sea fire

Dear family,

Im only writing to mom, dad, and zach in this letter...and of course jackson. First, mom that is really scary what happend to you but i know everything is going to be ok. the last monday i could feel satan working on me before i wrote and read you letter. he was trying to make me feel like something really bad happened wth yall and tried to fill me with fear. but, the spirit has more power and i felt peace. which is crazy because all this happened the morning before i read your letter about the seisure and your stress. thank you for telling me because now i know what to say to yall and pray for. what i want all of you to read is mosiah 24. verses 9-11 are abouts trials, 12 is prayer, 13 is responce, 14 is reasone, 15 is about patience, and 16 is help from heavenly father. the people in this chapter were doing everything right but still reeived trails. before you read chapter 24 you all should read chapter 23 also...especially chaptter 23:21-22. it talks about when we do things right we still are going to have trials to test our faith and patience. i want to tell you all dad told me. dad told me that there is nothing in my life that hasnt come without tears of trial and he is so right. but, the same applies to our whole family. all of use have had to stuggle first before we received our blessings. so why would that change? its not going to change because our family has a special plan for us. just by reading zachs pat blessing and my own, i know our family has a purpose more than just being here on earth. heavenly father is preparing us by fire because these days are the last days. there is a scripture that says alma felt great pain but after felt joy equal to the pain he felt. that is because there is opposition in all things and we cannot feel more joy than we can feel pain. that is why we had the trial with eric....because it was to prepare zach and i to be instuments in the lords hands in the mission field, and for you and dad to obtain your dreams and desires, and for our family as a whole to helpthose in need. i know everything is goiing to be ok. never forget to turn to prayer in times of need and know im praying for yall. the spirit is so real! our family has a very special purpose to build up the kingdom of God...and im not saying that to be pridefull or things of that sort. oh and im all down to live in tennesse. after living in atlanta ga imm all down for the southern life haha. also ethan and jared my friends from byu live out there. zach, im so excited for you mission call! jackson you a such a great example for me. keep reading your scriptures. mom and dad i love you so much! dad our music is going to get big, always remember the blessing you received and never settle or give up. mom the spirit and help your body heal and have strenth. i love you all so much and am excitied to read your letters. i hope this letter fills you all with hope for the future and puts a smile on your face. 

Love Elder Nobmann Riddle #22

Weekly Letter - 28 Oct 2013

Dear Presidente Lovell,
This week was two thumbs up for el reino del Señor! Elder Ashworth saw some great miracles in our area. One of them is named Angelica. Angelica{s family is all members and her brother served a mission about a year ago. The first time I met her she told us that she didnt want to be baptized but likes to attend the church . In the past few weeks that has changed to the point that she has the desire to be baptized. Elder Ashworth and I put a fecha with her friday but in the night she told us she didnt want to be baptized anymore. We were able to have a lesson with her brother sunday in the capilla and she prayed and felt that she needed to be baptized. She has always known she needed to be baptized but had fear. It was awesome that she received an answer because she has had a hard life. She live in an abusive relationship for 9 years with her ex boyfriend and always talks about how she feels an empty space inside of her that cant be filled. It is so great that we are sharing the thing that she wants and needs most in life. I love the church! Elder Ashworth and I are doing good. We are finding new people to teach and need to plan well so that we can teach them all effectively. Elder Ashworth stuggles with spanish still but has no fear to say things wrong...its awesome. As for me, Im doing good. I love villa ceferino and hope that I can have more time to work here because there are so many miracles happening and cant right them all in this carta. We are receiving a good amount of help from the members which is really making a difference in the work. Have a great week. Thank you for everything!
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que dices tu

dear my beloved and oh so virtous familia,

how is life going up in the U S OF A? things donw here are going great. im loving the mission. im loving the trials. im just loving life. so i planned a little better this week to write you more. i hope you all love the pics. one of them is pday bowling. and i must say that i bowled my best score ever to finish off with a 132....oh the tender blessings of serving the lord. it was fun jaja. oh, and jaja is the haha of latin america if yall have wondered why i use that. sorry for not writing a ton of letters to everyone. in the usa it was so much easier to send letters. here you have to take the letters to the mail place which is usually in some obscure place out of our area...im trying but just know i love all your letters, emails, and prayers. Side note for zach....you need to look up two talks and read them, THE 4TH MISSIONARY, and HOW TO BECOME A CONSECRATED MISSIONARY BY something CALISTER. those will help you get ready for the mission. they are really good. paul toala, you should read them too! so here in villa cerefino it is the city and a lot different than my last area. things are a lot faster here and i love it. oh before i forget. you are a stud muffin zach. thank you so much for your letter. i loved to here about the experience with skyler. tell him im so proud, pumped, jazzed, hyped, and all the above for him...also i love him to death. jackson, what are you going to be for halloween? You need to plan it out my bro so that you can look good haha. that goes for all my little cousins...choose now if you havent because i want to see pics of you all from halloween. so this past week was good. being a trainer is a whole knew world and im learning so much about my own faults its crazy. haha i have a long way to go to become like the savior. but it is good. this morning we had a really emotional conversation about how his family lifebefore the mission wasnt the greatest. i felt gratefull that i was able to be the one to be there for him. something really crazy this week was we had a lesson with a man and is girlfriend. they are like 50 but no one here gets married. the girlfriend wants to get married so she can be baptized but the man doesnt want to. just about all their kids are members and he never like talking with the missionaries. but, hes changing because now he is talking with us and participating in the lessons. yesterday we invited him to pray with us which he has never done with other missionaries. we got on our knees and he gave a great pray and started to cry. it was great to see the power of prayer woring in his life and we will see what happens in the future with that family. the point is that there is true power in prayer. dont ever forget that faith and prayer is like a one two puch combo from heavenly father, jesus christ, and the holy spirit. this church is so true and im so pumped to be a servant of the lord. the work is rough but nothing worth while ever came easy. FATIQE (cant spell lo siento) MAKES COWARDS OF US ALL. if we apply this quote with the gospel it is so true. we need to prepare ourselves for the game by reading the scriptures, praying, and fulfilling our callings so that nothing can bring us down or stop us from vistory. i love you all. 

love elder nobmann riddle #22

Weekly Letter - 21 Oct 2013

Dear Presidente Lovell,
the zone conferance was a great spiritual charge for the week. This past week in Ceferno was good. We are still on an uphill climb to complete all of our goals but its a fun journey. The investigadores we have right now are doing good but we need to do better with finding the right people to hermanarles. The other day we had a great experience with a menos active lesson. We shared a scripture with a family that had a less active daughter. We invited her to read the verses but she couldnt finish because she felt the spirit touch her heart. So i read the rest of it for her and when i looked up everyone in the family had tears in their eyes. The father of the family shared his testimony which brought the spirit even stronger. wow it was a great experience. It is truly like it says in the blessing of south america...the people here will be a

great strength for the church. hurrah, hurrah, hurrah for israeal! im learning so much from elder ashworth. he really is a great missionary and im greatfull to teach with him. he is stressed with the language but i keep telling him it will come. the 3 things that i will work on this semana are sea mejor with the regla de 4 4 2 and really give all my effort in that. also, show more love for my compañon so that we can teach with the spirit even more. I also want to work on starting my studies exactly on time and not a couple min late. Thank you for everything. Have a great week!

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new area

dear loved ones,

i think i need to do better about time management so that i can write you more. but this week was pretty awesome. ihave my new comp who is a gringo...white person..names elder ashworth from idaho. he is my trainee and cant really speak spanish all that well but thats all good. soemtimes people here think im from argentina so i guess im speaking pretty good. somedays i speak better than others jaja. oh the pics below are with my trainee and sister judd who knows aunt heidi and uncle beau. she lives in lodi and was in beaus seminary class...right on haha. i met her at the bus stop and i was pumped when i found her beacuse aunt heidi told me that there are a couple missionaries here that they know. the other pic is just out side my house. my new area is huge becasue its in the city. SKYLER GOT BAPTIZED??????? thanks for sharing just one sentance about that with me mom haha love you. i am so pumped! i was telling so many people about how my cousin was getting baptized all week. can you send me his email becauese i really want to write him. Man!!! im so pumped hehe. when am i going to get the pat blessing of coach zach? and what is the update with his mission? Oh, thank the whitakers for their letter...they are so awesome. things i need.....peanutt butter....always peanutt butter haha. no but if yall want to send be some of the CELESTIAL BUTTER oh i mean peanutt butter i would love some. oh, i got your letter G paul and I´m working hard and am pumped that you love your ward. i love all of you and just know this week was pretty darn good. i will plan better next week and write yall first to have more time. to all those that have had birthdays...happy birthday:) 

Love Elder Nobmann#22

house

finally some pics of my new house. i love you alll. mom, can you send me also the email of coah b, senora moffat, jason, orion, cyrus, and mr vinson. that would be sweet. oh and a family calender. im lovin the miss. oh go look at jeffery mortermers facebook becasue there is a pic of me and a guy that served in the same miss and jeff. have a great week. love you 

Weekly Letter - 14 Oct 2013

Dear Presidente Lovell,

I have one week officially in Villa Ceferino and I love it. It is so much bigger than Zapala but that just means so much more people that are ready to be baptized. This past week we didnt do so well with member presents because I was still trying to get used to the area and who we are teaching but in weekly planning we talked about what members can help our investigadores. The work here is great and I ́m excited for this week because Im a little more settled in. Elder Ashworth and I are getting along good and he is trying his best with his spanish. I ́ve never seen someone study spanish as much as he does. He has flash cards that he is always using in the streets to practise. He has a pretty good understanding of the area but we still have our map with us at all times haha. The addresses here are pretty crazy but I ́ll get used to it. We were able to find 6 new investigadores this week. 2 of them, Victor and his girl friend Daniela, are going to have their first child any day now. Perfect time to bring the gospel into their lives. We found them by walking by their house and talking to them about the church. Great things are happening in the mission. I still have the fire inside of me from 5 de oct and I want to keep forever. The mission is so much fun when our days our filled with work; looking for people or teaching people. I really do love it here. Every change is a little hard at first because its something we ́re not used to but it is a perfect oportunidad to help us grow into the missionary Dios wants. Thank you for everything. VILLA MARAVILLA.
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I was putting 1030 for comp study idioma but learned it is for if we went to bed at 1030. It is the correct info now. lo siento 

transfers

dont have a ton of time but this week was pretty darn sweet. i had a baptism named lucas. he has 10 years and is a stud. saturday my district a baptisims altogether which was really fun. the prs of the mission came down to watch...so cool. this week is transfers and today i leave for my new area in Villa Ceferino which is in the city of Neuquen. I want to throw a huge thank you out to grandpa paul who sent me a jar of peanut butter....i ate the whole thing within a week (i shared a little with friends). it is basically heaven in a jar. I think there is a walmart in my new area so ill be able to buy some more peanutbutter....i pray! Mom the food here is basically pasta, italian, bread, more bread, meat, sausages that have no meat just blood from an animal jaja( it isnt half bad), facturas (bread with sugar stuff on it. its a treat...i love them but i try to stay clear because it is addicting and fattning jaja). Oh soemthing crazy is this transfer I´ll be traing a new missionary. I hope i dont train a gringo (a WHITE person) jaja. I´m all about those chilano comps jk. Hey superstar jackson, i learned that your football number is 13 so in honor of your beastlyness on the football field Ive added more to my rountine of workouts in the morning. every morning i at least do 13 handstand pushups, 52 pushups, and 200 situps. its all about self mastery. I hope you all enjoyed general conference. I loved every second of it, annnnd, i watched the whole saturday session in spainsh....aahh yea:) I love you all and thank you so much for the cartas g. cathy and hno baker. Zach and jack....love you both. keep working hard mentally, physically, and spiritually. its like the famous quote that i have below in blue from one of my favorite football players;) (jack, youre my other favorite football player). que capo que son mis hermanos cheeehoooo

Love Elder Nobmann#22

Weekly Letter - 07 Oct 2013

Dear Presidente Lovell,
General Conference was amazing! This week was amazing! It was so great to see you 5 de Oct for the baptisims. Elder Rios and I had a week of none stop work but it was great. I ́ve learned a lot of great things while serving here in Zapala and Im gong to miss some things but I ́m ready to go to Villa Ceferino and continue the work over there. I am more than confident that Elder Rios is going to be a great trainer and work miracles here in 12 de Julio. Something really great here in 12 de julio is the family Sansana who is investigating the church but want to be baptized. The only thing they need to do is get married (and the husband needs to divorce his ex). It has been so great to see there progression with keeping comitments. When people ask them if they are members they always respond, for now no but we are going to be. Everytime I hear that I get pumped up. They are going to be a strong family for the branch, especially because hno Sansana was a catholic missionary at one point in his life. This family was a ref. so I know that there is power in receiving and contacting references. I ́m really excited to know a new area and take what I ́ve learned this transfer to Villa Ceferino and continue to learn. I ́m grateful for the church and I know Thomas S. Monson es a prophet on the earth today. Thank you for everything. If there is anything I can do for you of Hna Lovell let me know.
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