’ll keep using it for a little while).
Wow, it has been a crazy week! I think that that is how my journal entries start every day “wow, today was crazy” but its usually a good crazy. But first I’ll just do the “housekeeping” things first because its not fun to end on those kinds of things. But thanks mom and dad for always being aware of me and sending me things – it means a lot. I haven’t gotten my pillow but they didn’t bring really any mail to transfers but we have zone conference in a week so I’ll be looking for it then. Then transfers are on the 24th of Dec. I think that we go to the mission home or something like that to have a “Christmas Conference” but I don’t think that Hna Turcios and I will be together after this transfer… we’ll see what happens. We’ve had a lot of fun together. Of course there are going to be times when something gets under your skin but I’ve realized that that is normal and is always going to happen – you have to take the best of whats happening!
Oh Dad, by the way great job on your talk! I love how you chose to look at the last days as the “great” days. We had a really neat conference (via satellite) with Elder Bednar, he was in San Juan but was answering questions of members all over Puerto Rico. He said SO many neat things. One of the things that he said was that the apostles have the same scriptures that we do… meaning that when we have a question or a concern we can always go to the scriptures. I realized this morning how precious the scriptures really are. In such a little space we have accessible to us the fullness of the gospel. He also said that to continue to be strong in the church we should learn its doctrines, keep our covenants and remember who we are – Children of God, the seed of Abraham. He talked about that whenever we are tempted by the adversary he really is just trying to get us to deny who we really are. Anyway, really neat.
But I’ll tell you a little bit about our crazy week – well, really just a crazy couple of days – just for fun. I’m still laughing about it. So Wednesday. Transfers. We have car inspections and were told to leave the keys in the car with the car unlocked – so I did but forgot that our car locks automatically. That was a nice little surprise after! They had already sent someone with the master keys but we had to wait after for 1 ½ hours or so. And it takes about 3 hours to get to our home so we were getting a late start (but I love driving to transfers – I feel so grown up !) Then I guess we were having too good of a time because when we entered the express highway I got in the wrong lane where you don’t have to pay because you have a sticker in the window. Ahhh! But we couldn’t turn around! I freaked out and thought to myself “I’m a missionary! I can’t be using the highway without paying! I veered off really fast and we got everything sorted out – I guess it’s a 100 dollar fine that they’ll send to the office but they can figure it out so its only 20. Whew. Then, we had to travel through San Sebastian and got lost in the beautiful jungly hills of Puerto Rico. It was a lot of time in the car but so pretty!
Then, (sorry what a long story) the next day it was thundering and lightning a lot and we were in an area just leaving an appointment that fell through. My companion was just about to open the door to get in the car after backing me up when a huge German Shepherd came running up to her. She is really scared of dogs but just stood still as it kind of circled around her. She decided to try to get in the car but the dog decided to get in first! I got out really fast but there was nothing we could do to try to get it to leave! And we were in the middle of the street!
We made a huge traffic jam because it was on a skinny little street but a bunch of people came to try to help us to get the dog out. No luck. It was making itself really comfy in our car – safe from the thunder. Finally after about a half an hour the owners came looking for it and took it away.
Yikes, it was crazy. I was laughing about it all day. Edwin said that the dog knew that we were missionaries and he wanted to be safe in our car. Whew, its harder to write a story like that to tell it in Spanish even! Anyway, I hope that you liked it!
The best part of the week was definitely the baptism of Richard. It was great. It being the first baptism that we were completely in charge of (Carmen and Edwin’s we did in the stake center with another ward) I was pretty nervous and anxious for it to come. After resolving a few minor problems, the hour finally came and it was a beautiful service.
Before I came on my mission I really didn’t understand the significance of baptism but now after knowing it makes it so much more special. I know that only through baptism we can come to live with our Heavenly Father again and that when we are baptized we covenant to live the commandments and to always remember Christ, that we have taken His name upon us. We felt the spirit really strongly throughout the baptismal service and especially when he gave his testimony at the end. He is a pretty quiet man, especially because he doesn’t speak Spanish very fluently so I was expecting that he wasn’t going to bear his testimony. But he did and it was perfect. He said that he was glad that he had left the bad parts of his life behind and that he wanted to live with God and with his family after this life.
I feel so grateful to be a part of his conversion. The members are being really supportive of him and I think that he is feeling a lot more a part of the ward family. I am so excited for him and to be able to experience the blessings of being a member of the church.
After the baptism I was pretty tired and couldn’t find the energy to talk a lot, so we drove to a place in our area to contact that day while listening to “Yo se que vive Mi Senor”. I learned the importance of meditation that day. I listened carefully to the lyrics and was reminded of Christ’s love for me. I was able to testify with so much more sincerity that night because I knew why I was testifying to the people – because Christ loves them, He died for them and He wants them to partake of the eternal blessings of His Gospel. I was very grateful to have had that experience.
Anyway, I love you all so much and am always praying for you. I know that you are praying for me and that I am being helped so much by your prayers while I am here. I know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true. I’m so thankful for my membership and for the knowledge that I have about its restoration through Joseph Smith. I love you all so much!
Sister Neff
Thanks for your letters and your love – I love hearing about everything that is going on. And, laughed almost out loud when I read about Gabe and the tooth fairy quote. Luf iT! (You guys probably don’t even use the “luf “ quote anymore, but I think I’ll keep using it for a little while).
Wow, it has been a crazy week! I think that that is how my journal entries start every day “wow, today was crazy” but its usually a good crazy. But first I’ll just do the “housekeeping” things first because its not fun to end on those kinds of things. But thanks mom and dad for always being aware of me and sending me things – it means a lot. I haven’t gotten my pillow but they didn’t bring really any mail to transfers but we have zone conference in a week so I’ll be looking for it then. Then transfers are on the 24th of Dec. I think that we go to the mission home or something like that to have a “Christmas Conference” but I don’t think that Hna Turcios and I will be together after this transfer… we’ll see what happens. We’ve had a lot of fun together. Of course there are going to be times when something gets under your skin but I’ve realized that that is normal and is always going to happen – you have to take the best of whats happening!
Oh Dad, by the way great job on your talk! I love how you chose to look at the last days as the “great” days. We had a really neat conference (via satellite) with Elder Bednar, he was in San Juan but was answering questions of members all over Puerto Rico. He said SO many neat things. One of the things that he said was that the apostles have the same scriptures that we do… meaning that when we have a question or a concern we can always go to the scriptures. I realized this morning how precious the scriptures really are. In such a little space we have accessible to us the fullness of the gospel. He also said that to continue to be strong in the church we should learn its doctrines, keep our covenants and remember who we are – Children of God, the seed of Abraham. He talked about that whenever we are tempted by the adversary he really is just trying to get us to deny who we really are. Anyway, really neat.
But I’ll tell you a little bit about our crazy week – well, really just a crazy couple of days – just for fun. I’m still laughing about it. So Wednesday. Transfers. We have car inspections and were told to leave the keys in the car with the car unlocked – so I did but forgot that our car locks automatically. That was a nice little surprise after! They had already sent someone with the master keys but we had to wait after for 1 ½ hours or so. And it takes about 3 hours to get to our home so we were getting a late start (but I love driving to transfers – I feel so grown up !) Then I guess we were having too good of a time because when we entered the express highway I got in the wrong lane where you don’t have to pay because you have a sticker in the window. Ahhh! But we couldn’t turn around! I freaked out and thought to myself “I’m a missionary! I can’t be using the highway without paying! I veered off really fast and we got everything sorted out – I guess it’s a 100 dollar fine that they’ll send to the office but they can figure it out so its only 20. Whew. Then, we had to travel through San Sebastian and got lost in the beautiful jungly hills of Puerto Rico. It was a lot of time in the car but so pretty!
Then, (sorry what a long story) the next day it was thundering and lightning a lot and we were in an area just leaving an appointment that fell through. My companion was just about to open the door to get in the car after backing me up when a huge German Shepherd came running up to her. She is really scared of dogs but just stood still as it kind of circled around her. She decided to try to get in the car but the dog decided to get in first! I got out really fast but there was nothing we could do to try to get it to leave! And we were in the middle of the street!
We made a huge traffic jam because it was on a skinny little street but a bunch of people came to try to help us to get the dog out. No luck. It was making itself really comfy in our car – safe from the thunder. Finally after about a half an hour the owners came looking for it and took it away.
Yikes, it was crazy. I was laughing about it all day. Edwin said that the dog knew that we were missionaries and he wanted to be safe in our car. Whew, its harder to write a story like that to tell it in Spanish even! Anyway, I hope that you liked it!
The best part of the week was definitely the baptism of Richard. It was great. It being the first baptism that we were completely in charge of (Carmen and Edwin’s we did in the stake center with another ward) I was pretty nervous and anxious for it to come. After resolving a few minor problems, the hour finally came and it was a beautiful service.
Before I came on my mission I really didn’t understand the significance of baptism but now after knowing it makes it so much more special. I know that only through baptism we can come to live with our Heavenly Father again and that when we are baptized we covenant to live the commandments and to always remember Christ, that we have taken His name upon us. We felt the spirit really strongly throughout the baptismal service and especially when he gave his testimony at the end. He is a pretty quiet man, especially because he doesn’t speak Spanish very fluently so I was expecting that he wasn’t going to bear his testimony. But he did and it was perfect. He said that he was glad that he had left the bad parts of his life behind and that he wanted to live with God and with his family after this life.
I feel so grateful to be a part of his conversion. The members are being really supportive of him and I think that he is feeling a lot more a part of the ward family. I am so excited for him and to be able to experience the blessings of being a member of the church.
After the baptism I was pretty tired and couldn’t find the energy to talk a lot, so we drove to a place in our area to contact that day while listening to “Yo se que vive Mi Senor”. I learned the importance of meditation that day. I listened carefully to the lyrics and was reminded of Christ’s love for me. I was able to testify with so much more sincerity that night because I knew why I was testifying to the people – because Christ loves them, He died for them and He wants them to partake of the eternal blessings of His Gospel. I was very grateful to have had that experience.
Anyway, I love you all so much and am always praying for you. I know that you are praying for me and that I am being helped so much by your prayers while I am here. I know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true. I’m so thankful for my membership and for the knowledge that I have about its restoration through Joseph Smith. I love you all so much!
Sister Neff
Friday, November 14, 2008
Worthy to Stand.
I will not despair.
I will listen for the Master’s call.
I will be prepared.
I’ll be ready to surrender all.
I will go. I will do,
Be the witness that I promised you.
I will give all that I have
and put my heart in heaven’s hand.
I’ll defend the cause of truth in every land.
I’ll be worthy to stand.
Words by Tyler Castleton and Staci Peters
I will listen for the Master’s call.
I will be prepared.
I’ll be ready to surrender all.
I will go. I will do,
Be the witness that I promised you.
I will give all that I have
and put my heart in heaven’s hand.
I’ll defend the cause of truth in every land.
I’ll be worthy to stand.
Words by Tyler Castleton and Staci Peters
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
First Baptism- sort of.
HI guys!
Well, another week has come and gone. Every weekend I say, wow – tomorrow is Sunday already, or wow – tomorrow is Monday already! I don’t know if the time is going by as fast for you but it sure is for me!
I found out on Saturday that I am staying in my area for this transfer. We were expecting that but you can never be sure until you get the call late Saturday night from your district leader. When we got the news on Saturday that we would be staying here I was happy. Part of me wanted to have a change, just to be able to experience something new, but that night after having heard that we would be staying together here I started to think about what I want to accomplish in the next 6 weeks. I had a feeling come over me, definitely the spirit, telling me that this is Heavenly Father’s will for me to be here for this next transfer. It was a feeling of joy, peace, and excitement knowing that I am going to be here serving the Lord for more time. I have grown to love this area. Also, while thinking about goals/plans with the area I started to think about each street. We have contacted in almost every street almost every house in our area. While thinking about this I got excited again because I imagined the Lord preparing the people in those streets being prepared to here the gospel. What a beautiful experience I had that night when I found out that I would be staying and thinking about the Lord preparing people to hear the gospel like it says in Alma 16:16-17.
We are teaching Richard who will be baptised this Saturday!!! Wow, he has changed so much since we first started to teach him. Even though I taught Carmen and Edwin and was there for their baptism, I feel like Richard is my first baptism. It is a WONDERFUL feeling to be apart of his conversion and to have seen the change in him. I can’t wait to be apart of other people coming unto Christ through baptism.
Hmmm, I’m trying to think of a Puerto Rico enchantment moment…. Oh yes! On Saturday night we ate in the house of a member and their daughter’s family who are also in our Ward. The Elders came late and so while we waited we sang festive Christmas songs. How fun! They have this tradition kind of like Christmas caroling but different that everyone does every year. They get a big group together and go to different peoples houses singing Puerto Rican songs with the guitar and those instraments that you shake to make noise (I don’t know the word ) to sing. But instead of just singing a few songs and leaving they stay there for a while, eat food, party and then move on to a different house. I guess it goes on all night long! We didn’t do that on Saturday but we sung some song s – it was really fun. Really magical to be apart of a different culture.
Also, elections were crazy. We had to stay in after six because of all of the partying. And, its funny the party and crazy caravans are still going on. The Puerto Ricans take every opportunity they can to have a party!
WEll, I love you all so much. I hope everything is going great! I know that Heavenly Father loves all of you so much. Also, just really quickly, we learned about the gifts of the spirit yesterday and about the gift of tongues… mom had mentioned it in her last letter but I know that if we do the work Heavenly Father will bless us. I know that it might seem overwhelming to learn Spanish right now, but as the Puerto Ricans say “poco a poco” or little by little. Keep working on it and it will come. I love you all so so so so much and am so grateful that you are my family and that I can share this marvelous experience with you.
Luf YOwr!
Hermana Neff
Well, another week has come and gone. Every weekend I say, wow – tomorrow is Sunday already, or wow – tomorrow is Monday already! I don’t know if the time is going by as fast for you but it sure is for me!
I found out on Saturday that I am staying in my area for this transfer. We were expecting that but you can never be sure until you get the call late Saturday night from your district leader. When we got the news on Saturday that we would be staying here I was happy. Part of me wanted to have a change, just to be able to experience something new, but that night after having heard that we would be staying together here I started to think about what I want to accomplish in the next 6 weeks. I had a feeling come over me, definitely the spirit, telling me that this is Heavenly Father’s will for me to be here for this next transfer. It was a feeling of joy, peace, and excitement knowing that I am going to be here serving the Lord for more time. I have grown to love this area. Also, while thinking about goals/plans with the area I started to think about each street. We have contacted in almost every street almost every house in our area. While thinking about this I got excited again because I imagined the Lord preparing the people in those streets being prepared to here the gospel. What a beautiful experience I had that night when I found out that I would be staying and thinking about the Lord preparing people to hear the gospel like it says in Alma 16:16-17.
We are teaching Richard who will be baptised this Saturday!!! Wow, he has changed so much since we first started to teach him. Even though I taught Carmen and Edwin and was there for their baptism, I feel like Richard is my first baptism. It is a WONDERFUL feeling to be apart of his conversion and to have seen the change in him. I can’t wait to be apart of other people coming unto Christ through baptism.
Hmmm, I’m trying to think of a Puerto Rico enchantment moment…. Oh yes! On Saturday night we ate in the house of a member and their daughter’s family who are also in our Ward. The Elders came late and so while we waited we sang festive Christmas songs. How fun! They have this tradition kind of like Christmas caroling but different that everyone does every year. They get a big group together and go to different peoples houses singing Puerto Rican songs with the guitar and those instraments that you shake to make noise (I don’t know the word ) to sing. But instead of just singing a few songs and leaving they stay there for a while, eat food, party and then move on to a different house. I guess it goes on all night long! We didn’t do that on Saturday but we sung some song s – it was really fun. Really magical to be apart of a different culture.
Also, elections were crazy. We had to stay in after six because of all of the partying. And, its funny the party and crazy caravans are still going on. The Puerto Ricans take every opportunity they can to have a party!
WEll, I love you all so much. I hope everything is going great! I know that Heavenly Father loves all of you so much. Also, just really quickly, we learned about the gifts of the spirit yesterday and about the gift of tongues… mom had mentioned it in her last letter but I know that if we do the work Heavenly Father will bless us. I know that it might seem overwhelming to learn Spanish right now, but as the Puerto Ricans say “poco a poco” or little by little. Keep working on it and it will come. I love you all so so so so much and am so grateful that you are my family and that I can share this marvelous experience with you.
Luf YOwr!
Hermana Neff
Monday, November 3, 2008
So Sorry, Janice.
Wow, thanks for your emails! I loved hearing about Halloween and everything that has been going on. I laughed out loud here in the library when Ruby said that she thinks that Devin has eaten 20 of her candies. But, it sounded really fun and relaxing with the Chili. I got the package and letters from Mom and Ruby! Thanks so much! The “pun-kin” is sitting in my room as a little décor - well the only décor and its so cute!
For Halloween we had planning [meeting] in the night because we usually have it that day so it worked out great. I put up the decorations and we wore the florescent wristbands and necklaces and I wore the polka dot socks! It made it so much fun! I loved the socks – I felt like I was dressed up as a witch. It was a pretty cute combo – striped shirt, flowered skirt, polka dot sock, brown shoes, and florescent bracelets. I am going to try and print off a picture today if we have time (I have to go up to the city Mayaguez to take my drivers test!) But, it was a perfect end to the day to be able to dress up and have a little bit ‘o fun!
But, wow, this week has been definitely an interesting one. We ran out of miles for October on Monday so had to walk everywhere the whole week. It was pretty rough. Our area is pretty extensive so we could only work the areas that were relatively close to our house. It was pretty hard and pretty draining but by the end of every day we always ended up laughing a lot about something that happened during the day. That has been a blessing - laughter. And it has to do with my moment of enchantment – which this week isn’t so much a moment of enchantment but more of a Puerto Rican quirk. The Puerto Ricans love to talk – and they love to tell you everything. Everything. TMI to the max. Actually, my companion and I always say “Demaciado informacion” which means too much information. I shortened it to “DI”. But, it makes us laugh a lot. People like to tell you about weird pains that they are having or yesterday a young mom convert was with us and she was telling us about her birthing story. Whew. But, I am becoming more enchanted with the Puerto Rican people. I love to serve them.
This past week has been kind of rough, not only just because of the miles but also because of “la obra” – the work – like the missionary work. I’ve gotten discouraged a lot of times about the people that don’t open the doors and about not having success but have had a lot of blessings from Heavenly Father too. My mission president sent us his weekly email this week and it talked about that – about not getting discouraged and always looking at the cup half full. I am usually pretty good about that but wasn’t really this week. Now I realize all of the things the Lord has blessed me with. We found a young dad who is so ready to hear the gospel. He read 3 Nephi 11 and everytime we talk to him I get excited for him to accept the gospel. The last time we did and when he told us that he had read I got into the car and almost cried because I felt so much like he is prepared. We also have found 2 inactive members who aren’t on our list of innactive’s while we were knocking doors and that is a blessing. I could go on but time is running short.
Anyway, I know that the Lord loves us and that He is always blessing us. We need to have faith and we’ll see miracles. I love you all so so so much and am so grateful for you and your words of encouragement every week!
Luf,
Hermana Neff
P.S. We have transfers next Wed! We’ll see what happens! But do you think in your next package you could send my pillow? That would be awesome! And ah, I forgot to think about Chirstmas. I’ll tell you next week!
P.P.S. Thanks dad for doing the CD. I haven’t gotten it but am excited because a girl can only take so much Janice Kapp Perry at a time!
P.P.P.S. Thanks Ruby for the email! I love you so much and love hearing about everything!
For Halloween we had planning [meeting] in the night because we usually have it that day so it worked out great. I put up the decorations and we wore the florescent wristbands and necklaces and I wore the polka dot socks! It made it so much fun! I loved the socks – I felt like I was dressed up as a witch. It was a pretty cute combo – striped shirt, flowered skirt, polka dot sock, brown shoes, and florescent bracelets. I am going to try and print off a picture today if we have time (I have to go up to the city Mayaguez to take my drivers test!) But, it was a perfect end to the day to be able to dress up and have a little bit ‘o fun!
But, wow, this week has been definitely an interesting one. We ran out of miles for October on Monday so had to walk everywhere the whole week. It was pretty rough. Our area is pretty extensive so we could only work the areas that were relatively close to our house. It was pretty hard and pretty draining but by the end of every day we always ended up laughing a lot about something that happened during the day. That has been a blessing - laughter. And it has to do with my moment of enchantment – which this week isn’t so much a moment of enchantment but more of a Puerto Rican quirk. The Puerto Ricans love to talk – and they love to tell you everything. Everything. TMI to the max. Actually, my companion and I always say “Demaciado informacion” which means too much information. I shortened it to “DI”. But, it makes us laugh a lot. People like to tell you about weird pains that they are having or yesterday a young mom convert was with us and she was telling us about her birthing story. Whew. But, I am becoming more enchanted with the Puerto Rican people. I love to serve them.
This past week has been kind of rough, not only just because of the miles but also because of “la obra” – the work – like the missionary work. I’ve gotten discouraged a lot of times about the people that don’t open the doors and about not having success but have had a lot of blessings from Heavenly Father too. My mission president sent us his weekly email this week and it talked about that – about not getting discouraged and always looking at the cup half full. I am usually pretty good about that but wasn’t really this week. Now I realize all of the things the Lord has blessed me with. We found a young dad who is so ready to hear the gospel. He read 3 Nephi 11 and everytime we talk to him I get excited for him to accept the gospel. The last time we did and when he told us that he had read I got into the car and almost cried because I felt so much like he is prepared. We also have found 2 inactive members who aren’t on our list of innactive’s while we were knocking doors and that is a blessing. I could go on but time is running short.
Anyway, I know that the Lord loves us and that He is always blessing us. We need to have faith and we’ll see miracles. I love you all so so so much and am so grateful for you and your words of encouragement every week!
Luf,
Hermana Neff
P.S. We have transfers next Wed! We’ll see what happens! But do you think in your next package you could send my pillow? That would be awesome! And ah, I forgot to think about Chirstmas. I’ll tell you next week!
P.P.S. Thanks dad for doing the CD. I haven’t gotten it but am excited because a girl can only take so much Janice Kapp Perry at a time!
P.P.P.S. Thanks Ruby for the email! I love you so much and love hearing about everything!
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