I am so content with His lesson plan.

 

Hey family!  How goes life!?  Mine is so good!  I love the mission.  I don`t know how God teaches people some of the things that He is teaching me without this time where all I think about and all I do is serve Him.  It really changes a person after a while.  Today is my Cumpli mes.  I now have five months in the mission!  Does that feel fast to anyone else?  I kind of feel like I left last week and then again I feel like I left twenty years ago with how much I feel like I am growing.

 

This week was super great!  First of all we went to a temple tour with one of our investigators.  One of the biggest perks of this perfect mission is we live right next to a temple and so when we need help for our investigators to understand what kind of happiness we are talking about here, we take them to the temple.  We took Erika with a lady in our ward and these other sisters did the tour.  The last part of the tour is when the people get to walk in and sit in the first doors of the temple.  It was so beautiful, because Erika could not stop crying.  She was so sweet.   Then she testified of this new life that she is super excited to have.  Then we watched this movie of when Christ was in the Americas. There was not a dry eye in the room.  She just kept thanking us and thanking us.   It was really beautiful!

 

Next for Paola and her family.  Like always, I love them I love them I love them!!!  Edgardo is this weeks favorite! He is changing so much! Richard and Pablo (the twins) are crazy!  Like I wish I could explain how crazy they really are, and before Edgardo yelled and threatened to hit them if they did not behave.  Now he is kind ... he uses kinder words and better punishment when they need it.  In church, I watch him hold his boys and kiss their heads as he listens to the speaker.  He gets this big smile on his face when one of them prays and is now actually helping his wife with all of the chores of the house!  AHHHHHHH I love the gospel!

 

We have only two weeks left in this cambio.  I am super scared!  I really don`t want to be separated from my companion!  She is super great and we have really become great friends!  In fact, when we do intercambios I freaking miss her.  Hopefully I wont get kicked out of my area either.   I really like this place!

 

Dad, I loved what you had to say about the change!  That is my thing here.  God keeps teaching me that now it is time to give it all up.  I always thought I was just fine.  I always thought that since I read the scriptures every day, prayed, and went to church that that was what God expected of me.  I am learning now that it is not a matter of what he "expects" of me.  It is a matter of if I want to like Him now or want be a God -- I have to start acting like one.  Of course that is going to take a life time, but it is also going to take more than just reading my scriptures; it is going to take a complete change in my heart mind and desires.  It is so beautiful, this plan, because God can do that!  He can make me a God.  He can take imperfect me, add a whole boat load of love and faith, mix it all together with some trials and joys and make a very happy God.  I am not saying I am a God!  I know that I am far from it but I can also see that with Christ's atonement (which is basically made up of love for us and faith in us) I can become that person some day!  God is so good at this 'game'!  I know I say that all of the time but I am so content with His lesson plan! 

 

Yesterday my roommate was sick.  So we did divisions and I stayed in the apartment with my sick friend during church.  This turned out to be beautiful!  I read and learned a ton in the house!  So much so that I could not stop crying!  It was super funny!  My roommates and companions just laugh now when I am crying. When my roommate asked me why I was crying and I told her that I was happy she just laughed and bore her testimony about the Lord, which of course made me cry more!!  It was great!  Some day He is actually going to do it!  After a long process of faith repentance, covenants and the gift of the Holy Ghost, I am going to have the desire to do good and only good!  And what I am discovering more and more is that God has a plan and can do it to everyone of us!  He uses these cute things like twin five year olds to soften our hearts and make us turn to Him because we love them so much!

 

I love you all!  I love this gospel!  It is true!  The small things that work together to change us make it obvious that we have a very loving God in charge!

 

Thanks for your love, letters and prayers.  I like lots of all three!!!

 

Love Hermana Webb