Transfer week again! And another plane ride!

Well it is true I am staying in the wonderful land of Vanderhoof! I got a new companion this week her name is Sister Smith and she is from Bountiful Utah she has a cousin from Lehi that I graduated with so we know tons of the same people its awesome!! She has been out for 9 months and is a great missionary! 

   I was so nervous that I was going to get transferred but thankfully God is giving me one more transfer at least here. I dont know why, but I feel like my work isn't finished here yet! There is someone I'm supposed to be helping!!! I guess this is where I just let myself be a tool in the Lords hands. 

   This week was wonderful though, since my companion was being transferred I got to fly down to Vancouver again! Oh how I feel like I am in the greatest area ever, where I get to literally fly somewhere every couple of weeks! its wonderful!!!! When we landed I had the chance to go a small testimony meeting at President Tillmans house and right when I walked in he said "Sister Neubert youve arrived all the way from the north" There was about 10 of us there. Its was wonderful!!!! There was only 2 new missionaries coming in so we all got to be part of the small testimony meeting. 

   I spent the night in Richmond and went to transfer meeting the next day. It was great seeing all of my mission friends I feel like they become my family!! Everyone telling each other all the fun things going on in there areas! I flew back to Vanderhoof the next morning. It was wonderful to show Sister Smith what the north really is all about! I am still the district leader to the wonderful sisters here. The work is getting ready to explode! 

   The pictures below simply is our District battling it out at the bowling ally and sister smith and I flying back to my home land :)

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

CTR

Sister Emmaline Neubert

My new family

Oh how I love this wonderful area, Its really hard and cold somedays. But the amazing people we find every week is such a miracle. Vanderhoof has now become one of my home away from homes!

I just have to rant and rave about how amazing the ward is. They are always so willing to help out with missionary work and send us to people they know. They have become my own little family. We even tell the ward youth what we are going to be wearing on Sunday so that they can match with us :)

   This week was great! We went out to the First Nation reservation (Sai Kuz) and went out finding. They are seriously such beautiful people. (dont worry mom we are super safe!) Those people are just so open to everything. Which is good because its there heritage we are talking to people about!!

   The youth in our ward are getting so excited about missionary work. Its such a blessing to be so close to our youth. They all want to come out with us and since they like us their parents like us. Its a win, win! 

   Its transfers this week. I am super nervous. But I know that wherever God wants me is where I am supposed to be! 

   I hope everyone has a great week! Sorry this email is so short. But I cant even really remember what happened this week. if anyone wants a good laugh and you want to know what song is stuck in my head 24/7 take a look at this :

https://www.lds.org/youth/video/find-our-cousins?lang=eng

have a great week!!!

CTR

xoxo

sister emmaline neubert 

Hello all!

What a wonderful week this has been. I feel like I say that every week. I simply just love learning new things every week and growing so much in the gospel. Did you know Jesus Christ came to the Americas?! Well don't worry I did know that, but still I am always learning haha :)

   This week we did some more travelling for meetings to Prince George and Quesnel. I was so excited when I got to sleep in my bed again! Then we decided to jump right back into work since we have been travelling so much we thought Vanderhoof had gone a whole week without having someone knock on their doors. So we got to work! 

   We had an amazing lesson with two of our investigators Maria and Leonard They are middle aged married couple. For whatever reasons we hadn't been able to stop by for a month since our last lesson with them. So when we showed up out of the blue Friday night her husband quickly got off the phone and they turned off the TV. They talked about how they missed us coming over and they had tons of questions. So maria opens her Book of Mormon and its stuffed full of sticky notes of questions! It was a miracle! we had been trying to get them progressing. But in reality they just needed to be left alone for a while! They have now agreed to come to church! I was just in shock and awe!

   Funny story for the week :) This week I decided it was time to dye my roots. (curse me nasty natural hair color) So we went and picked up a box dye because holy cow dying your hair in Canada is ridiculous expensive!!  So Sister MacMillan went to town. After a few minutes she looks and me and she started to freak out saying "your hair is black!" So I jumped in the shower ASAP. So in the last year I have gone from looking like Draco Malfoy blonde to now Snape black. Then the next day we had a zone meeting. So sister MacMillan and I decided. "Well the Elders get to match all the time, why dont we?" So we went matching to the meeting. All the missionaries got a kick out of that! 

   Sister MacMillan is a great companion. never a dull moment :)

   I hope everyone is having a great week. Choose the right. I love you all! :)

xoxo

sister emmaline neubert

Dream come true

What a wonderful week!!! This week we had the opportunity of being able to fly down to Vancouver and come together as an entire mission. So 300 missionaries coming from every end of British Columbia. From Ferry, Bus and Plane. Thankfully I got to do what I love best and fly down. When our flight ended I told my companion to wait until everyone was off the plane. After we waited I asked the pilot if I could look up to the front of the plane. I explained how I would love to be a pilot someday and how I was going to school to become one before I came out on my mission. He was so excited that he said "well then, why don't you take a seat!" Don't mind if I do! He let me push some buttons and we talked about planes for a second and then he gave a snowbirds pin and a sticker. I felt like a child, oh well. I was so excited!!!! All the other missionaries were slightly jealous! But I was simply beaming!!!!

   It was a wonderful weekend in Vancouver! I thought I had gone all country being up north. But the second they put me around the city streets I remembered I was born to not live in the country!!! Its nice for a time. But I love being around people24/7! I talked with 40 people in an hour down there. That usually takes us 2 days up in Vanderhoof! Oh and there was SO many Chinese people down there. So I got to brush up on some of my mandarin :) I was in heaven! 

   Then to add onto that we had the most wonderful mission conference that night. It was so great to have the entire mission together! We even got to take a mission picture. That's when being short comes in handy!! I was front row and centre! Right behind my mission President and his wife! I also got to see the lovely sister shelley and sister dexter down there. They have become my kindred spirit friends. :)

   The following morning we had the chance to have a mission conference with Elder Christofferson (quorum of the twelve apostles) Bishop Causse (1st councilor in the presiding bishopric) Elder Aidukitis (first quorum of the seventy) Elder Christenson (area seventy). It was such an amazing experience.  I had the opportunity to shake all of their hands. They are such amazing and inspired men. The spirit was so strong and it was something I will never forget. 

   This week was fantastic week and it was a great week to be a missionary! I am so grateful for the chance I have to be a missionary. This gospel is so true and God is truly hastening his work. 

I hope everyone has a great week and I love you all :)

CTR

Sister emmaline neubert

(Emmaline and her MTC companion sister dexter) 

Emmaline and her current comp

Plane ride! 

Happy girl! 

4 months!

   Another wonderful week in the beautiful land of Canada. I cant believe I hit my 4 month mark this week. Who knew that after 3 months time starts to fly?! This week dipped back down into the -25's again and my little fingers feel like they are going to freeze off. Hopefully people wont judge me when I come home with 3 fingers. Then I can finally do a great T-Rex impersonation :)

   Sister MacMillan was feeling better this week so we jumped right back into work. We still wanted to take it a little easy so that her body could rest and heal but she is just non stop all the time that I have to sit down and tell her to rest. Shes just hard core and all. I seriously love my ward so much! they tell me all the time that they love me and they will be sad when the day comes for me to leave. Hopefully that wont be any time soon. I am okay going somewhere new, but only if I can take the ward with me :)

   Funny story of the week. We were over at one of out investigators houses and when we knocked she opened the door and was telling us about how she just got a new dog. Right then the new dog bolted out the door down the street.So of course we all start running down the street trying to get the dog. I live in a logging town, so of course there is forest everywhere. So the dog bolts into the woods. Sister MacMillan without a second thought takes after it. and since that whole "sight and sound" applies I went trudging through the woods too. Thankfully it was mid day so the sun was out. In the end we ended up in snow up to our hips and sister MacMillan was stuck! haha. The dog eventually ran over to his owner and I dug sister MacMillan out of the snow. Its moments like this that make me so beyond happy for where I am serving and for stories like this when I am 90 years old. I will tell my grandbabies about my missionary times in Canada. 

   We saw some amazing miracles in out investigators this last week. We are teaching a couple Amanda and her fiancée Curtis. they are both in there young 20's and they have both been so prepared to receive this gospel (even though everyone I meet I feel is ready to be baptised) They agreed to read the book of mormon and they told us about how they have waiting to find something that works for them. I am just so excited for them. They have had a lot of sadness in their lives and I just want them to know that God loves them.

   A lesson that I learned this week is that people need to be converted and re-converted to this gospel everyday! That it doesn't need to be a Sunday activity. That you should be talking about the gospel everyday of the week and sharing the happiness that it brings you with others. 

   I hope everyone has a great week. I love all of you and I hope you all choose to teach the right!!! 

ctr

xoxo 

Sister Emmaline Neubert

Hello all!

 

 First of all! who knew going on a mission meant all of my friends would be getting married!!!!! Thankfully I have some friends on missions so at least they have sworn there life to live like a nun for awhile so I dont come home the only single person! Okay I will stop ranting :) Congrats to my wonderful kindred spirit friend Jessica Tolman. I wish you and Walt the best!!!!!!! 

    Well the cold snap of -40 has finally left the north! I seriously was about to go and crawl into an igloo and freeze to death. But now its only -10 and I am so happy! 

   This week was a great week for me and a rough one for my companion. She was sick all week so we had to take lots of breaks so that she could start feeling better. So it stunk for her, but it was great for me. I got to do so much studying and catching up on everything! I loved it! 

   My new companion is Sister MaCmillan she is from Canada and is so funny! she has been on her mission for 16 months and is a fantastic missionary. I still my Sister Shelley but its awesome to still grow and learn new things! 

   My wonderful investigator Debbie that accepted baptism is doing wonderful! she has read the entire Book of Mormon! in 2 months!!!!! She sure puts me to shame! the work here is Vanderhoof is still wonderful! even though this is a small town we are always finding people to teach and the ward here is absolutely amazing! I feel like I have my home away from home here! 

   Funny story time :) The 2 wards in our town had a Valentines dance together and tons of non members go and investigators and less actives. So we went and had a blast. Of course we are not allowed to dance (depth of despair) but we got to see all the old people dance the polka and have fun. But as we were talking to the youth I started to hear a rumor going around that one of the boys had a crush on me. haha So basically I am a big deal to the 15 year old boys up in the north. Who knew I needed to become a sister missionary and move to the frozen tundra to make a boy think I was cute. Thats its I'm moving to Canada! haha Nah I love my arctic circle and taco bell. Oh and my family :)

Well I hope everyone has a wonderful week I love you all!!!!

CTR

xoxo

sister emmaline neubert

Changes

Well I am sure you can tell by the heading that there has been some changes up north in Vanderhoof. Sister Shelley got the Transfer call, I am now the District leader and she was moving down to the warm and sunny island! We were freaking out, we didn't want to leave each other but I knew my kindred spirit Sister Shelley needed to spread her wings and fly to a new area!

    So then it turned into madness trying to pack all of her belonging and stuff them into my suitcases. But we finally got everything ready to go all we needed were flight plans down south so I could pick up my new companion. So we get to the day that we are supposed to fly out and the AP's call us as we are getting ready to leave out apartment and tell us that Sister Neubert is no longer flying down. We died! So we scrambled to get all of her belongings to fit.  Too bad sister Shelley loves to read and had to leave behind some books. Eventually we got everything to fit and I had to send my little mission mother on her way. It was like saying goodbye all over again at home. It was horrible. So I spent the next 3 days with a temp companion that got left behind also. It was kind of nice because we just combined both of our areas and come up with a game plan!

    Eventually I got my new companion and she has been out for 16 months and seriously so funny! We have only been together for 3 days but I have to really try to focus because I could just talk to her all day long! Oh and she is a real Canadian. :)

   Vanderhoof is doing great it was a really crazy week having 3 different companions and trying to come up with a game plan when I was so used to my trainer helping me with everything. I guess I need to put on my big girl pants (skirt) and learn!

   I am super nervous to be a district leader! All of the sisters have been out for 6 months or 16months. Its insane, and I am over here like "oooh I just got trained" But the Lord has a plan for me and so I am just going to let him shape me into whatever he wants!

   I hope everyone has a great week in nice warm weather. Don't worry its only been -40 this week!!!! So we have had to do a lot of in and out visits because our little toes would freeze off if we stayed out all day! My new companions first day she literally thought she was going to die! she had been down on the island so it was like +6 when she left only to come to -40. She thought her whole body had turned into a sheet of ice! So I taught her how to dress warmly!

I hope everyone has a great week. God loves you

CTR

xoxo

Sister Emmaline Neubert