Hey mom. So this week was really normal. It was a lot of tracting and talking to people. So I don't really know what to say. But yesterday was really cool. We have been teaching this young girl and her brother and had never met the mom. So we went and dropped in on them and the mom was there. We thought she was not going to be interested and skeptical sense it has been 2 random guys coming by and seeing her kids. But she was actually interested and was looking for a church to join to that was awesome. Other than that I don't really know what to say. Nothing special on New Years. We just had to be in at 6 so we just ate popcorn and played games like Yahtzee. No fireworks or anything. So pretty boring. It's crazy how time flys and it's 2017 already. I just got a little over a year. Hope all it well at home. Love y'all 

"Be intentional about why you do what you do. When you understand the why and the motives behind your actions you will accomplish what you really desire"-Unknown 

Elder Neyman

CADEN WILL BE FACE-TIMING US AT 3:45 ON SUNDAY FOR ANYONE THAT WOULD LIKE TO COME SAY HI 😉😃

 Tracting has been so so. Some people want to hear the message because
of Christmas but others say they are too busy with Christmas stuff to
hear us. So I don't know. I don't have the time window yet but I will
let you know by tonight what it is. No I did not get transferred. So
we're going to breakfast with a family and we got dinner with another
family. Besides that we don't know. Why did he get them taken out? And
why did he get surgery? What would she be called if they do get
married? My cousin in law? I was wondering what that last part was
until I read the end of it. That's pretty funny paycen. So this week
was normal. The only weird things were when it went from the high 20s
to 70 degrees in one night then back to the 20s and the next day
getting freezing rain and having our car frozen shut and having to
yank the doors open to break the ice. And giving 5 priesthood
blessings last night to a sick family. So it's been good. I can't wait
to open all the gifts you guys sent me. Thank you so much for them.
Love you all,
Elder Neyman

It sounds like you had a really fun trip. So this week has been weird. It's been in the low 40s or 30s all week till yesterday and today and shot up into the 50s which is weird for December. Then we got a flat tire and we've had a donut on our car for the past few days (we're getting the new one on today). Then we got the cops called on us twice this week. So things have been all over the place. There were some highlights. Like we got to go to a mission tour (pretty much zone meeting with half the mission they had to split it up into two days one for one half of the mission and the other day for the half I was in)Friday and have Elder Jörg Klebingat of the 70 come down and talk to us. It was really good. He told us we need to be masters of repentance before we can teach other people repentance. It was good. We were at the meeting from 8-4:30. We never saw the sun that day. We went in at dawn and came out after sunset. It was weird. Other than all of that it was a normal week. Lots of tracting in the rain. If you want details I'll give them but it will take a while. Hope all is well at home. Love you all. (This morning were at a members house having breakfast and hanging out for p day) and am I allowed to open my package now or do I have to wait till Christmas? 

Here's a quote that was shared during the mission tour

"Silence in the face of such calamity is sin" Ezra Taft benson 

Look up the talk that goes with this it is amazing. It's called Five Marks of the Divinity of Jesus Christ

Elder Neyman

Hey mom. Man I'm jealous right now. I want to go on a cruise! I'm glad that your having a fun tho. I loved the devotional. We got to see it too. Well after we rode 7 miles on our bikes in the 48 degree weather to a members house. But it was good. So this week has been tracting tracting and more tracting. It seems like that's all we did. It made it a little miserable when it has rained every time we go out and it's cold enough outside to see our breath. But you do what you got to do. We had interviews this week so that was good. The only funny I got that happened this week was when we were tracting yesterday and this guy opened and said you got any weed? We said no and he said I'm waiting for my drug dealer and shut the door. It was really weird. I'm really tired from walking so much. We've probably walked like 30 miles this week. Sorry I don't have much for you this week. I'll try to have some funny experiences this week. Love you all. 

Elder Neyman

“You can make every decision in your life correctly if you can learn to follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This you can do if you will discipline yourself to yield your own feelings to the promptings of the Spirit. Study your problems and prayerfully make a decision. Then take that decision and say to him, in a simple, honest supplication, ‘Father, I want to make the right decision. I want to do the right thing. This is what I think I should do; let me know if it is the right course.’ Doing this, you can get the burning in your bosom, if your decision is right. … When you learn to walk by the Spirit, you never need to make a mistake.”-President Marion G. Romney

Only in the south 

                                                 Josh, a ward member

                             Our little Christmas tree

We've been given sooooo much of food! When I got here there was hardly anything in the cupboards. 

It was nice being able to have dinner with them. I don't think they had any weird traditions because it was normal food. They had a lot of pies tho. We didn't stay long because we went to three dinners that night. We were stuffed. My week was good. We gave a lot of service this week. We helped the food bank some more and helped an investigator move some stuff (he gave me a nice jacket because I didn't have an good medium jacket that's not too thin or too big). Then the food bank fed us after district meeting for helping them. Then I got sick. Your probably asking what I got sick with but I honestly can't tell you. It was a bunch of weird symptoms that made no sense. I got like 4 hours of sleep that night which wasn't fun. When we went trackting I was miserable. When we went to dinner the Hermanas were there too and they said I didn't look good and so did the person we were having dinner with so all 3 of them teamed up and mothered me. They gave me Tylenol and made me cinnamon tea. Then the hermanas went home and came back with melatonin and an vitamin c and an oil diffuser to help me. It was nice to know they cared about me and were willing to help. Then the past two days have been finding potential investigators and biking like10-12 miles every day because hey only give us so many miles to drive in the car a month. It's been getting cold too. I had to break out my heavy winter jacket I traded with another missionary for. That's pretty much our week. We have been trackting every day so it's just been a lot of people saying they aren't interested. We've been showing people the video #LIGHT the WORLD it's a really good Christmas video. You should check it out and share it. That's our week summed up. Hope y'all had a good week. Love you

“the Lord can draw a straight line with even the most crooked of sticks.”- unknown 

Elder Neyman

I got this picture texted to me on Thankgiving day from a member out in Tennessee who had Caden and his companion over for thanksgiving and it made my day for sure!! 

Hey mom. Things are going good. Yes I got my new card. Thank you. I do
have some (Pokémon cards) at home but they are packed away in my boxes you'd have to
dig to the bottom to find them. I'm doing good. Just going with the
ups and downs of the work. So this will be pretty short because we
have to email off the cars wifi because our neighbors that we use is
out. I write stories when I get them. And we had some this week
we just don't got a lot of time because we have to keep the car
running to get wifi so I don't want to waste a bunch of gas just
sitting out here but I will write them up this Sunday and send them
next Monday. Does that sound good? And I'm sorry I haven't wrote much.
I do want to write more but I don't know what to write because it all seems 

boring. Hey let jer know he can email me and tell him sorry

if I seem ungrateful for his emails I really like them

Love you,

Elder Neyman

 I got this from Caden's mission president so hopefully if any of you were wanting to send him something you'll be able to do that by December 5.  We can't thank you all enough for all of your love and support of Caden!

Dear parents of our Tennessee Nashville Missionaries,

               

Christmas is a special season for missionaries.  We have many unique opportunities to testify of our Savior Jesus Christ

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               We encourage families and friends to remember their missionaries at Christmas time.

Due to missionary transfers occurring the first half of December many missionary mailing addresses will change.

               

In order to ensure that your missionary receives the Christmas packages and mail that you send,

send them to the mission office,  not to individual missionary apartments.

The mission office address is:

1646 Sunset Road; Brentwood, TN  37027. 

To guarantee that your missionary will receive the Christmas packages and mail please send them to arrive at the mission office no later than Tuesday, December 5^th.

Thank you for supporting your missionary.

Sister Lifferth

Referral Secretary

Tennessee Nashville Mission