"I know THIS is eternal!!"

How are you all!?  I loved seeing you guys so much!  You guys are so cute!  You should have seen me before I talked with you guys and after.  I just cried and cried.  It was pretty funny.  My companion learned the word "breathe" in English pretty quick because she kept wanting to say it to me.  (she is like you mom!)  Don´t worry, it was a happy cry.  And I testified of families a lot that night.  It was pretty funny because I just got really frustrated.  I told my companion that it gets me so angry because I have something so beautiful and so wonderful!  I want everyone to have it because there is NOTHING else that makes me SO happy!!  But people are not listening to me!  I kept wanting to say: "Don´t you see what I am trying to give to you!?  Don´t you understand how happy you could be!? Look at what you could have for forever!! Please take it!!"  In fact I think I did say it to R_____ family that night.

So you already know about half of my week but I will tell you about the other half now!  We spent the most important part of Christmas with Paola and her family.  I love them so much!  They already invited us to New Year's but we feel bad that we continue to eat her food so we are going to go to a members house instead.  But I had a great time!  Dad said in his letter that it is like these people that I meet become so much a part of my life that I can´t imagine not knowing them.  He is so right. Especially with them. They make me so happy!  The twins, Vania, and Josefa, Paola and the parents are just so great!!  They are all progressing so much and it makes me so happy! 

So Thursday we went to visit Y_____.  (Who is so cute!!)  She had the Christmas card we made for her on the top of her tree.  I made 300 cookies for Christmas this year and she was one of the ones we gave the cookies to.  She told us she loved our gift so much that she wanted to give us one.  She made us these super super beautiful scarfs that I love!!  She is so adorable.  It frustrates me to try and explain her because she is one of those people that you can´t really put words too.  "Adorable" just does not cut it.  She is just Y______!  We are still stuck where we are with her.  She loves it when we come over but she literally has NO time.  She is sweet as can be and would totally be baptized now but she has to work. 

So the funny story about her is she was super excited to tell us this story.  She kept starting the story and then getting distracted.  I knew what story she was about to tell and I was doing my best to keep her distracted.  She was going to tell us about an envelope.  I don´t know if I told you guys but we went with president and his wife to drop off a couple of envelopes to families that really needed it. We chose her family as one of those families becuase she is in so much trouble with all of the bank stuff.  We have made this goal to have more lessons with members this week and it was a bad idea! We came with a family who is also in need and also needed an envelope.  So when Y______ started telling the story I was super worried.  She told us that she got home late and tired one night and wanted to sleep but her son told her there was a sobre on her bed waiting for her.  She told us that she did not have the ganas to open it but she did anyway and found PLATA. "PLATA, chicas plata!!" Hermana G____ (the member with us) looked at her with wide eyes and said the same thing happened to me and I have the sobre.  As you can imagine, Hermana Maciel and I were, at this point, sweating bullets, and had our hearts in our mouths.  I did not know what to say. Hermana G_____ pulled out the envelope while Yesica went to go get hers.  It was obvious that the same person did the good deed and the only connection between the two women were these two idiot missionaries scared out of our pants.  They did not do anymore investigating so they don´t know who did it, but I think they do ... they just did not want to say if we did not say anything.  Ha ha ha!! it was a good story anyway.  I love them so much!  I hope I will be friends with Y______ for forever! 

Friday we had divisions so I had to do a lot.  I got to work with this cute girl who got here a week ago.  She is adorable but does not speak Spanish.  We went to the two hardest lessons that we have in the week.  The first is with the preachers son.  He is so great!  I really love being in his house.  I don´t know how this guy is so smart with such a limited book and such a limited way of interpreting it.  But he understands a lot of things really well.  It got kind of gross when the cute member we were with started Bible bashing.  He started saying we have missionaries that preach in the street every day and where are your missionaries!? (which by the way Evangélicos totally have missionaries!) I had to stop him and correct him and tell him that they do in fact have missionaries and that we know that all churches are great.  I ended up bearing a really intense testimony about families and the Book of Mormon!  I told him that he could throw lots of scriptures at me and I probably would not have the answer but I told him that I know that the Book of Mormon was true because I had read and prayed about it.  Then I happened to find this picture that mom had sent me of our family and one of Lauren (he knows her story) and I told him "I know THIS is eternal!!" He got really quiet and said 'how do you know?'  I know he wants a family forever!  I know he likes that idea!  I know he loves them so much!  I told him that I still feel the love of my sweet little sister and it is the same as when she was alive, so 'I know that relationship has NOT died!'  It was so cool!  I felt the spirit so strong.  He told me basically that he wants it to be true, but because the Bible does not say anything about it, he cannot believe.  It was so sad!  And then our cute member changed the subject to why the stake president is cool.... Oh how I love members.... sometimes.  The next day we had M_____.  He is on the other side of the spectrum.  I_______ uses his head way too much and M______ uses his heart way too much.  It is really funny because we have divisions every week and we always have these two people and at the end of the day the Hermana I am with always looks at me and says ... your sector is hard!!  It really is not but we do have crazy lessons with these two.  M______ is so great but he does not care what it says in the Bible he just believes what he feels in his heart.  So we are still stuck trying to help him understand that we will be resurrected and that Jesus was not a sinner.  That was the new discovery.  He told me that Jesus had to have been a sinner because if not he would not be able to relate with us.  It turned out to be really cool because I went to one of the best scriptures I know about the Atonement in Alma 7.  I read 11 and 12 with him and he said that is fine, but I still think he sinned.  The Spirit told me to read a little more so I looked down and in 13 it explains perfectly.  It says first that M_____ was right, up until that point the Savior really could not relate with us because it is one of the only things that the Spirit does not know.  But then it says that our perfect Savior took upon him the sins of the world.  I got to bear this testimony of how I know that the Atonement was that much prettier because not only did he sacrifice for my sins, he as a sinless man paid for my sins so he could relate with me perfectly.  He does know what it is like to be a sinner even though he NEVER sinned!  That is pretty ironic.  I love my Savior!  He lives!  And I know that he paid the ultimate price for me even though he was the last one to deserve it!  I am finally starting to understand what it means to use His atonement every day!  I need Him to teach me, to strengthen me, to cleanse me, and to forgive me.  You guys should read the talk by a 70 in general conference.  I don´t remember his name but it is called "Will you also be made whole?"  It is in the second session on Saturday.  It is a beautiful talk about how we need His atonement for every part of our lives.  I love this new idea.  That with this infinite act of love, we have the power to fill our lives with love too.   Enough love to completely change our hearts and only want good.  (Mosiah 5 and Mornoni 7)  I think that is really all God´s power is.  Priesthood power has the exact same trates as charity.   It says that the Atonement was a great act of love!  God´s love is so pure and so infinite that he has the power to use that love to make us holy!  He can use that power to save us from satan.  That is why satan cannot be stronger, because his power is hate and we all know that love is always stronger than hate.  If you don´t believe me you can watch whichever Disney movie you choose!!  ;)

The girl I did divisions with the whole time kept asking me when she was going to know Spanish like me. I did not know I knew Spanish, so that was fun.  It turns out I learned a lot without really noticing it.

Saturday we went to visit that family that I told you about last week.  They are so great!  They are doing great!  The dad thanked us right off for the visits because their home is already changing.  He told us that they could feel more peace in their home that week!  Yes!!  They also went to church on Sunday!!  That is HUGE!  People never go to church that fast.  We found them on freaking Wednesday and a week and a half later they were at church.  We have another appointment with them this week so I am super excited. 

Sunday was rough!  I miss Lauren!  I love her so much!  I read all of the book that Sara sent me and it made me really happy!  I hate that she had to leave us and four years is a long time!  I cried a lot.  I made a goal though.  Lauren hated contention.  She would run away as fast as the Spirit would if we let it enter the room.  So I made the goal to stop letting contention enter my life.  I don´t want to feel angry.  Lauren did not like contention because it made it harder to love.  She was so good at loving that contention just did not make sense.  It did not matter if she did not get what she wanted she wanted to love people.  She knew how much better it was.  Anyway ... so that is my goal.  It started before New Years, so it is not my New Years resolution;).  I love you all!  You are all an example and a power in my life!  We have a family with power because we know how to love!  We are good at it! Even if it has to be on different parts of the world and even different parts of the veil!  And, because God loves us enough we are going to be whole again one day!  Because His love is more powerful than death!  I am so grateful for my Savior who made that possible for me!  He lives!  He is real!  And His love can save us! 

Love you all! 

Hermana Webb.

Feliz Navidad!

¿Como Están?

Life is so great here in Apoquindo.  We had a week absolutely full of miracles and I am so grateful for everyone!  I love being a part of the work of God!  It is so tricky because we have to choose to accept it ... but God has a really good way of showing us what will make us truly happy! 

Tuesday- We always visit V___ and J____.  J____, as always, is doing really well.  She continues to have health problems, but never testimony problems.  She loves to pray and especially sing.  I love her so much.  V_____ on the other hand was not progressing as much. I went to their house scared. You guys remember what has been going on the past couple of weeks.  She was not sure she wanted to continue with this whole church thing.  She was pretty sure that God did not even exist.  I told her the last week that I would pray with all of my heart.  And I did!  I made a deal with God.  I have been struggling with the idea of "praying with faith" lately so I told Him I would be a really good pray-er if he would just help Vania get her testimony back! :-)  She did!  She told us that she has been praying pretty hard too, and one day she was lost in the hospital and she told God: "if you are really there, and I am really in the right church please help me find my way."  (I know God does not always answer prayers like this) And, she found her way!!  She was so happy on Tuesday!  I left the house bawling!! I was so happy!  That little girl is like my little sister, so when she was questioning her testimony I about died.  It was so beautiful to see how God answered her prayers.  I like it because I have a lot of really beautiful experiences of when God answers my prayers, but it was really sweet to be involved in the story of the answer to prayers for someone else.  God helped me pray harder in faith.  And, V____ is happy!!!  I could not be happier! 

Wednesday- This day started out tough.  At lunch with president we started talking about cancer and how terrible chemotherapy is.  I am definitely feeling pretty tender about her recently.  I miss her.  It really hurt to think about chemo again.  I hate that stuff and I hate that Lauren had to suffer through it. I was crying pretty hard but did a really good job at hiding it except when president asked me to give the closing prayer.  I have this terrible habit of crying at his house.  IT was not that terrible I just really missed her and you guys and had serious ganas to testify of families!  Don´t worry, God knew! That night no one wanted to talk to us!  I was done!  I wanted to go home and cry myself to sleep.  I could not seem to get some really nasty images out of my head from the last days of Lauren´s life. We were getting rejected by everyone!  It was like 8:45 and we had a appointment at 9 ... I felt like we should go to one more house where they are never there.  It is the house of this lady that I contacted like 4 months ago and was not interested at all.  But we went anyway, because it felt like something better than contacting someone on the street.  We rang the door bell and no one was home.  But a man drove up and asked if someone had come out.  We told him no.  It was the husband of this lady we had talked to.  He was really interested!  He wanted us to come inside but he is a man and we can´t go in the house if there is only a man. The wife walked up while we were talking and they invited us in. We sat down and started talking about the first points of the gospel. Then a little randomly, God whispered, "Okay Carlie, I need you to testify of eternal families."  God is so good to me!  I got to tell them with all of my crazy passion that I know that families are forever! That with the Gospel we can have stronger family relationships!  The dad was pretty happy after I was done.  He looked at me and said 'that is something we need!'  Then the image in my head was not of Lauren suffering in a hospital bed, the image changed into my family triumphant pure, strong, and eternal!  The Atonement restores everything!!  We had another appointment with them on Saturday and they were there waiting!!  The mom and the daughter had read and the husband did not have time.  But I am so excited because the second lesson is a good sign!  I am so happy! 

Thursday- Remember forever ago the reference of the Peruvian named John with a black fence?  We found a different person instead.  It is a house of Peruvians.  Every time we go there someone else leaves the house.  One of the times we went we taught this kid that seemed drunk and not very excited.  We continued going back to this house and we continued finding this kid. His name is Aldo. He recently fell while doing construction and broke his shoulder (or some bone around there). His animo was pretty low and seemed more excited to listen to us.  This Thursday we went to his house to give him a blessing for health. The elders and a member from our ward came to give the blessing and it was awesome!  The spirit was so strong!!!  After the elders asked how he felt and he just smiled and said 'I don´t really know how to explain how I feel.'  I felt really impressed to invite him to get baptized, and he accepted!!  It was pretty exciting!  He told us he felt really good!  He kept saying I don´t know how to explain it I just feel really good! 

Friday- We went to see MC.  I love her so much!  She is a sweet heart!  Hermana Maciel has been visiting her for 9 months now every week and she has never said a single prayer.  My companion told me that that was one of her goals before she left this sector.  When we got to her house I felt very impressed to try to include her grandchildren who usually don´t want to listen.  They are 7,11,11, and 20.  They were all sitting in the same room and I kind of made them join by joking around.  We talked about the gift that we can give to Jesus for his birthday.  They all had sweet answers.  It was kind of a joke of a lesson and I felt bad for making them join.  I tried to end it with a prayer and none of the grandchildren wanted to say it.  Hermana Maciel felt impressed to asked M____.  I had given up hope on her praying but it worked ... she prayed!!!!  MC prayed with us!!!!!!  I was so happy! Hermana Maciel was happier!  She cried for like twenty min. and had an emotional hang over and everything!!  It was pretty funny she kept looking at me with all of her tears in her eyes saying 'this is all your fault!!' He he he he!! my evil plan of making all of the world an emotional wreck is totally working!  :-)  We were pretty excited!

Saturday- We finally got E____ to leave her house and go to an actividad at the church.  She was pretty sick but she was still really determined to go. It was pretty fun. It was an activity for the primary.  We went with her and her two girls.  I also played the violin!  My violin playing skills are getting popular around here.  Which is funny because they are pretty lacking in supplies right now but it was exciting to play again. 

That was our week of miracles!  We are so blessed!  It ended with a bummer.  P___ and her family moved.  I have not written about them because they are a member family that live in the sector of the hermanas.  But they are really amazing!  I love them!  All four of the Hermanas in my apartment had a nice cry.  It was hard to see them go.  This ward really needed them.  They will be great where they are headed though. 

That was my week! Can you see that God loves me and really loves these people that He is letting me serve!?  He is so good at this game!  I love God so much!  God lives!  He loves us!  He is doing so much more than moving mountains here in Chile ... He is changing our lives for eternity!  I am so grateful that he is changing my heart!  He is so good to me!  I love you all!  Thanks for being a part of my family! Talk to you in 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love Hermana Webb

I am still in Apoquindo with Hermana Maciel!!!!!

This has been a very exciting week that ended up being less intense than we thought it was going to be.  Hermana Maciel and I are together again!!!  I know it is crazy!  We were both prepared to be transferred, but we are both happy and I am just really excited to have six more weeks with my favorite companion, and celebrate Navidad with someone I am already really comfortable with.

This week was really similar to all of the other weeks with a lot of ups and downs.  First down: sweet V____.   AHHHHHHHH!!!!!  I refuse to have children  -- it hurts too much!!  Oh my word, I hate that she feels like she has lost her faith.  And what makes it worse is she is not really trying to find it again.  She does not really want to and so she is not going to find it.  She told us that she is content where she is.  I don´t think it is because she is lazy, I think it might just be that she is afraid to find out that it IS true.  I find it is worth the risk.  We are going to keep working with her and her family, who are still doing great, but I think are pretty tired.  It is good that the girls are in vacations now hopefully the family can have some time to rest together. 

We had zone conference this week.  It was intense.  President gave this really beautiful talk about the Savior.  We talked in detail about the Atonement, and how we should use it to teach our investigators. We tried to talk about it a lot more often this week and it worked well.  It is pretty spectacular that we have access to that Atonement that is infinite!  It does not matter what we have done, what sin we have committed, what challenge we are going through, what temptations easily overcomes us, what weakness constantly haunts us, or what trial we are facing WE KNOW IN WHOM WE HAVE TRUSTED!!!  He has the power!  No one is excluded in that group! Sometimes it feels too good to be true, and so I freak out a little but turns out His Atonement can cover my freaking-out-ness too!!!

So, Y_____ is doing really well!  She is such a sweetheart.  I love her so much!  She is doing really well spiritually, but not too well financially.  She lost a good job which cost her her savings and now has taken a job doing something with parking and is now working EVERY DAY for 18 hours!!!  The only day she has "off" are Sundays when she only has to work 9 hours.  She is working more than us!!!  We only work like 16 hours a day and our day off we only have to work 5!  You know your schedule is RIDICULOUS when you are working more than the missionaries! And, we get a lot of support.  We get letters from home, lunch with members, and of course the most important is a lot of strength from God Himself! ... because we are doing His work.  Pray for her please!   We challenged her to get baptized and she accepted very happily!  We are really excited for her!  She begs us for homework even though she does not have time to read and she reads every time!  I love her!  We don´t get to see her very much but when we do it is a delight!  I don´t know when she is going to get baptized (she can´t go to church so we are kind of stuck) but she is awesome. 

We continue to have really beautiful lessons with M C____.  I can´t believe she still has not gone to church!  She is so sweet!  She has a heart of gold!  It is so hard for her to find the faith that she feels like she has lost.  I don´t think she has lost it; I think she just has to find it in herself again.  She is the one who lost her son and her husband cheated on her and left her all in the same year.  I love her so much!  She told us that she was able to just straight up forgive her ex-husband.  She taught me a lot about how we should just love people .... that being mad at someone is actually so much harder than just loving them. 

We also challenged Manuel to get baptized and he accepted!  His only real problem is he believes truth is just what you feel is right.  He is half right but he does not trust the scriptures.  I feel like the Tree of Life vision is right on because I feel like I am on the path using the scriptures and words of the prophets to feel God´s love.  He can see that I am happy, and it is like he is in the field, calling to me: 'How do you have such a firm path to the tree?'  I keep repeating over and over ... I am using this bar of iron (the scriptures) and he keeps saying ... 'that is not it!' 'what are you doing?'   He told us he knows this church must have something good with how many signs he has experienced in his life but he just wants more time to learn. 

So, now for my sermon on Love :-) .... Sorry I did not realize it was always about love, but dad is right ... I love loving people so much!  I really think that was the joy God was talking about when He told us we can have a deeper joy.  When we love, look for, and enjoy the good; it makes it so I don´t have to feel angry, I don´t have to wonder if God is real.  I just get to feel love all of the time!  I am so obviously not perfect at this but I love learning about it.  This week is about hope and love.  There is a scripture in Romans 5:3-5 that says that we are grateful for trials, because they bring patience, and we are grateful for patience, because it brings experience, and we are grateful for experience because it brings hope (like the article you sent me mom!) and "hope maketh us not ashamed because the love of God shedeth itself abroad on the children of men."  I love that!  I can have confidence in my hope because I cannot deny his love!  I know it is real, so I can go out every day UNASHAMED to share His gospel, because I feel His love.  What a beautiful idea!  God lives and loves us!  I know it!  I hope you all have a great week and I can´t wait to talk to you all super soon!

Anyway, I love you all!  

Love, Hermana Webb

Misión Chile Santiago Este
Cristobal Colón 6824
Las Condes, Casilla 27.144
Santiago, Región Metropolitana
Chile

I LOVE love!!

"Turns out I'm really still just a little kid!"

Hey! I really love you all so much! This week was another great week! It was super crazy but it was good!

We had a lot of divisions this week. My companion is a leader entonces we do a lot of divisions anyway.  Leaders have four to eight hermanas that they do divisions with every change.  I like that my comp is a leader because I get to know other girls.  I also like it when I have divisions with a gringo because I get to talk in English!!!  (That does not happen very much.  It is crazy after one day my Spanish totally gets worse.)

We had a really hard lesson with ______ this week.  _______ is the son of the baptist pastor.  I learned some things about his religion that I did not know ... Did you know they interpret the Bible literally?!?  Who does that?  I thought those people did not even exist anymore!  I don´t mean to be rude, but I really thought that did not happen.  He is such a smart kid and he understands the principles of the gospel so beautifully so I was really surprised to find out that he is so well educated with such a limited view of such a limited book.  He is usually very loving and patient but this time he was worried and contentious.  I have never seen him like that.  I think it was because we scared him a little bit.  I really just want to focus on the Book of Mormon with him because it is so obviously true!  I feel bad -- I don´t want to throw it in his face but he could be so much smarter!  He could understand these things so much better if he just used a little faith to try it!  I don´t know if he is going to though.  It was a really beautiful experience for me though.  I was about to read the story of Enoch with him because we were going to talk about how he could pray to see if the book is true. But then the spirit told me another idea.  He just finished his thesis about sin and how people repent. So naturally the spirit told me to read the story about Alma. We started reading it and that is when he started throwing every type of question at us.  That is when he started feeling contentious.  But it is such a beautiful chapter.  ______ started talking about how God has perfect justice and mercy and he wanted to say the chapter was wrong.  He quickly found out how right this chapter is!  I am pretty sure it has all the right structure and it is this beautiful comparison between justice and mercy.  I never noticed it before but the chapter was absolutely perfect.  It is so tricky because I don´t want it to sound like HA you were wrong!  But I want him to break through the limits that he is in. 

We had another great lesson with ______. He still thinks that the religions are just ¨football teams,¨ but he wants so bad to have the connection that he had with God before again.  We took a recent convert to both of the lessons, one with ______ and the other with ______ .... and poor guy was a little stressed.  These men are the hardest investigators that we have.  He really liked ______ though. Now it is getting awkward because he continues to tell us that our eyes are the prettiest and that we are ¨guapisimo¨ -- that in case you were wondering is 'like really attractive'.  That is when our lessons get awkward which is always why we have another member with us.  We will see what happens with him. 

______ is doing so well!  She is so cute and the experience at the baptism did not scare her away!!  I was so worried that she would go running but she is still really excited and was practically begging for more homework from the Book of Mormon.  She is such a cutie!  She basically taught her mom everything and she is now listening to us too!  I love this work!

On of the members here was commenting on why we have been in this area and been companions for so long ... he said he believes it is specifically for one family ....  I felt that big time when he said it to me.  I love them so much!  But that makes the responsibility really big!  I really want them to be happy!

....  _____ and her family!  I love them I love them I love them!!!!  _______ just got back from a long trip and we were not sure where he was so me and another comp just went over to find out.  I love him I love him I love him!  He is so quiet, but turns out he has been quietly progressing.  I was kind of blunt and said:

¿Entonces, quiere bautizarse?

¡SÍ!

Enserio! Ah bakan!! ¿quiere casarse?

¡SÍ!

Ah su familia va a ser eterno!  Estoy super animada!  Ah! Bakan ok no creo que tengo mas! 

And then I screamed for a little while about forever families and he laughed at me but we both know that he is more excited than I am ... he is just so cute and shy!  I love him I love him I love him!  (Too bad at that time _____ and _______ were fighting so _____ does not want to get married now but that is just a bump in the road compared to what we have had before!!  :-)

_____ is my biggest worry.  She is not choosing things that are going to make her happy.  She is still trying to go to church and participates in all of our lessons but she continues to doubt. 

We had an NDH in the house of presidente last night and that was awesome!  The twins, as usual, were crazy!  One almost drown in presidents pool and the other was just well... ______.  They are so cute, but so crazy! 

I think that is about it.  I am so happy!  God is teaching me spiritually, and mentally.  I have been thinking a lot about love!  Moroni says twice (Ether 12 and Moroni 7) that we don´t get any good gift without charity.  I don´t think that is because God is trying to hold back the good gifts; I think it is because we are honestly happier when we just love!  God tries to build up our love.  When we follow his commandments, love is sweeter and lasts longer.  We develop traits like faith, hope, patience, diligence and kindness (Moroni 7) and it makes love so sweet!  Not only is He helping make that love sweet here on this earth but it can be sweet in the life to come.  It is a forever love.  satan is the opposite.  While God uses every thing good to build it up, (Moroni 7:16) satan uses every thing bad to tear it down (Moroni 7:17)  satan uses lust, addictions and contentions to dull the affects of love ... he uses those things to distract us -- anything to keep us from receiving that beautiful gift of true love forever.  I am not just talking about husbands and wives - I am talking about with everyone. Especially with God.  This gospel is true!  I am finally realizing what that phrase really means!  Our family is forever!  God really does love us!  And he really answers prayers!  He is going to take us home to live with him in His mansions that he is building for all of us!  We are ALL welcome! ... Because He loves us all!  I love this plan!  I am tired and I fall a lot!  But love is what always gets me up again!  It does not just get me up again, it changes me completely!  With the atonement, or the power of His love I can change and have a heart that is pure enough to be filled with that love that Moroni tells us to pray with all energy of heart for.  I love Love!  I also love you all so much! 

Hermana Webb

"... how do you even know there is life after this one!?"

Wow that is so weird we are now in December!!

This week was so wonderful! It started off absolutely wonderful with a new investigator who is golden!!  She is so cute!  She was a contact in the street from the other Hermanas.  She is always really busy but she is really open to the gospel. ____ is super cute. Whenever she likes something she says 'whatsup?' or 'incredible!'  She was so excited when we gave her a book of Mormon because she said she could feel the passion coming out of my fingers as I passed it to her.  She is right ... that book is special!  There really is something about that book!  People will be so grumpy until we pass the book to them and then they pause because they realize this is not just any other group of preachers. She came to church too! We will see if she keeps progressing. 

The rest of the week was pretty intense. ______ (our star converso recente) has been doubting her faith like crazy.  Not just the whole Mormon thing, but all of it.  She is now not even sure if God even exists.  Turns out satan is attacking all of us -- even the star ones that seemed to have all of the faith in the world.  I told _____ the same thing I told you guys about questions.  I like what mom said about how things that take away from our testimony are only from satan.  I told her that I don´t know why, but at some parts of life, we just have to fight for our testimonies.   I told her that we can fight together.  It was actually a really sweet experience, because she looked at me and said ... "how do you even know there is life after this one?"  I could answer that one!!  I told her that I knew it because I have felt my little sister.  And, I can´t make up the cute personality that she has in my head.  I know what it feels like when I know that she loves me! That is something that I could never make up.  She has a great grandma that she was really close to and who died more than a year ago.  I really hope that she will take her name to the temple because I feel like that could be a really beautiful experience. ______ is definitely a favorite!   Her family is progressing so well and she wants to believe so bad that I think she will be okay. 

We lost __________ this week.  It was a pretty big bummer!  He was progressing so well.  _______ is the nephew of _____ and loved everything we teach.  He is young, but he was doing so well that we kept going back and helping him get to church.  This week when we came the mother told us that _____ cannot get baptized because he is going to get baptized in the Catholic church.  Then she told him right in front of us that she is going to give him this precious gift called baptism and she hopes that he never gives his mom disrespect when he is old by getting baptized in any other church!  GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!  Are you kidding me!?  That is so sad and also ridiculous! Thanks _____!  GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! I hate pride!  We should get rid of it it!!!  The visit got worse when his dad told me that I only believe because I was brain washed by my parents and I just don´t know any better.  AGAIN, GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!  satan is so mean!!!  It was a very frustrating visit!

Sunday was quite the day!!  Here are all of the reasons that we are very blessed! First of all ______ got baptized, ________ got back from a very long work trip (like a month and a half) ... he traveled all through the night so he could see his daughter get baptized!!  We had two new investigators in the church, and the chapel was absolutely packed!!   Those were all of the good things! It was a pretty exciting week!  There were some pretty rough things too with the church people not understanding some things about the investigators and not letting some important things happen on the program.  Not to mention that _______ had to be baptized three times in icy cold water and the testimony meeting after was focused on some members boyfriend ... (in the words of Sara: "Can't we please just talk about Jesus!?")  I also had a pretty embarrassing moment that I have picked up a new nickname for from the Elders that I would like to lose already, but I hope the two investigators that were there will come back anyway.

So this week was quite the week! I am learning more and more every day! This week I discovered how good at this 'game' God is again!  As I got kind of grumpy about some of the problems that happened on Sunday and with our investigators, God showed me a way around it.  The answer again is LOVE.  When I remember how very much I love these people or you guys, it is hard to question that you all could possibly just be a random result.  The way that _____ and her family, _____, _______, ______, _____, _____, _______, _________, and _____ have changed and blessed my life is just too beautiful to decide is just by chance!  Our family is too perfect to not have been made by a loving, and all knowing creator and a life dedicated to following Him.  We are just too happy for any other conclusion to be possible!  God took my strength and used it to lift my weakness!  That was a cool idea!  I love you all so much more and more every day!  This is so worth every moment, even at the times I have to fight satan!  I love you all so much!  I hope you have a great week!  Thanks for your letters!  I really like them!  They make me very happy! 

Love, 

Hermana Webb