Dear family,
This week has been
a roller coaster of a week but it has been one amazing week!! There are so many
things that made this week so amazing and the support from family and friends
is one of them! This week I got 4 packages!!! Yes, I already know I am spoiled!
I got packages from David and Stephanie, Mom, Racheal, and then Maddy sent me
one as well! Packages always brighten up my day! So thank you to all who sent
me a package!
The next thing that made my week so amazing is the fact
that we have found so many people who are actually interested in our message
and who want to be baptized!!! They are seriously just falling into our hands!
Heavenly Father truly does bless you when you work hard and do what you are
suppose to! I will tell you about all of them quickly..
So, Sammy and his daughter Sammi Kailey still have
baptism dates for February 27. They are still really excited about everything
and doing well. I don't remember if I told y'all how we met Sammy but we were
basically just walking down the street and so was he so we just asked if we
could give him our card and set up a time to come meet with him. I'm happy to say since Sammy has been meeting with us things have really started looking up for him and that is getting him more and more
excited to grow closer to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ!
Next we have Lucy. She is the best! So she is a young
mother of 4 children. They range from 10-16. Lucy was a referral from the
Spanish Elders I believe. She had told us that she had missionaries who use to
come to her and just read the Book of Mormon to her. At our first visit she was
totally not interested in being baptized because she has a fear of water but we
keep bringing it up to her at every visit. Well, Thursday we went over and saw her and had a lesson
with her family and she is open to the idea of being baptized if she can know
this is true. She loves the lessons and she is praying at she will receive her
answer so she can be baptized on February 27. Her children also are wanting to
be baptized and are praying about the 27th as well!
You would think that would be it but I still have more
people to tell you about! Next there is Airis, she has met with missionaries
off and on for the past 5 years. Well, she just moved to Ocala and last week
while she was at the gas station she happened to see the elders and she started
talking to them and, well, they gave us her information and now we are meeting
with her! Before Airis moved she had a baptism date but she didn't get ever get
baptized. She is so ready for it now. She is getting married at the end of the
month and that clears up any chastity issues we may have faced. She knows the
Book of Mormon is true and she has actually been teaching her fiancé from the
gospel principles book! She is amazing!! We still need to set a baptism date
with her but we told her to pray about the date she would like to be baptized
on. So hopefully this week we can set that date!
Ok I'm finally to my last person. So her name is Anne,
she was a referral from one of the members. We have not actually met her yet
but when we were talking on the phone to her she told us how the other church
she had been attending she just didn't like and was getting nothing out of it.
She said that her and her husband have been to our church before and something
just keeps drawing her to it. She said she loves our church and she wants to
join it and so she would like the lessons so she can become a member! What is this!!!???
We have seen so many little miracles this week! Those are all just people who
want to be baptized!
Here is another miracle that happened last night. So, we
go to see a investigator named Brianna and her dad who is Ron. Well, Ron tells
us that since we saw him last he has read the intro to the Book of Mormon and 1
and 2nd Nephi!! What!!? He then tells us that he believes this book is true!
Crazy! Then he tells us that on Tuesday he was parked out side the church and
noticed all the missionary cars parked outside and he wanted to talk to us but
he didn't want to come in and disturb us but he wanted to tell us he is
interested in learning more! He is awesome!!!!
I'm trying to think of more miracles but my mind is
drawing a blank. We are seriously seeing miracles like crazy though!
We had trade offs this week and we both went up to
Gainesville! It was a lot of fun! We went to the college campus again and had
to do some preaching....Haha..talked about awkward! It always humbles me and makes
me appreciate that I am not serving in a YSA! So this time we went to campus
they made us bring this giant Book of Mormon cut out which was basically the
size of me! Haha as if our skirts and name badges didn't draw attention to this definitely did! Not to mention that one of the sisters brought a violin to
play. It wasn't as bad as I am making it seem but it is quite embarrassing. Or
maybe I am still just really prideful! I'm happy to say we only got Bible
bashed once! Trade offs made me realize how much I love being companions with Sister McGregor and how hard it is going to be when we finally get
transferred.. We have been praying like crazy that Heavenly Father will just
let us stay together one more transfer to see all of these people get baptized!
So keep us in your prays that we can stay together at least one more transfer!
That's asking a lot I know! Haha
So, remember Iris the lady I told you about
last week who was a referral and I thought she was completely crazy because she
told us everyone on her street that deals drugs and does them? Well it turns
out she is actually a member! Crazy right!? We are now just working with her to
help get her back to church.
Friday was a long day. So instead of doing our usual
weekly planning we ended up going to a
funeral.. It was a sad day. If you remember in my email a few weeks back I
mentioned that one of the members I was working with was in the hospital. Well
about 2 weeks ago he found out he had cancer and then last Sunday he ended up
passing away. It was a huge shock to all of us. He was not very old either. He
was in his early 40's. His wife asked if we would come to the viewing, the
service and then the graveside. So of course we went. She is such a sweet lady
and I love her to to death. At the service she asked if us missionaries would
sit in the front by her family. And then at the graveside she asked if when
the family got up to drop a flower on the grave if we would. It was kinda
different to be a part of the funeral like that but it was really nice. I
managed to hold my composure the whole funeral until we got to the graveside
and then I kinda lost it. While they were saying the dedicatory prayer on the
little girl they are in the process of adopting started to cry and ask where Daddy was and that just started the tears. I manage to compose myself when the
wife walked up to Sister McGregor and I and basically told us how this was a
wake up call to her and she promised that she would be to church every week and
she bore the sweetest testimony to us and told us that she now knows it is
possible that she can live in the celestial kingdom with her husband. Man, I
was bawling like a little baby! It was such a tender moment to be at the
funeral supporting her and her family.
So yesterday was our Regional Stake Conference. It was a
giant broadcast from Salt Lake to all of the southeast states. It was really
good. We got to hear from Sister Reeves, Elder Rasband, Elder Hales, and Elder
Clayton. They talked a lot about enduring to the end.
Elder Rasband gave a really good talk on the temple and
the importance of attending regularly and the blessing we receive when we do.
Elder Hales gave a really good talk on teaching your families the the basic
doctrines of the church. I loved all of it.
So, funny story that happened after
the conference. So there is this less active member that both the elders and us
sisters have been working with and he has said for the past 2 months he would
come to church and hasn't. Well Sunday he came! It was great!! Well after the meeting
we were trying to find him and we couldn't find him anywhere. Well we run out
side to the edge of the street and sure enough we see him walking home. I don't
know what we were thinking but we decide to chase him down. So we take off
running and we are yelling for him but because he is an old man he can't hear us.. Haha we looked like crazies! But we finally got to him! We said our hello
and that we were so glad to see him at church and then we turned around and ran
back to church. Haha
That is basically all that has happened this week! It has
been such a good week and I'm excited to have another good week! I love you all
and miss you like crazy! Thanks again for all the packages this week!
Love you all!
Sister Webb
