My own convert

Emmaline write this letter to my mom personally. We wanted to share it in hopes that we can all find some conversion within ourselves. This gospel is all about finding Heavenly Fathers love within our selves and our relationship with him. She is her own biggest convert.

Dearest mother,

It was such a great week here is abbotsford. I feel like I am living in a dream land for missionary work and I am going to wake up back in Vanderhoof.... I am just counting my blessings haha The work here is wonderful and I am really diving into it. Thankfully I dont think about home as much anymore :) Its hard when I have such a crazy family waiting for me at home :) haha But I feel like I am actually a missionary now haha. Sister Dexter and I were just driving down the street the other day and I just looked over at her and was like "Sister Dexter we are missionaries!!" Shes like "Yea 7 months ago we were too" haha

This whole mission thing is literally changing my life!!! Talk about eternal convert. I am becoming my own greatest convert!

I hope you have a good week mom :) I miss you and I love you!!!

CTR

sister emmaline neubert

7 months!

Dearest Friends and Family,

   I can NOT believe I have been gone for 7 months. Some days it feels like 2 weeks and then others it feels like 10 years. But the good days for sure out number the long ones!!!!

   This week we were able to see so many tender mercies from the Lord. On Monday night last week Sister Dexter and I went into this neighborhood that isnt to fond of missionaries. We decided we would give it a try. The people weren't very nice not bad, just stuck in there ways. But as we were walking out of the parking lot this man stops his car and reverses to us. He said he felt like he needed to talk to us! We chatted for a while and he told us that he is odd and that he doesnt believe in drinking alcohol or coffee because he thinks its harmful for our body..... We agreed with him! We met him a few days later for smoothies. But alas he was not in Mine and Sister Dexters boundaries. So we passed him to another net of missionaries. But we feel super good about him!

   We also had the chance to take a less active back to the temple this week! We were so excited!!!!!! Its not very often that missionaries get to go to the temple on there mission. But I have been blessed to go twice in the last 3 weeks! As we walked in we saw our mission president he was joining us for our session! We were in shock and awe! At the end of the session we ran into our mission mom. It was such a blessing. Especially since they go home in 3 weeks :(

   I hope everyone has a great week ! I love you all

CTR

   

Sister Emmaline Neubert

Blessings

Such a great week in the beautiful land of Abbotsford! I feel so blessed beyond belief that I have the chance to serve in this town! They call it the bible belt of British Columbia because everyone here has a huge belief in the Bible! I still dont find it as religious as Vanderhoof. But I will let these people keep believing that they are!

   Last week we had had the chance to go to this beautiful monastery out in Mission. It was such a beautiful place, I felt like I was walking right in the middle of the country side. Oh wait I was!!! There were nuns and priests walking all over the place. We felt kind of awkward being there. Oh well! it was beautiful!

   On Saturday this week Sister Dexter and I didnt really know where we needed to be all of our plans fell through. In the end we ended up at a funeral at our church and it was right where we needed to be. There were only a few members there. Mostly just non members. So everyone was asking us questions about where do we go after this life. Then they would just look at us. BOOM right place at the right time. 

   Then later Saturday night we got invited to another Christian churches bible study bonfire. It was people from ages 20-35 and they just wanted to ask us all about our beliefs. There were about 15 people there and we had the chance to share the first vision and the book of Mormon with all of these people. They just kept asking us question after question and telling us that everything we told them was not what there preacher told them! So they wanted to know the truth! It was awesome!!!!

   Well I hope everyone had a wonderful week this week!! I am just livin the dream up in the beautiful British Columbia Canada!!!

Love you all

xoxo

Sister emmaline neubert

Busy busy week!

This week was great! its seriously so hard for me to remember anything that happened because Sister Dexter and I were so stinkin busy! We found tons of people to teach and set some baptismal dates. The work is just moving so fast that we are running to try to keep up with it! 

   We are teaching a wonderful lady who is from India and she came here for her husbands work and she had an arranged marriage and she makes us Indian food. Its crazy yummy!!!! But she makes it less spicy because us "white" people cant handle the Indian heat!! true true I would probably be in the bathroom alllllll day haha

   The weather here is amazing!!! one problem all I have is black clothing!!! black clothing= sweaty Sister Neubert. Thank heavens I am not in Arizona or something! God loves me so much that he knows I would die somewhere hot and sticky! But I am getting killer awesome tan lines! 

   This week we had a great zone conference. It was held right by the temple. Its just so great down here on the lower mainland because we see so many missionaries all the time! 

   I hope everyone had a great week!

Choose the right!!!! 

Sister Emmaline Neubert

Miracles!

Twas the night of transfers and all through the apartment two sisters were freaking out about a certain phone call. That's right Sister Neubert got transferred! I am now in Abbotsford and my new companion is Sister Dexter. She was actually my companion in the MTC. I was so excited that I would have at least something familiar to me! Its just insane that there are 100 sister missionaries in this mission and yet I went back with her! 

   It was a very bitter sweet goodbye to Vanderhoof. Oh how I am going to miss the wonderful Allreds and the amazing ward! But they are all great ward missionaries that they will do great with the new sisters. So I packed up my bags and said goodbye to the place I called home for 6 months and headed down south to all the rain! 

   Abbotsford is seriously the cutest town ever! Since it rains all. the. time! the trees are covered in moss and everything is green. Basically I feel like I live in a fairy garden all the time! Plus there is people everywhere! They have a wal-mart and a mall!!!!!! (don't worry dad I'm not spending all my money) My new apartment is beautiful. Its even has a fire place :) so now I can for real warm my body up! 

   Miracle story!!!!!! Well if any of you have been reading my email in the last 2 weeks I talked about a man named Ted. He was such an amazing man! The first night I left my old companion Sister Smith called me and told me that Ted wanted to get baptized this weekend. I was in shock!!!! We had only known him for about 10 days. Two days later the Sisters called me and told me Ted had been baptized! I was so excited for him! He is such an amazing man! He really showed me that people are prepared no matter where they are! 

   Funny story of the week. Well Sister Dexter just loves to talk to everyone. I love it! So we were talking to this 95 year old man and he was going off about how much he loved us and he wouldn't let go of my hand. So here I am holding hands with this old guy and then he gets SUPER close to my face. Like no joke maybe 1 inch away. Sister Dexter hurries up and grabs him away. My old friends tried to kiss me. WOOF! Well mission life! Then he told us he never wanted us to leave and to stay with him. Yea we got going pretty fast! haha 

   I hope everyone had a great week this week I am just so grateful for all of the blessing I have in my life! Thank you family for all that you do!!!!!!!!!!!

6 months!

Well can you believe it? 6 months already! I guess time flies when you're having fun! 

   Well it has been another wonderful week in Vanderhoof. Ted our miracle man we found last week. Remember that found a Book of Mormon in the 1970's? yes, well we went and had another wonderful lesson with him this week. We taught him the restoration and he was just beaming the whole time. We kept asking if he had any questions and he had some but mostly he just said "Well the book of Mormon is true, so then Joseph Smith has to be true, right?" we were like YES! It was a miracle lesson. he had already read to Alma in the first week. Then we invited him to church and he came. So after sacrament meeting they needed Sister Smith to play the piano in primary for the day.So we left him with his member friends. By the end of church we just had everyone in the ward asking us who this miracle man was. We were so confused? Eventually we found out he stood up in gospel principles and priesthood and bore his testimony on the Book of Mormon and the truthfulness of it! People miracles do happen!!! Even in Vanderhoof :)

   Teaching has been going wonderfully. We have a big group of people really progressing in the gospel. It might be not on Sister Neuberts time table. But they are coming closer to Christ! 

   Funny story of the week. Sister Smith and I were out finding this week and some storm clouds started to roll in. We didn't think anything of it, we were just going to keep knocking on doors out in the boonies. So we started to get farther away from the truck and it started to sprinkle a little bit of rain. But we wanted to be hard core missionaries and keep going. So by this time we were pretty far from our car. All the sudden BOOM massive hail storm! The hail was the size of probably my pinky finger nail. But it was dumping and falling fast, like little bb gun pellets. So we start running like crazy people back to the car, I have my scarf over my head now so I just look like a bubushka and Sister Smith being slightly blonde for a moment decided to look up and bam she got some right in the eye. So just picture a Russian grandma running down a dirt road with a girl covering her eyes yelling "I have a black eye". Basically we were a sight for sore eyes (no pun intended) Oh the joys of being a missionary!

Well I hope everyone has a wonderful week this week! 

CTR

xoxo 

Sister Emmaline Neubert

Easter

What a wonderful week this has been! The spirit was so alive up here in the north this week! So many miracles!

   To start things off Sister Smith and I were out finding in a super small village outside of our town and we were knocking on some doors. We met an older man named Ted. We introduced ourselves and he said he wasn't really interested. Then he looked down and saw that I was holding a Book of Mormon. He all the sudden got the hugest grin on his face. He starts to tell us a story about how he read The Book of Mormon back in the 70's and that he just found it randomly one day. He never knew what church it belonged too! He ended up loosing it after a couple of moves. He said it was the "most true book I have ever read" Sister Smith and I didnt even know what to say! We gave him another copy and he just went off about the nephites. He also Google searched the Book of Mormon while we were there and we were like oh crap.. because we were guessing tons of anti stuff to pop up. NOT it was all these results on evidence that proves The Book of Mormon! We are going back to see him next week. yes people, miracles happen even up in the north! 

   Funny story of the week. We were out talking to people and this guy was trying to prove to us that God is a different ethnicity to all ethnicities. So he looks at sister smith and says  "I'm Sure you think God is white, but your friend here probably thinks Hes brown" I just look at him like what?? I guess he thought I was First nation.... I'll take it. So now when we going to the reservation we realized that the first nation people only really talk to me because they think I am one of them!!!! so scoot over James Conder, Sister Neubert is coming through!!!!

   Easter was wonderful! Sister Smith and I got a real Utahn dinner thanks to the Allreds!!! I hope everyone had a great weekend. Happy first birthday to my little Porter man! 

I love you all! 

Sister Emmaline Neubert