June 11, 2013
Hola!!
Hey family! How goes your lives!?
Life is so good here! I am working hard every day it is pretty intense but it is absolutely wonderful!!
So
someone asked me what a normal day is like, so here goes. I wake up at
seven and jump into exercise close as fast as possible. Then I go study
for an hour and then I exercise. We go to the park to exercise. I
usually run with whoever will run with me which is H Fedor. (p.s.
Heather, do you know a sister Fedor? Her sister went to Poland) She is
adorable! She has had some pretty crazy stuff happen with boys that she
loves to talk about. It is nice not to be the only bitter one. Anyway we
run around the park with our new "pet" Pedro! He is this little perrito
that I love! The parks here are beautiful! There are always people
there cleaning it. I will send a picture next week. Then we come back,
shower super fast and by ten we are in classes until... ten. Then we go
home and go to sleep by eleven. Then the next day we do it all over
again. Through out the day we teach fake investigators. I love it but it
is also super hard because it is only in Spanish. My companion knows
not very much so I kind of have to do a lot. It is good though I am
learning and we are both getting better everyday.
So we
have a new phrase here at the CCM and it is called "pulling a Webb." What
does pulling a Webb mean you ask? It means that you don´t speak the
language right.... Yup that is how often I have made mistakes! Whenever
anyone messes up everyone yells that they pulled a Webb:). So my Webb of
the week was I was trying to tell a huge group of Latinas that they
should be grateful that they are only in the CCM for two weeks and
instead of agraticidos I used gratis, which p.s. means free (like it does
not cost any money) Whoops! They laughed at me about that for a long
time!
So the other exciting moment of the week was when I
finally rolled my rr´s!!! It was pretty exciting! One of my teachers
every morning makes me roll my r´s. And every morning I totally fail:).
Except one day it finally happened! I was so excited!! My teacher
screamed and then went to hug me and then said oopps! I can't hug you and
shook my hand. H Orten said the look of excitement on both of our faces
was priceless. I was pretty excited. That night we threw a party where
The Latinas said words that required r rolling and I would repeat and
then we would all dance :)
Okay it is official I miss
children! I am dying! I taught the lesson on Sunday in Relief Society
and I wanted to cry the whole time because I got to use a whiteboard
marker! I love teaching! I got to play with a little kid today at the
distribution center and I was so excited!! We played peek-a-boo (one of
my favorites). I want to learn Spanish just so I can play with them!
So
I don´t know why but everyone here is sick! My companion was has been
sick a ton! It has been kind of sad. My roommate was sick and half of
the people in my class have been sick. The kid from Skyline that is
Lauren´s age was excited for lunch so naturally he jumped off a chair
and hit his head on the cealing and busted it open... wow these people
are so smart!!
I am learning so much! It is crazy how real
your weaknesses become as you are here. God is so good to me though! I
love the way He teaches me here! I am surrounded by some of the most
amazing people ever. This place is flooded with people who are from all
over South America so you can imagine that there are a lot of really
awesome life stories. My roommate now thankfully speaks English and was
telling me about her life last night and I was like a kid listening to
their favorite book I did not want her to stop! I love loving people! I
love that that is my job! I just have to have the faith that God will
help me and then all I have to do is love them! I do I love these
people!
We talked to a lady today for like an hour and
gave her a card for our church. It was really cool. She is such a sweet
lady. She had broken English and she had broken Spanish so it was a
pretty broken conversation but it felt so good to bear my testimony! I
have so much to work on but God is so good! I am starting to feel like
change is possible, and not just in my life some day I will over come
this weakness, but I can begin over coming this weakness right now! With
faith in God we can over come all of these weaknesses! We can begin now
it does not have to be in the futre! We can see our lives change. I
know that everything is little by little, but that does not mean never!!
I
love you all! God is so good! He knows what He is doing! I testify that
He is a God of miracles and we have the truth! What a blessing it is to
be called to bring that truth to so many people! Thanks for being such a
support! I am praying for all of you!!
love Hermana Webb
June 4, 2013
Hey family!!
Okay I started the email a little earlier this time so hopefully I
can write an email that will tell all of you all about my week! I love
this place! I have learned so much! It is just like everyone always
says, it is hard but it is so wonderful! I am finally learning as mom
says to stop being God ´s most unnecessary adviser and just letting Him
shape me because he does a beautiful job at it! So I wrote a list so I
am just going to go in chronological order.
First I messed up Amorso and Almuerzo again!!!! It was my second
practice discussion with a practice investigator and I told him that Dios
es muy Almuerzo. Whoops! I started laughing so hard and botched the
rest of the discussion I could not even look at my companions face
because if we did we were thrown into more fits of giggling and I could
not stop! It was hilarious. My teacher came and wrote on the board Amorso
= Almuerzo with a cross over the equal sign. It was so funny! But that
is not all. I was talking to another girl in my district and said that
Mediante la expacion we can be forgiven of our pescados. For those of
you who don´t speak Spanish, pescados is fish and pecados is sin.... I
think I just really like food so I work it into all of my gospel
discussions. Then finally, (yes... there is more) I was eating lunch with
some Latinas and they ask me about me pallolo (boy friend) I replied oh
no I don´t like boys. The girls eyes got wide and I had to back track
and explain that 'no, I like boys I just had a really terrible experience
with them before I came.' It was pretty funny. It was a good last Spanish
mistake.
So they always say that Chilean Spanish is different. Lets be
honest ... all Spanish is different! The Latin sisters are always making fun
of each others accents. But my teacher the other day told a story about
Nephi in "Chilean" Spanish... You know those moments when you want to
run out of a room crying because your brain is exploding... yeah that is
how I felt. Thanks goodness I am on the Lord's errand ... he has to help me
with this stuff! :)
We have been doing the awesome study of the Book of Mormon and I
made a decision, Every time we open the Book of Mormon, There should be a
gospel choir singing AHHHHHHHH, and golden flakes should fly out with
that shimmer noise :). I love that book! It is true! Have you read it
recently?! Good!, go read it again!! This time say lots of prayers in
between! That book has changed my life! I can´t wait to use it to
change others!!
I have the coolest teachers in the world! The first one is Hermano
Aria. He is this big guy with a really scary voice but secretly is the
best at bringing the spirit into the room ever! He carries around a night
stick and goes kick boxing. My second teacher was a fire dancer when he
had a dream that he would not get into heaven until he changed his life
and so he went on a mission and is now a teacher at the CCM. The last
one, I kid you not, looks like Fix it Felix!! He is super happy and
some day I want to convince him to jump because I am pretty sure the
little jumping sound will come out of his feet!!
My English is leaving me.... Ha ha, not really -- but I really can´t spell
now. (sorry for typos.) I spelled my name C A R L Y. And then it took
me a really long time to recognize it... I need a nap :)
I am learning so much here! I love this place!! Every day is so
hard and I can see my weaknesses way too well but it is absolutely
beautiful! I am on serious fast track for learning! I want to be better
everyday! It is not a crappy feeling of 'I am not enough', but this feeling
of promise for all of the things I can become everyday! We watched the
famous Holland talk last Sunday and I know see why it is famous! I cried
like a child. I made an interesting discovery. I am weak! I have so
many doubts and mess things up everyday, but I know one thing! I have
faith in my Savior. Not just that, but I love Him! That feeling of love
is greater than jealousy, pride, doubt, fear, and discouragement. All of
those feelings that I am so good at going to are real but I love my
Savior more! I know I can be a good missionary because of that love and
most of all because of His sweet Atonement! What a blessing it is to be
shaped by the Savior!!! The most beautiful part is I love more and more
every day! I love all of you so much and even more than before! We are
so blessed to be such a beautiful family and I am so grateful for all of you! I
pray for each of you every night!!
Love
Hermana Webb
Family!!
I spent too much time writing each of you so
this may be kind of short, sorry! Sara you should feel grateful I accidentally wrote you way too much!! Also, ignore mistakes because this
keyboard is weird and I am almost out of time.
I love this
place! It is so hard but it is so good!! My companion as I already told
you is Hermana Runnells. She is way sweet! She is definitely a classic
Utah girl. I think we are going to have a great six weeks!
Spanish
is hard!! I love it, but I also hate it. Yesterday they made all of the
Latinos learn some English and I was so excited that they had to learn
it so they could feel my pain. The best story so far, is I was supposed
to be talking about expacion (Atonement), and so I said: Because of the
Atonement we can be wrapped in the arms of lunch... amorso is loving and
almuerzo is lunch. They are not even that close!! I definitely win so
far in my district for having the worst language mistake! I wish you
guys could see me trying to communicate with the people here. Most
everyone here is from South America so we are getting better and better
at Charades every day! You should have seen Hermana Rodrigues (my
roommate) acting out an Hermana losing her sock in the laundry .... it was so
great!!
My teachers are so great! I have three 4 hour
classes. It is so intense! By the time I go to sleep, I don´t know if I
should scream something in Spanish or make someone get baptized. But it
has been so good! I am kind of on a spiritual high so sorry if I start
talking about being Mormon too much because I love it!
My
district is.. interesting. No they are all so great! I am the old lady
and the bitter one! It was so funny the other day one of the guys who is
super sexist said something about all of the girls being married by the
time the guys get home and all of the girls in the room ooed and awed
about the compliment. I quickly responded 'you think we are that stupid
that we would date a guy for that short of time and then just marry
him?!! No Way!' So I am the bitter one too. Which is funny because I am
not even bitter. I love my life!!
My teachers are
hilarious!! They are all from Chile and just got back from their
missions. One of them looks like Fix it Felix from Wreck it Ralph! I love
watching him because he totally acts like him too. It is good because
when you are in a class for four hours you need something to entertain
you.
I love Latinas!! They are so sweet and are so patient
with my non-Spanish! Remember that time when I told people I could
understand but could not speak?... yeah that was a lie. I am learning so
many things it is so beautiful! Santiago is beautiful! It has been
really warm. Every day we go running at the park. Sadly no one runs the
whole time so I don't get to run as much. Their parks are all I have
really seen of Santiago but their parks are great!
I love
being a missionary! It feels so good to think that I can totally lose
myself in other people! I love these people! I love their culture, I
love their language, I love all of it! I
am learning so much! Love you all!!
Lots of love!!!
Hermana Webb!!
I am here
alive and well! I am one of the oldest ones here, second only to a
twenty five year old. I was the last one to get my call in the group.
Almost everyone else have been waiting to go on missions since December.
I am so lucky to be here! My companion is the girl we met in the
airport. Her name is Hermana Rennells. She is super adorable! She has
always wanted to go on a mission so the age change was really convenient
for her. She is nineteen. Let´s be honest, everyone is nineteen! I am
super happy! I have not done a ton of classwork yet but I heard it is
pretty intense. I can´t wait to begin the process of shoving as much
information in my head as I possibly can. Everyone here is really sweet
and it should be a really good experience. I am trying to practice just
being me! I can tell it is going to be a battle but I am getting better
at it all of the time. The MTC president, or really the CCM president is
super sweet and his wife is as kind as she could be. I love being here. I
love you all! Mom, please forward this to everyone:) I only have five
minutes so I have to go but I love you all!!
love HERMANA WEBB
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