Adios Hermana Martinez!
We will miss you!
We are so blessed ... so thank God by sending a referral to your missionaries this week!!
I just want to make a shout out to mom's cute packages! She is adorable! I love that woman! I am pretty sure my whole ward loves her too. The different kinds of silly puddy that she keeps sending provides for hours of entertainment for all of sacrament meeting and not just for the little kids;) The posicle stick game has been a classic here! I have now played it with my roommates, the twins, and V__ and J____. I made a game especially for her family. The twins were actuallly pretty good at it! They run around like crazy all of the time but it is interesting how much they get out of the lessons. When we played it with my companion, and the girls in my pension we got some pretty good quotes. It is pretty fun to play in Spanish! And then because my companion just left, we were at the temple for a while and so me and all of the small children of the big group of people played with bubbles and popsicle sticks! I wish I had a picture it was pretty classic!
So my companion went home this week. Can I tell you how hard that makes being a missionary? We did not do nearly as much work as I like to do. But it was a good week anyway. I learned so much from her and about her. She had a lot to teach me with how good she was to me and other people. I don´t know if I am ready to give her up yet but I guess there really is not an option now. I'm sending a lot of prayers home with her because she has a lot to face when she gets there. I will miss her. And now I am getting a new companion. There are so many mixed emotions this week.
So to make things even crazier, I found out I am going to be a trainer! There are nine elders coming in and one Hermana. It was pretty funny today in the meeting with all of the trainers, and President kept saying, and so elders, ... and Hermana Webb ... It was pretty funny! It is crazy because before I had this companion that has experienced it all. She is tired and full of wisdom. And now I know nothing about my new companion except that she is from Argentina, she is very new and she is fresh. She is full of energy and will teach me how to work harder. It is lots of conflicting feelings, but it is good.
P___ is as cute as she can be. She really taught me this week. I love what she does because she finds all of these awesome scriptures that are classics in the Book of Mormon that we read all of the time that have the interpretations 'fixed'. She takes these scriptures and turns them around and learns more from them and helps me learn more from them too. She read the sacrament prayer and said that it was like if we eat the bread of Christ which could be any of his teachings, he will give us comfort. She took that as a scripture that is there to help us find peace. Then she read Alma 32 about the seed and compared it to her kids, and how if we care for the seed or hijos, they can grow and become strong and good. It was really cool! She helps me see things differently. She told me that she was not going to my goodbye thing at the temple when it is time for me to go, because she said that it is going to be too hard. We just held each other and cried. She makes me so happy! I am getting more and more corny as time goes on!
C__ is doing really well. I am so proud of him because he wants to change and has shown God that he wants to and is willing to do it! I love that this gospel brings the good news of change! What an awesome message we have that He is mighty to save! He really is! He continues to save me and all of these people here that we have the privilege to teach. It was been fun for me to share about my mom and dad when people are looking for advice about their family. I am really grateful for loving parents who looked for the best for us.
We went to G___ (She is the new reference we had like two weeks ago) house again. She is doing well. We had a good converstion about why she belives in God, even after all of the depression she has experienced. She told us that it was thanks to her mom that she still believes. So the family's win again!! It is amazing to me how much we need our families to believe. It just makes us better! We are going to try to teach her mom this week too. They are really good Christians.
C___ is my favorite ever! She is the menos activa who lives in Yolanda (the only scary part of my sector.) She lives there and takes care of her grandkids. She is probably one of the most saint-like people that I have ever met. She has suffered so much. I am sure I have written about her before, but she is the one who lost her son because someone killed him and then lost her husband a year later to depression for what happened with their son. This week she told us that she is going to do their work in the temple (or have someone do their work) I am so happy for her! When she said it, the spirit filled the room! I know Lauren was there and at least one of C__ family was there! God is so good! I am so glad that Lauren knows someone that C__ knows! What a blessing! I love that woman! I also really love my little sister! Someone is really excited to get baptized. I got up from the table and said I am really sorry Hermana, but I just have to hug you! It was a really fun experience. I am so corny, but I am such a happy corny that I am okay with it!
I think that is it! I really love you all so much! I hope you all know how much! It grows everyday! I cried a lot today writing you guys. You all just make me so happy! God is good to us! We are blessed! And we should thank Him for it! So send a reference to your missionaries this week;)
Don't forget to study Preach My Gospel with me ... chapter 6 and send me your thoughts. I made two graphs with three columns each. The first column was the Christ-like attribute, the second was how that makes me a better student/teacher, and the third was examples of how Christ showed that in his life .... and then I tried to find scriptures for each one or I used some examples from my life. It was a really cool way to look at it. (Thanks mom for studying with me this week I learned a lot from you!!! But I want to hear from the rest of you!)
Anyway I love you all so much! I hope you have a great week!
Hermana Webb
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