A really beautiful step getting there . . .

How are you all!?  I am discovering that it is kind of a bummer that I cannot talk to you guys as much as I would like. I want to tell you all how very much I love you but I can´t do it as much as I would like. So please take all of the !!!!!!!!!! as so much excitement that my love that I am sending over email lasts for days;).  That way you should all feel love from Carlie/Hermana Webb once or twice a day! I love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had a cute moment this week! People think we are so great! Which is awesome but also a lot of responsibility!  We are always called angels and we get really beautiful moments when we think that we are not making an impact and then suddenly we realize how much of an impact we are making.  It happened this week with a sweet manos activo that we have been visiting.  She is adorable.  She is a little grandma who does not want to go back to church.  She always seemed kind of frustrated when we would come over and so I did not think we were doing anything.  We went over this week and she let us in and told us that she was heading out to work for two months in a orphanage.  She is this little grandma that totally does not have the physical strength to do it but is going to do it anyway because she wants to show love to these girls who never get it.  She was an orphan herself and so she knows the story well!  We were pretty bummed and told her that it could mean that this will be the last time that we get to be together.  We asked her who she would like to say the opening prayer and she said she would.  She started to cry as she thanked God for the angels that he had sent to her house.  It was really sweet.  We did not think we were doing anything for her.  She is the angel!  She was raised in many different homes, and never had real parents to love.  She lost her husband when she was super young and has suffered through much more!  Yet, she has stayed tender and loving!  God is good to us!  The words to that song continue to play in my head: "the only thing that's good in me is Jesus."  It is so true!

This week was another really great week.  The work continues to progress here in Chile.  It is slow but we are pushing;).  Our most exciting bits of news are P____ and E_____. I love them so much!!! Are you surprised?  We finally found a night when we got to go do a temple tour.  That is one of the perks of this mission; the temple is in our mission so we get to do temple tours.  They loved it!!  We asked them to not bring their kids so it ended up being this really sweet night out and they got to go just the two of them.  We told them we would meet them where the buses pick us up at 8:00 and by ten to, they had called us like three times worried they had gotten the time wrong.  I am going to send a picture of them but they were so fun!  They were dressed very fancy.  We went with them and another family in our ward.  E_____ is so cute! He does not talk very much but when he does, it is usually something beautiful.  He is struggling a lot but he continues to push forward.  We talked about who the Savior is for each of us and he just said "my brother!" Then when we talked about baptism, I asked him how he felt watching his daughters get baptized and he got emotional and told us that he cried during both.  P_____ has this dream of E_____ getting baptized first and then baptizing her.  He really liked that idea!  P____ is as cute as she can be!  She knew the answers to all of the questions and was holding her husbands hand the entire time!  They were this perfect couple! Then we went to the temple!  We told them that their family can be together forever!!  We told them that one day they can all enter in their white clothes and look at the mirrors and see their family forever and ever!  It was so beautiful!  It is awesome now because they know their goal!  It is not just baptism!   Baptism is awesome but the temple is our goal!  Families forever is where we want to be and baptism is just a really beautiful step getting there! 

The other family that I am really excited about is the familia B_____! They are so great! They are progressing really beautifully!  We went to thier house last night with the Bishop.  It was the first time we had ever left with him and he actually did a really good job.  He admits that it is hard for him to share the gospel which is funny because his wife is totally like grandpa and runs around with all of her little pass along cards.  It was a really beautiful lesson about the plan of salvation. At the end, we challanged them to be baptized!  And they accepted!!  They don´t have a date yet, because we did not feel like that was a very good idea but we are going to try to set a date next week!  I love teaching families!  I love that they have the possiblity of being together forever!! I  love testifying of that!  In fact, I think there are people that are tired of hearing about it but that is just too bad!  Because the chance of having a family forever is just to beautiful to pass up! 

That is it for this week.  I love you all so much as always!!  I have learened a lot in my scriptures from the end of Ether.  It is a sad ending to a civilization and I was thinking a lot about how Satan got them there.  Elder Holland used the quote "a journey of 1000 miles begins with the first step" and said that it can be used the other way around too.  satan used small and simple things to make the people terrible beasts ready to kill even children.  I am not saying that satan is going to make us killing machines if we ever feel prideful but what I am saying is I don´t think these people ever wanted to become what they had become. satan can lead us in directions that we never wanted to go!  God wants to lead us to where we can have the deepest desires of our hearts.  satan wants to fill us with so much anger, pride, or lust that we are blinded and cannot even really see what is right in front of us for what it really is.  While God wants to lift us higher and not just help us see here and now for what it is but He wants us to see the eternal perspective.  satan wants us to focus so much on ourselves that we lose the joy of what life can bring when we lose even the most basic human emotions that make us happy.  God wants to fill us with, not just love, but His love, a pure love, that can conquer any weakness or sin, ... it is so strong that with the binds of His love even death itself loses its sting.  satan does not care how we get there just as long as we end up miserable.  God has carefully created a personal path for each of us that leads through His only begotten sacrificed Son so we can get back to His loving arms.  Mom always says that for satan we are just a number, but God knows everything! He knows our names and how many hairs are on our head!  So the lesson is don´t let satan change things to the way he wants us to see them.  It ends up hurting.  God does not want us to hurt without purpose.  I love being a part of this church!  I love having the hope that God will do everything He promised me and preserve me from that awful monster of Hell .... how Nephi put it.  I am sorry to focus on satan.  I am not ... I am I am just grateful that my God is so good!  He will save us no matter how terrible things look!  Just like President Eyring said in the last conference, 'We can be happy in these crazy times -- we just have to keep loving God and our families!' That is not too hard for me to do!!!  You guys make me happy!  Thanks for everything!  Share the gospel with someone this week! The world needs it!

Hermana Webb