Pray to be filled with His love.

On splits ....

Family!!

How are you all!?   

This week was great.  Really stressful but really great!  We have a lot of people who think we can solve all of their problems.... Hee, hee, hee, we can´t ... but we are trying! 

We will start things off light.  It is time for the drunk of the week!!  This week is one of our investigators (yeah bummer but I am over it).  We were walking in the street and when people see me they just start yelling things at me in English.  But what is really fun is when I yell in English back.  My companion thinks I am crazy but I like to play with the drunkies in the street.  We had a good two sentence conversation where they really just repeated what I said but changed a word.  They told me their English was very well, so I corrected their grammar and told them it is very good.  So they started a chant: VERY GOOD; VERY GOOD! The chant lasted a good minute and I was very entertainied!  They were very happy that the gringo girl actually talks in English too!!  I don´t know if we will be stopping by his house again.  Let´s be honest, we probably will -- there is not much else to do at nine thirty at night so we usually pass by for him. 

In other news I am learning a lot!  Life is hard, just in case you were wondering.  We have lots of members and investigators who are experiencing really hard things.  The lists are long -- and it is extra hard because I love these people!! It is challenging because we always have the same recipe.... um we are not mom´s, wives or grandmas; we do not have all the answers, but we have this awesome book that you should read and you should pray.  It is a great recipe, but I have been thinking a lot about the blessings 'promised' as members of this church.  They are not all that you/they think.  We promise they will be blessed, and people think the blessings are the stuff they all want.  They think they are going to be healthy with living the word of wisdom; they think their money problems are going to go away with tithing; they think all of their family is going to be completely better and have more friends in school.  These are not bad things to want, but those are not the promises.  I have found that if we let Him, God has a different plan.  He wants to shape us, fill us with love, and help us become His!  That is what He has promised!  The other stuff are blessings from Him too, but we can not be sure we will have them.  We have a recent converet that is super suprised at how hard it is now to not do drugs.  Before it was easy for her but now she is struggling.  No, God does not take the hard things away! Sometimes things hurt more because you have more love for people.  But suddenly, with the gospel there is purpose!  There is a reason for all of this suffering!  There is a hope in a better world and their is a true profound joy here in this life!  It is so hard to explain what it means to be a Mormon.  I don´t know how to say it in English, and so much less in Spanish. 

______ has a baptism date and _______ accepted! We are continuing to see wonderful miracles with ______ and her family.  We love them so much.  I can't wait to for them to be baptized.

I think that is about it.  I love my mission.  It is hard, because God is doing exactly what He promised me He would do, ..... He is filling me with his love.  I hope I will ays long but it is worth it!  I continue to learn exactly what it means to just put it all in His hands and have trust that He will do the rest!  I find that that is even harder to do when it is with other people´s lives that I love so much!  But God continues to patiently show me that His powerful, all-knowing hands are so much more capable than my passionate but week and awkward ones.  I love God!  He is so good to me!  I am so slow to respond and I try to turn around so many times in a day that I probably give Him a headache, but He still loves me and He still shows it.  He is good!  Pray to be filled with His love.  It is so much more worth it and we need so much more of that stuff in this world!  I love you all! 

Hermana Webb