This week was great!
First my birthday was awesome! I think it was one of my best birthdays ever! My comp was absolutely adorable!! I love her! She did a lot for me! They sang for me, she made me pancakes, we celebrated again in district class, and we ended the day with my favorite P____! She makes me so happy! She basically made me come to her house on Tuesday, and I did not understand why until I remembered that it was my birthday. That cake in the picture is bigger in real life than it looks. It was pretty fun. They all sang to me and we had great time. I continue loving that family so so much! After we went home and my companion made this stupid excuse to make me take off my backpack and give her my camera. (I should have figrued out that some thing was wrong.) So she took a bunch of random pictures with me and my balloons and then we went back to plan when suddenly the door for the bathroom opened up and the other girls in my apartment were there waiting with a bathtub full of water. They all three picked me up and dumped me in. They have been trying to do this to me for months because Weeber (the ten year old boy inside of me) usually finds dumb excuses to get them wet. Basically that means I always win all of the water fights because I have a ten year old boy inside;) So they were jealous. But they definitely had their revenge. After they let me shower and when I came out they had the mousse waitng for me. Don´t worry I fought back that time. We all ended covered in mousse. It was a pretty fun birthday!
Every thing else is pretty chill. We did not have a huge week. The fun day was when we went to see I____ again with Y____. That was really beautiful. The first thing he said was 'are you the girl that has two weeks to get baptized?' We all laughed and said yup. He was pretty adamant about getting baptized in two weeks. He said that now is should be one because last week it was two. We were able to set a hesitant date with her but she is still working a lot so we will see how things go. He was really sweet about you guys! He asked us about our family. I got to tell him a little bit about each of you and Lauren. He was really sweet about you mom, he asked your name and when I told him about you and what you said, he said 'wow, Melodie is a beautiful name, send my love and my greetings to her' and then he continued to ask about each one. He wanted me to send greetings and love to each one. He really is an amazing man! I wish you guys could meet him! We talked about eternal families and our hope that he can see his daughter again and I can see Lauren. It was a pretty beautiful conversation. There are always angels in his room and I am pretty sure they were both listening. It was a really beautiful experience.
B____ are doing well. We visited them on Wednesday and it went pretty well. The mom is really not ready but the dad is. It is frustrating when one is ready and the other is not, because the other drags the ready one down a little. But we talked about baptism and it was beautiful. They did not go to church on Sunday but we are hopefully going to do an awesome FHE this week with the bishops family so hopefully that will help.
E____ prayed with his wife and twins!!!!!!!! That is a miracle of a life time! I am serious that man never ever prays out loud! But thanks to his sweet kids he did it! I love those twin boys!!! According to P____, he was watching TV and his kids said that they had not prayed yet. E____ tried to say he was too tired but they would not hear it. And P____ took the opportunity to say you have to teach your children. She told us that it turned out to be this really sweet experience because they held hands and each said a little prayer! I love them!
M______ is progressing a lot. He is still smoking but he really likes the docrine we have to teach. It is a little awkward some of the things he says but we're just learning that that is dear old M____. He is a good man. He understands some eternal truths a lot better than I do and I like learning from him.
I got to go to primary this week! It made me so happy! They are having a hard time with classroom management. I know that stuff! I offered my help in a meeting and they put me in right away! I hope I get to continue escaping from relief society to the primary. It is so much more fun down there! We had fun even though they made fun of my accent;)
E____ is really sick. We went to see her today and she has a lot of pain. The poor thing is in a hospital that is pretty bad too. It was nice to visit with her. It is so hard because she thinks that God will take away her pain if she has faith so now she thinks that she does not have faith. I am so grateful for doctrine that says nothing about that! I am so grateful that we know that God does not give punishment. I am grateful that we have a God that loves us so much that He did the opposite. He sent His son so we could avoid the punishment of our own sins. He put the punishment on His own perfect Son so that we would not have to go through it. That is a God of love! It is a bummer when we have to go through hard things on earth but He has a plan!
I think that is it. It was a beautiful week. God lives! He has a plan for us! He is so good to us! He really is the perfect teacher. I don´t really have words of wisdom, just that He is so good! That He is involved! I always loved the phrase in the scriptures that says that He has the power to make us holy. But now I love it even more because I am experiencing it! The process of becoming holy is long, hard, rewarding, beautiful, and full of love! Sorry, I know I am corny! But I love it. I know I am far from what I want to be, but I am so blessed and grateful for all of the miracles He sends me along the way to help. He is good! Trust Him!
I love you all so much! I hope you have a great week! I continue praying for you!
Hermana Webb
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