Hello family!!
I'm going to try to make this a better email then the
ones that I have been sending lately. It was a such a crazy week this week and
ended with a bang! John got baptized!! It was such an amazing day but before I
tell that story I will start back at the beginning of the week.
Monday, we had p-day. It was our district p=day and we
just played a bunch of games and ate lunch at the church. After p-day we went
out to work and we did a golden hour in hopes of finding someone. Well, we
knocked and knocked and finally we came to this cute mint green house and I was
determined that this was the house we would find someone to be baptized. This
cute little old lady answers the door and we start to teach her and she is like
"are y'all Jehovah witnesses?"
We say no and and with a big smile on our face we say "we are from
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!" The lady just says
"even worse.." And then slams the door in our face! Haha it was probably
the funniest moment ever!
On Tuesday we went out for the night and we started
street contacting by the hospital. Well, we met this man named Santos who we
started talking to and he spoke zero English. This made it a bit tricky but we
managed to get his number. Luckily I remembered that much Spanish. Well at the end of talking to him out of no where he just
learned over and gave me this huge hug and before I could react I realized I
was getting a kiss as well... Talk about awkward! I just wanted to die!
On Wednesday we went to the Mandarin district meeting!
That was so much fun! It was so good to be back in my first area again. After
district meeting all the elders and sisters went to this Mexican restaurant and
ate lunch! It was yummy and fun! After that we had a trade off with the YSA
sisters! Talk about a fun trade off! I went with Sister Ward and she is just
the sweetest sister ever! It was fun!
We found some new investigators and taught some awesome
lessons. We taught John to finish up all of his lessons for baptism.
Our trade off continued on to Thursday. It ended with a
bang. And when I say that I mean literally. As we were driving to meet the
other sisters to trade back we found out they got in a crash! Talk about ending
a trade off on an awkward note.. We had to sit around for about an hour waiting
for the cops to come. And then we had to fill out a bunch of paper work.. It
was a long afternoon. Thursday night we went out with one of the young women
and we had some more amazing lessons.
On Friday Sister Ruesch and I realized that we have to
give a training on Tuesday in missionary leadership conference and we had
nothing. So we decided to take our lunch time to started it. Well about 10
minutes into it we got a call from one of the sisters who was upset and in
tears and was having a bunch of problems. So we ended our lunch then and drove
straight to their apartment to have a companionship inventory with them and to
solve the problem... Talk about awkward! We ended up having a 2 hour
companionship inventory and talk all their problems out. It was super awkward.
After that we went to the mission home and we started making a PowerPoint for
our training that we still hadn't written. So we made a power point and then we
rushed straight to the church to meet John and president for John's baptism
interview. Happy day, he passed!
Saturday we ran around like chickens who had their heads
cut off getting things ready for the baptism. That afternoon we had interviews
with President Craig. I love interviews. Mine usually go about like this. He
asked me how my family is. I usually answer in one word of good. He asked me
how I am, I usually reply the same way. We talk about my past companion. Yes, I
talked all about Sister Olsen and how much I miss her and love her. He told me
how awesome I am doing at being a sister training leader. He told me I need to
do a trade off with another sister who is struggling. And then left me with a
prayer. This interview lasted a total of 10 minutes. Most
missionaries are in there for at least 30 minutes..
After my interview it was
time for John's baptism. The baptism was amazing! John was just beaming and
glowing. He has completely turned his life around. He went from doing drugs and
partying all the time to checking himself into rehab and starting his journey
to turn his life over to God. We taught him and he loved everything and
believed it all. His cousin came to the baptism and cried the whole time
because the spirit was so strong. She loved it and so did John!
Sunday was a day of miracles. John got confirmed! He got
his dog back so now he won't be lonely and we worked hard and accomplished so
much!
So starting on Sunday night for our goals we still needed
3 new investigators, 3 other lessons, 1 baptism date and, 1 more progressing
investigator and 1 recent convert or less active lesson. So we prayed and followed
the spirit and we were able to accomplish all of that! Heavenly Father just blesses those who work hard!
So today we had a sister's pday. It was a lot of fun! We
still have not written our training but hey, we love waiting to the last minute
to do things.
I hope y'all have a good week! Mine is going to be crazy
busy again. We have MLC where we will give our training tomorrow
morning. We then have a trade off right after that with Sister McGregor and Sister Rigby! I'm so excited for that. We trade back from that on Wednesdays
and start another trade off where I will be going to the Mandarin area for a
day to help them because they are struggling. And then when we are done with
that we have a trade off on Friday with another set of sisters. Talk about busy!
But it will be great!
Anyways,
Love you all! And miss you so much!
Love,
Sister Webb
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