2/24/14
How are you all!? I am so great! We had such an amazing week! I wish I could explain how happy I am! I also had a good .... 'Wow! I really love and miss my family this week!' Don´t worry: it was not actually a bad thing -- I just really like you guys! I got to see you all singing to Sara at the Marshes and it made me really really happy!! Happy birthday Sara!!! I love the Marshes! I also really love that singing plate! ... Classic!
This week was awesome! M____ is doing great! He is still reading and progessing. His last two problems are that he still believes in rencarnation and he can´t give up stinking smoking. The rencarnation thing is really funny. I think it is almost a pride thing now. He just does not want to "cave to" everythng. He will get it. It is actaully really fun to watch as God teaches him. He wants to learn. Everytime I go I can see something else changing in him. He loves metaphors and so God always uses them to teach him. Libro in spanish is book and libre is free. So he just made this sweet connection that knowledge can make you free. So God is good to him.
B______ is also doing great! There is this part in Preach my Gospel that says that people are like icebergs. That when you just get to know them you cannot know all that is under the surface. I believe that more and more every day. C_____ has had a really hard life! His dad commited suicide when he was 14 and his mom died shortly after (I think of cancer.) He had to raise his other siblings without parents. Now he has a family that is falling apart again. I had no idea. I thought they were just a happy family but it looks like there are more problems than it seems. This gospel is good! We have the hope of having our families forever!! They are ours! Relations like that are worth fighting for. To the world, they come and they go, and nothing can last forever, but God has a different plan! A plan of progression and relationships that last forever and ever! It feels so good to say that to people! It helps them understand and remember why they got married in the first place. This really is a message that blesses every kind of life.
M____ A___ is a new investigator that is actually an old investigator. She is the one that was a huge bummer like 6 months ago. She had a date to get baptized and then she called us and told us she did not want us to come back. She told us that she just could not live the life that we live and that she could never be enough. It was a bummer when she was saying it because she was crying pretty hard. After we left that lesson I cried for a long time. But she let us back in this week!!! It was awesome! I was super happy! We had a lesson that was pretty entertaining. She thinks we are all perfect Mormons with perfect families. She said that we are all perfect with a mom, a dad, kids, and a dog. She said 'I am falta the dad and the dog so I just would not fit in!' I felt so bad because that is totally what I was blessed with. I did not know what to tell her except I know that God loves us all the same! I know that He has a plan for her that is going to help her be the happiest possible. We went with cute Hermana Mondaka who has not been able to have kids so she was able to convince her that we are not all robots or fit that description. After all that she went to church on Sunday and she liked it!! She was already planning with her cute daughter B____ that they are going to go again! I am super excited! They are a sweet family!
D_____ is our other miracle this week! I am serious; I don´t know why we lucked out so much but we really did! She is the sister of M_____. D______ did not really want anything, but she is now progressing like crazy! We went to her house on Tuesday and she asked us to come back again on Thursday which is a very good sign. When we came back she said, 'Hermanas I have something to tell you. Yesterday I was crying at like 3 in the morning. I could not stop. So I said a prayer and the weirdest feeling came over me! It was total peace. I will never forget that feeling. And then even more, my friend texted me at three in the morning to find out how I was. It was awesome!!' She is so ready! L_____ was really happy! That family is another one of those icebergs that Preach My Gospel told us about. It makes me happy to try to help them! L____ works so hard and she wants this so bad for her family!
I think that is about it. I am pretty happy! God has been so good to us this week! People are progressing and becoming better every week! It is so fun to watch God work. This week, God taught me peace. We showed the video how to have faith in Christ a lot this week. (It is a great video!) And I found it really interesting that almost every miracle that Christ performed, he always declared peace first in some way. He says 'be not afraid, or peace, or be of good cheer'. Usually he would have to say that before he taught his apostles because their hearts jumped to fear. I learned this week ... again ... that I have an anxious heart. It often jumps to fear. Which is why I find it really beautiful that God is teaching me how to have peace. I asked Him to help me learn and my first step is to be at peace. There is something really beautiful about accepting the Savior as my Savior. There are so many reasons to fill my heart with fear. This world is full of them. But that is why Christ told us so many times ... 'please, just know me!' 'Find me in everything so that satan does not even have the chance to fill your heart with doubt and fear!' He wants us to be at peace! He wants us to be of good cheer! He wants us to trust in his guiding, loving hand and hope in a better tomorrow that becomes so strong that it is an anchor to our souls. (Ether 12:4) I have so many questions and I get so anxious, but I know what I have felt! God is good! He loves us and He has a plan that means families are forever! I love you all so much! Thanks for all of the emails! They really make me so happy! I hope you all had a great week!
Love Hermana Webb
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