#22

Dear family and loved ones,

How are things going? i hope everything is going great because down here in argentina life is like a box of chocolates....sweet and fatning haha. the part about that phrase that says YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOURE GONNA GET is so true....BUT, when we have the help of Heavenly Father, we may not always know exactly what we´re gonna get but we know it going to be really good. a scripture that i really like is enos 1:15-16. we can recieve what we want/need but in the time of Heavenly Father. Oh the scriptures are so good...all of the answers to our questions are in them. side note, thank you grandma cathy for the card for my birthday. Grandpa paul, you got your dear elder box today but havent opened it yet. but....on the side it says treats so you can guess im pretty happy haha. oh, and it says sun screen.....hahaha i love you! i need to take some fotos of my house for all of you to see. but, the houses here are all made of bricks and cinders without insolation. (sorry my spelling sucks...i blame spanish). Ive really learned how lucky i am live in the USA. We really do have so much it is crazy. Iknow a few of you asked me some question but i forgot to write them down to respond to but thats why we have the atonement...to be forgiven hehe. This week was pretty awesome. My comp and i have been working our butts off. we are seeing a lot of miracles here and trying to lift the faith and vision of everyone. Remeber that i love you all. always keep the faith...esspecially in roughs times because miracles are on the way. our lives are like a story....a story of success when we gain eternal life. all success stories need to have challenges or it wouldnt make a good story. so remember when yall have tough times, you are just making your story way cooler and more interesting. it like all the sports hereos. no one want to read a book about a football player that had everything come easy in his life. its the challenges that add some pep in our step. remember to pray for help when needed. i love you all and am thankful for all of your prayers and support.

love elder nobmann riddle#22

future RB at BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY:)

Weekly Letter - 30 Sep 2013

Dear Presidente,
The week of 5 de octubre is finally here and I ́m pumped! Not going to lie, this is one of the biggest trials of faith that has ever happened to me in my mission. Right now Elder Rios and I have 2 people that are going to be baptised 5 de octubre but I know this week we are going to find 8 more people that can be baptised. I have faith in that. The other day I read Enos 1:15-16. I know that Heavenly Father has a plan for us and that we can still reach the goal of 40 baptisms. We are going to make that goal when the time is right for Heavenly Father. When I was younger I lived with my Biological father because he stole my brother and i from our mom. We lived with him for ten years. For all of those ten years my family prayed and fasted for my brother and I to come live with my mom. Ten years is a long time but Heavenly Father had a plan because one day everything changed and door after door after door was opened and my brother and I were able to live with our mom within a month of when the first door opened for us. I know that miracles can happen. Everyone always says that faith can move mountains. If faith can move mountains I know we can baptise 40 people as a district in one transfer. I also know that 40 baptisms is just the tip of the ice berge. These are the last day so....no better time than now to act in our faith. I know there are people here that are ready for the gospel. But I also know that without the help of Heavenly Father we will never find them. The people arent just black and white, ready or not ready for the gospel. A lot, if not the majority, of the people are in the grey. The way to help those people is with the Holy Spirit. I ́m searching for the things in my life I can change so I can always have the help of the spirit. There are miracles waiting for us, but if we dont notice them, we will walk right past them. Thank you for everything and the spirit you and Hna Lovell bring to the mission.

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10 -3/7 10:30 -4/7 Plan - 8/8 

treasure

Dear Family, Oh what a great weak i had this week. every week is great! Just want to throw out that the snow has melted and the sun is doing its thing. Grandma annie i havent read all of your letter but i cant believe you wrote #likeitalot haha. thats what im talking about family! Get up get pumped and get out!!!! Thank you all for you letters the week behind. I felt pumped up and ready to teach the world....or the people in Zapala ( the city im in). I put two pis on this emial. one of my comp and I with 2 huge hambergers from a couple of weeks ago and the other of an elder from my district in the mtc. we are convinced that one day we are going to serve together! So this week was a sweet as sugar. for pday my district bought a bouncing house for a couple hours in the chaple...SOOOO MUUCHH FUNN. my days of wrestling came handy. its safe to say that I man handled just about ever elder in the district that came my way haha. later in the week we had interviews with president lovell...pres of the mission. i loved every second of it. he brings the spirit so stong every time he comes to town. i love every opportunity i get to talk to him. so the other day i was walking with my companion and i started to think about the mission and life and it hit me! ive always love the mission but this week i learned to love it more. i mean how lucky am i to get two years of looking for people to share the gospel so that they can be baptised and receive the holy spirit and live with their family for eternity. its basically a treasure! every baptism is a treasure! and what does every little kid want to do....find buried treasure. thats what i get to do as a missionary...look for buried treasure for 2 years ( 1 and half years). talk about sweentess. that is deffinatly worthy of a SHAKE AND BAKE. shout out to pop pops...THIS WEEK IVE DECIDED TO PRAY TO THE TEENAGE JESUS. hopefully thats not sac religious..... anyways, the mission is great and i love everyone of you. keep doing great things. and for all my little cousins out there. look forward to serving a mission. it is the greatest thing in the world. not going to lie, the thaught of my mission ending one day is really sad. that is why we make everyday count. make sure you all make everyday count. there a big blessings that heavenly father has for all of us. i read jacob 4 the other day. its DE DIEZ! DE DIEZ means something really good or really cool. theres your argentine slang for the week:) have a great week and remember that heavenly father is only a prayer away.

love elder nobmann riddle #22

Weekly Letter - 23 Sep 2013

Dear Presidente Lovell,
It was great to have the entrevistas this past week and to feel the spirit that you and Hna Lovell bring. It was a nice bust for the rest of the week. Right now we are looking for the people the Lord has prepared here in 12 de julio. Elder Rios and I know that we are going to complete our goals for 5 do octubre. This past week we worked every day to retain what we have and find new members. On saturday we invited more than 20 different people to come to church. We were inviting machines! We also saw a big miracle....we found a family of 7 or 8 people. We were able to talk to them about the plan of salv which the mom really liked. They werent able to come to church sunday but it is a great family for the future. Earlier in the week we had a lession with a member who was able to share her testimony about the church and the temple. After the lession she stayed to talk with the family and we didnt think much of it. Sunday we see her and the part member family we taught walking to church together. It was a miracle. She told them that she would pass by for her family so that they could walk to the capilla together. So awesoem! Elder Rios and I both have a vision to baptize here in 12. We found an older carpeta de area that was hidden on a book shelf and found 18 different registros of people that have asisited the church before. We are going to visiit everyone of them amd complete our goals for 5 de oct. As for me, Im pumped up and ready to go! THe other day iI was thinking about how awesome the mission is. Every little kid has the dream of finding treasure and thats what we are doing...finding treasure (baptisms). It is so much fun that we literally get to look for hidden treasure. I love it! Have a great week Presidente. Thank you and hna Lovell so much for everything.

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hola

Dear Family,

thank you all so much for all of the birthday wishes. i loved the box with the cake from the US. I made it for some members of the church so they could try it. they loved it haha. zach, i love the picture you made for me. im going to try to print it off so i always have it. thank you beau and heiders for the letters. also, thank you so much grandma annie. i havent read all the letters you all sent me but i will write back the next week to respond to all of them. Just know that im doing good until i write you all agian. i have faith in my heavenly father and i have my family. oooooo baby i love yall so much. haha. so this week was pretty filled with its ups and downs but i can tell you all the the power of the spirit is real. i really know our savior lives. ohhh. yesterday it snowed like santa sneezed. i felt like an elder in russia doing the lords work. not going to lie, my comp elder rios (dont know if i ever told you i got a new comp last transfer but he´s cool. he´s form chile and has one month less than me in the mision) and i got into a couple snowballfights. in one of the snowball fights we found a family of 8 people. talk about miracles. they told us that they used to not like the mormons but now they dont have any problems haha. i was thinking ¨YES!¨ elder rios and i are teaching a family, fam sanzana, and they are really nice. they are investigators and invited us to eat lunch with them in there house. the 2nd time we were in their house they told us that we should feel proud because only about 2 other people have been inside their house. they told us that they only let people they trust inside. it was really nice. ohhh the pic of o dawg and the boys (sounds like a band haha) was awesome! they are so lucky to get to live in hawaii. man!...im jealous haha. i love you all so much. oh, mom, tell nana im still waiting on a letter from her and skyler! haha

enjoy the pics.

love elder nobmann riddle#22

Weekly Letter - 16 Sep 2013

Dear Presidente Lovell,
This week was pretty darn good. My numbers for the week are 7/7 5/7 6/7 5/7 3/7 8/8. What I ́m trying to work on making sure I ́m staring on time everyday and not 5 min late. I can really feel the spirit so much stronger when I have a powerful personal study and comp study. It helps me feel spiritually juiced for the day! Elder Rios and I tried to call you today to tell you we were late to the pension 2 times this week. We should have found time though. One of the times we were about 10 min late because our ward mission leader told us to go into a house to tell a menos avtive familia we couldnt have a lesson that day. The other was because the leccion went over and we were a min late to the pension. Besides that everything is great. There are big things happening here! We talked with a family of 8 people yesterday and they said we could come back and visit them. Elder Rios and I are doing good. We are working hard and finding a balance. Im doing good. I feel blessed to be a misisonary and only want to give my heart to the Lord. I ́m excited for 5 de oct because I know we are going to lograr the meta of 40 baptisms. It is going to be a great day for us and the whole mission. Oh, and sorry I dont type a huge letter. I dont type really fast. Tenga una buena semana. 

hey

Dear family,

So for starters Niki wrote me an email that we shouldnt write anymore and just focuse on our missions. At first i was really sad but i feel at peace with it. not going to lie, i still care about here but i know heavenly father has a plan. i dont know what will happen in the future with us but its ok. now i can focuse all of my time and become a baptizing machine! In the words of Uncle Beau ¨thats a mission¨. he is so right! when bad stuff happens there´s no need to quite because thats a mission. we are here to go through pain to feel great joy. I got the letters from grandma annie and lacey on sept 7 and i also got my birthday box. I havent opened the box yet, im waiting for my birthdya day haha. but im excited to open it. i havent read your letters you emailed me yet mom but i know they with make me smile....they always do. thanks so much lacey and g annie for the letters. they gave me a bust i needed! 2 days before i got the letters i was thinking how i needed to write and say i could use a letter from g annie but the lord knows my thoughts and one came in the mail. Basically with niki, i dont know really what to say. i sent her an email saying some stuff but idk. Hey uncle beau, if you have a quick second, can you shoot me a quick email? thanks bo bo. Thank you zach for all thepictures. I love seeing you all so happy. zach your pretty darn buff but when you return from the mission ill be twice as buff hehehe;) I love you all so much and thank you so much for your prayers and everything.

Love Elder Nobmann

ps mom and dad, shoot me an email. you always know what to do:)

Weekly Letter - 09 Sep 2013

Dear Presidente Lovell,
Like I always say, there are miracles waiting to happen and heppening here in zapala. It is so great to be apart of all of it. I am so excited for the 5th of Oct! It is going to be a day to remember for all of my mission. Like you said in your letter and the first time we met. Things are changing in the mission. I am super pumped! This week was filled with up and downs and miracles. We had a family attend church which was amazing because they said they were coming but they showed up a little late so werent sure if they really were going to come. OHHH HOW SWEET THIS WORK IS! Zapala is changing for the better and so is 12 de julio.

Our ward mission leader is really feeling the fire and it is great. Elder Rios and I are loving every second and picking each other up in times of need. I ́m thankful for him. As for me, I just got a letter from my girlfriend that we shouldnt write each other anymore. Shes on a mission in england. At first I was sad but I feel at peace, like i can really get down to work. It is a little sad because I really did care for her but that ́s ok. We experience pain so that we can feel joy and happiness. I ́m ready to give more of my heart to the Lord! Thank you for everything President. Hasta 19 de septiembre:)...(para verle).

I was doing this wrong the first few times but now its right. I was forgetting to put the time I woke up for the weeks. 7/7 6/7 6/7 3/7 3/7 7/8 

Weekly Letter - 02 Sep 2013

Dear Presidente Lovell,
Here Zapala we usually have lunch everyday. The members here are really great with feeding us missionaries. This past week was a little different but good. We started off with a a trio because Elder Yañez was still here but it was fun! Elder Rios is a funny missionary. We are going to get along great, which I ́m really happy about. I was a little nervous at first because I didnt know what my new companion was going to be like. I think every missionary feels like that at some point. Elder Rios and I were able to teach a lot of our investigatores which was really good because sometimes their schedules make it hard to teach them. We also found a new family. There is 3 kids and 1 mom, there is no dad in the home. We were able to teach the mom with a member which was nice. Elder Rios and I have faith and high hopes for her and her family. I love zapala. I ́m always going to say it but there are miracles here just waiting to happen. We just neet to keep our vision high, faith strong, and work hard. Elder Rios and I are clicking really well. He has me laughing throughout the whole day. We both have our expectations high for this transfer which is great. I ́m excited to see what the future holds here. As for me, I ́m good. Everyday I ́m trying to become the man and the missionary heavely father wants for me. I ́m scared that I want become that person and I ́ll go home after 2 years and fill like I ́m lacking something. I want to work with all my heart and be the 4th missionary and always have peace about my mission and my life. I ́m working hard to have the help of Heavenly Father so that I can find the families that are ready to receive this gospel. In my head every person is ready to receive this gospel haha. Thanks for everything!
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