9 months

Oh how the time has flown! I can not believe that I have been gone 9 months. Where did Halloween, Christmas and July go? time is just zooming right along! 
   Where to even begin this week has been wild and crazy. Well for starters I got another new companion. go figure, I move around a lot. Her name is Sister Mathialagan. She is from India. She is the sweetest little thing ever. She has been on her mission for 6 months and this is her first time ever going outside of India! She is a convert of 3 years and has the biggest fire burning testimony. Also she speaks 4 languages and the Indian people here just love here! I am so blessed to serve with her!

   This week has been crazy. We had a baptism this Sunday. It was super last minute. We started teaching Monique 3 weeks ago. She received amormon.org card and checked out the website and requested a book or mormon. She was later passed to us because we are the Vancouver YSA missionaries. She is amazing and truly wants to come closer to Christ. She was prepared for baptism in 3 weeks  So we were running around like chickens with out head cut off trying to finalize everything. By the time we were ready to have her jump into her jumpsuit we realized she didn't have a shirt to wear underneath. So of course I take the shirt off my own back and let her wear it. Tha'ts why I am wearing my blazer buttoned in the picture below ;)  We finally had everything all figured out and then the water in the font was scalding hot. So we had to run the ice cold water for a second and have some of the elders grab some ice buckets and throw it in. In the end Monique was baptized! I am so excited to see her progress in this gospel! She is going to thrive !

   Such an amazing week this week we are just finding people like mad. Mostly Indian people :) I hope you all have a wonderful week and I love you all so much!!!

CTR 

Sister Emmaline Neubert

Time

I cant even believe that I have been in the Vancouver YSA for 6 weeks now! How the time has flown. I never want to leave this area ever. I cant believe its the middle of July. I just never even thought of being a missionary in the summer time. Time is just flying by!

   This week has been a crazy wild one so I hardly even remember whats been happening. Thankfully I keep an amazing journal! I got a hair cut, bye bye 4inches of hair... The lady didn't speak English so I just told her a trim. Oh well! its hair, it will grow back. 
   We also had some amazing miracles happen this week. So Sister Hale and I love to try new places to eat food and also go out with recent converts or investigators for dinner or lunch. Also Sister Hale is on a crazy healthy diet for her health and healthy food is expensive. So of course we... ran out of money. Our branch was so amazing this week! They took us out for lunch and then they bought us groceries. The YSA is amazing!! We were so stressed about that. But the Lord always provides. 

   I went on an exchange this week to Coquitlam. It was awesome. I was with Sister Dahl and it was so crazy because I met her a year ago and we went out to lunch and just talked about how excited we were to go on missions and now look 1 year later and we are legit missionaries. 

   Also yesterday there was a girl at church I didn't recognize so I went up and said "hi" She was a member and just finished an Alaskan cruise and she was from LEHI UTAH! yea I flipped out for a second. We knew tons of the same people. Its a small world! Church was amazing as usual. We had 5 of our investigators come to church! YSA is just booming right now. I love it!

   Well I hope everyone has a wonderful week this week and keeps choosing the right!!

CTR

Sister emmaline neubert

Hello

Oh what a week it has been. It has been in the 80's all week mmm mmm mmm my feet sure do have amazing tan lines :)

   I had the amazing opportunity to meet President and Sister Burt! They are seriously so adorable! There big focus right now is on unity! Its amazing to see what the changes are in the mission. My last mission President was super strict on Elder/ sister relationships. We seriously weren't allowed to talk to the elders! But with this new mission president he wants us to have the same purpose! The best way I can compare it is that its like I have been in an all girls private school for the last 8 months and then I was thrown into public school!!! Its crazy. I never want to date again! So much anxiety! But there is SO much more unity! I love it!

   We are still working with some amazing people! They all have there own problems and its insane to see the atonement work through there lives and see them truly change! This gospel brings so much peace and happiness to people!

   I hope everyone has a wonderful week this week and thanks so much for all the prayers going out to my little nephew Arland! He is doing a lot better this week! I love you all!!!

CTR

love

Sister Emmaline Neubert

21

Oh what a week this has been!!! So many things happenening. First off we started the week off with a bang! I turned 21! We went to Granville Island and we ate ice cream and a lovely branch member took me out for dinner. I got octopus! mmm it was amazing. 

   Canada Day was amazing! We taught an amazing lesson to Emily and Monique. they are rockstars and have a baptismal date for july 27! We finished the day up with going finding downtown Vancouver when the parade was going on and we talked with so many people it was amazing!  Our recent convert Heidi joined us for the occasion and she was on fire! She just kept going off about who we should talk to! Every person she said that about actually wanted to learn more! man, she was a better missionary then me! We love taking her out!!

   We are teaching so many different people right now. Their are so many people from all over the world here! In Sacrament meeting we have people from all over the world! So its awesome when me meet someone from anywhere and we have someone in our branch that is already from there! I'm telling ya YSA is a missionaries dream land!

   We also got a new mission president this week! President and Sister Burt are amazing!!! They are coming into this mission with there badges on and ready to work! Its awesome! We have already fallen in love with them as my new mission parents and yet i have only shaken there hands haha

   I hope everyone has a great week!!!! If everyone could also please keep my nephew Arland in your Prayers he is having some health problems/seizures that they are trying to figure out. Everyone have a wonderful week!!!!

love you all

love Sister Emmaline Neubert

My BIRTHDAY! I feel older!

Words can not even express how awesome of a week I had this week!!!
   Well for starters I had the chance to go an an awesome tour of Vancouver last Monday! Oh how I love being in the city! We tried a bunch of street food and saw the sights and even.... walked on the beach!!!!!! Thankfully no one swims up here so we are allowed to go on the sand! We saw the Olympic sights. Now I have seen them in Utah, China and Canada. World traveler what can I say!

   This week was so wonderful we are teaching a 23 year old from Kenya. his name is Philip. He is so cool! He wants to come closer to God. He came to church and loved it. He handed over all of his black tea to us! Plus he is coming to FHE tonight. He has a baptismal date for July 27 :)

   Another Awesome Lesson this week was a girl named Taylor. She has been taught by Elders forever! She felt like they were being super aggressive. So she disappeared for a while. Then we found her and she wanted to be taught again! She has read the bible 5 times and the Book of Mormon once. (Shes a journalist) We had the most spiritual lesson with her that she wanted to have that spirit with her always!!! Boom Baptismal date for July 27th.

   We have been teaching the most amazing people right now! I love it here. YSA is the promised land. They are so willing and open to trying things out! I love it! We also had another mini missionary with us this week. She is a convert of 2 months and is so cool! She did awesome!!

   Best part of the week though. Heidi got baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its was such an awesome experience to be part of her conversion and actually be there for someone I taught to get baptized! She is so awesome!!!!!!!

I just love being a missionary and seeing peoples lives change all around me. Even my own!!!!

I hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July!!!!! Dont worry I will be wearing red,white and blue that day!! :)

love you

Sister Emmaline Neubert

Transferred!

So its true. I have officially moved to the promised land!!!!!!!! Vancouver YSA is where its at!!!!!! I cover so much area over here. I love my new area. I love the branch. I love my companion!!!!!! its the best of both worlds!!!!! 

   The branch is so cool. Almost everyone is converts. They are all from Europe, Asia, south america and Australia! Everyone is so welcoming and nice. Its going to be awesome getting so many kindred spirit friends here!

   I am currently learning "hello, we are missionaries from the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" in Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish and Korean! I for sure dont have the same language skills as mi padre. But hey I am trying to have the gift of tongues :)

   The YSA branch has had 30 baptisms so far this year in this branch. It was so cool on Sunday to have the Relief society lesson by a girl that has only been a member for 6 months and then Gospel Principals was given by a guy that has only been a member for 3! Plus the topics were on the priesthood and the 12 tribes of Israel! These people have been so well prepared its insane! 

   We are currently teaching the cutest Asian girl named Heidi. She is so spunky and bakes us cookies all the time! Right when I met her she said "sorry if i give you diabetes, I just love to bake" Dont mind if I do! We moved up her baptismal date to this friday! She is so awesome!!!!

I love it here so much! I thank my Heavenly Father every night for sending me to YSA. They are my people!!!!!!

I hope you all have a great week this week!!

CTR

love

 Sister emmaline Neubert

My personal address is now:

 5610 Gilpin st.

Burnaby BC

V5G 2H9

Canada

ps my birthday is june 30th.... just saying....

Transferred again?!

Such an amazing week Sister Dexter and I have had. To start things off we had a little phone call a day early last night. Sister Neubert is going to Burnanby and I will be in the YSA ward!!!!! I am so excited! Its going to be so much fun!  I leave on Thursday!

   This week was a great week. I had the chance to teach a lesson in Mandarin. Okay actually just sit there and let the other missionary teach. haha Winnie is from the same place I lived in when I was living in China. So we talked about things around Zhongshan! I felt like my dreams had come true! We also had two people come to church with us this week. One was a Mother of 2 kids and of course in Gospel principals they talked about the word of wisdom... I dont think shes coming back. The second person that came was a young not so bad looking chap named Eric. He even had all of his teeth and a drivers license!!! He is from an anti church though and just wanted to see if we were as crazy as his preacher said. We will see what happens with him.

   Funny Story of the week. Sister Dexter and I walked up to this door and there was a note sitting on the front door step. It reads "I have gone to the gas station down the street to go poo" We were laughing so hard!!!!!!!! Thanks to whoever left us that message! Life of a missionary!

   I am going to miss this lovely land of Abbotsford. Its so beautiful! But I am SO excited to get started on my new adventure! 

Happy Fathers Day to my main father figure. The man that goes by the name of David Neubert. Thanks for getting married and having me!!!! I'm kind of a big deal. 

Love 

Sister Emmaline Neubert!