Hello family!
Sister Clay and I have started to transform Hendricks
into the promise land! It has been such a good week! This week we were able to
find 7 new investigators. We did 7/7 golden hours. And accomplished 7/9 on our
key indicators! This is 100 times better then our last week when we reached 1/9
on key indicators and 5/7 golden hours and like 2 new investigators. This place
is on fire!!
Let me just tell y'all about all the great things that
have happened here this week! Monday we didn't do to much. Had dinner with the
Murray's and they fed us seafood rice casserole.. It was interesting.
After that we just knocked doors the rest of the night.
On Tuesday we had such an awesome day! We taught 5
lessons, had 3 different members come out with us. And we set a baptism date
with Jerry! We had a drop lesson with Deanna and Zelma. It was kinda awkward.
We followed up with them on how they were going to quit smoking and Deanna had
a melt down and basically refused to sit in the same room as us. So it made it
for an easy drop lesson. We just excused ourselves and went out finding for
some elect people! We went to this less actives house with Sister Cano and it
was awesome! So this member had been going to a Baptist church and wanted to
know the difference between our church and the Baptist church. We were able to
teach her the restoration and read the intro to the Book of Mormon with her and
by the end she said she wants to get back to going to church! Reactivation here we come!
We also had a member present with our investigator named Jerry and we
were able to set a date for October 16th with him! The miracle with that lesson
was the fact that his wife sat in on the lesson as well! So Jerry's wife
basically has hated us since day one and hates when we call or stop by but she
sat through the whole lesson and we invited them to come to dinner on Saturday
night with us and a member and they both said yes!
Wednesday we had zone meeting. It went really well! I
gave a training on how to help our investigators to gain a testimony of the
Book of Mormon and how important it is that we have a knowledge of the
scriptures and the importance of memorizing/ponderizing them. It went great!
Sister clay and I also had the privilege of doing to role plays in front of the
whole zone... Talk about intimidating! We stressed about it all week and role
played it once the night before but let me tell y'all, that was the best role
play I have ever done! President Lee also gave us the best compliment I have
received my whole mission. Here are his words, "Sisters, that was amazing!
Y'all did so well that could have been on the district!" Yeah, basically Sister Clay and I are awesome!
After our zone meeting we had a trade off. I
stayed in Hendricks with Sister Gilbert. She is a brand new missionary. It was
fun! We had a lesson with Mike that night and a member came out with us. It was
good. We read from the Book of Mormon with him about baptism and then invited
him to baptism. He said it was too soon for that but he would be willing to
continue learning and meeting with us and coming to church!
Thursday we spent most of the day finding. We did like a
3 hour golden hour and then tried some less actives who we had no clue who
were. It was good. We tried this one member who didn't live there any more but
a lady named Kenya lived there and she was very open to letting us teach her.
She is currently looking for a church for her and her daughter! And she set a
return appointment! Can you say new gator!! We also had dinner with a less
active family and then went to class at the church where Justin came. He is
currently dating a less active member who lives in Mandarin first so he has
been super nice and happy! We had an awesome lesson with him after class where
we talked about baptism and prayer. He even committed to pray every day this
week! And he is inviting us and his new girlfriend over for dinner and a lesson
soon!
Friday we had weekly planning. I also had a physical
therapy appointment! Here is some happy news! I ran for the first time in
months with out my ankle hurting!! I was able to run for 15 minutes straight!
Happy day!! So at therapy they had me run on this anti gravity treadmill. It
was awesome! So they have you put on these little shorts that have a zipper
around the waist and then then zip you into the treadmill and it fills up with
air so it takes away all of your body weight. We set it so I was running at 70
percent of my body weight and it was so good! I'm excited able to get back to
running so i can hopefully lose some weight..
After therapy we had a lesson with Kenya! She is so awesome! She
believed everything we taught her and was so excited to learn more! We then
contacted a referral named Angie who requested a Bible. We were able to teach
her about the Book of Mormon and set a return appointment! We are going back
tonight! It was awesome! We ended the night by going out with the young women's
president to see some of the less active young women! It was great! We were
able to set up a time with 3 of them to come each week and do personal progress
and teach the new member lessons to them! We are basically going to reactivate all of Hendricks!
Saturday was just as good as the rest of the week! We
went out again with Sister Ortega, who is the young women's president. And then
we had Brother and Sister Hays take us, Jerry and his wife Mary out to
dinner! It was the best! We had an another awesome lesson with them and Mary
even committed to read from the Book of Mormon and pray about it! Miracles are
definitely taking place here in Hendricks!
That was basically all that has been going on here! It's
been such a fun week! I am loving every minute of being companions with Sister Clay! We laugh and joke all the time! Thanks for the package mom! I loved
everything in it! I was super excited about the razors because mine was getting
pretty old and I was to cheap too buy a new one! Y'all are the best! I hope
y'all have a good week! I love and miss y'all!
Love,
Sister Webb
