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Mision Chile Santiago Este
Cristobal Colon 6824
Las Condes
Santiago, Region Metropolitana
Chile

51

How are you all!?  This week was absolutely amazing! We are seeing miracles every day.

We are going to the temple with the G_ family tomorrow.  I am super excited.  They are this cute little family that got baptized a little less than two years ago ... but they are inactive.  They tend to avoid us, but we just sat on their porch until they came!! 

A_ and friends/family; she and her two daughters were baptized like four years ago.  Her daughter is kind of menos activa, but a great missionary!!  She invited her friend to have the charlas, and she is great! The friends name is P_.  While we were teaching her, a different man (T_) moved in to the house for a couple weeks.  He makes little kids cry because he has tattoos, and a mohalk and everything.  But then you find out that inside he is this soft awesome Mormon with a testimony and everything.  Both P_ and T_ don`t look like the believing type.  They have gauges in their ears, and it looks like life has treated them hard, but they both come when we have citas and listen attentively.  This week when we were teaching, I looked at T_ and asked him if he believed in the church, and he told me that he did but he knew that he had messed up so much that God could not forgive him because he knew that the things he was doing was wrong.  So I said "who was Alma?" And he told me the entire story of Alma!  Can I tell you how fun it was to listen to this man tell the entire story!?  Family night works, my friends!!!!  His mom seems like one who was good at family night!  He knows his Book of Mormon, and he still thinks about it!  P_ is as cute as she can be!  She really needs God in her life and she knows it. And F_ is just fun! She is helping both of her friends go back or enter the church. 

R_ and E_ are a cute couple with two boys. They are SUPER BUENOS!!!!!  Seriously!  The elders found them forever ago and I can`t believe that they did not get baptized.  The dad is sick with something but we are not sure what. We know something weird happened but we don`t know what because the missionaries did not write in the area book!  So we are finding out the mystery, but in the mean time we really like visiting them when we can.  (Which is not very often because they are both extremely busy.) They both work and have two kids.  The nana today gave us lunch. It was really fun and I am really excited about them. 

Y_ is a menos active.  She was really funny when we contacted her because she told us ... You guys will not be able to convert me because I already got baptized in your church!  She is awesome!  She told us that next week she is going to go to church and everything.  She always lets us in to her house and she listens to what we have to say.  She has two beautiful kids, and a husband that is really nice and really uninterested in our message.  But, we will keep trying there. 

The dad of the M_ family, J_M_. He is a good man, but it is really hard.  But he wants to listen and accepted to get baptized if he finds out that this church is true.  The spirit is always really strong in lessons with him because his sons are AWESOME!!!

P_ is this sweet man who we found looking for menos activos. The wife is a menos activa and we did not know who lived there. The man who opened the door was really sweet and good to us. His story is a hard one, but we'll work with him. 

Anyone know how to get rid of stray dogs?  Kevin is not actually a person, but a new pet who follows us around everywhere!  He makes me feel bad. So if you have any good getting rid of dogs ideas let us know! 

I love the Book of Mormon and the Bible!!!!  I loved studying them this week ... it was awesome!!  I learned so much about why faith is required of us ... 1) to be able to live without seeing, and prepare to one day see for ourselves; 2) to know without obvious proof; 3) to be sent here to be tested; 4) to learn how much we need Christ; 5) And, no wonder we have to wait until we can take the yolk of Christ upon us and learn of him so that when he comes we will see him in all his glory and we won`t have to be fooled like all of the people in the New Testament ... when He came and so many people missed enjoying His healing power!  That type of process takes faith. Actually the first step of that process IS faith ....  Faith that gives us the motivation to CHANGE or repent, which then gives us the motivation to make covenants with him that will bind us to him and help us enjoy his spirit so we can learn of him.  

So that is the invitation this week. Take his yoke upon you! Learn of him! We don`t have big enough brains for his knowledge, we don`t have hearts pure enough to feel love like he feels, we don`t have the ability to have the patience, humility and peace that he has.  But, if we take his yoke upon us we can enjoy those attributes, and just like mom says enjoy it as he replaces all of our weaknesses for his strengths!  And, when we enjoy his strengths, our burden really does become light, and our yoke easy!  It is through him that we become one and it is through him that we can have the power to see him as he is!  I pray for that as Moroni did! (Moroni 7:49 Moroni exorts us to pray with all energy of heart so that when Christ comes we will see him as he is. Because we will be like him!!) It is a beautiful journey! I love you all -- thank you for everything!!!!  Tell me your thoughts next week! I want to know what you all think! 

I love you all so freaking much!!!!!!!!!! 

Hermana Webb

Life is great here!!

Como estan!?

Life is great here!  We are working hard in Violeta Cousiño. This week we tried to follow up on all of the work that we had done in the last weeks. There is not a whole lot more to update. 

First, familia M_. They are doing really great! D_ has officially anounced that he is going to serve the mission and his family is going to get ready for that.  His dad came over last night late, and they called us to let us know.  So we went over and taught another lesson.  It went really well.  He is really open to the message now.  It was really beautiful to see what this last lesson did to him.  The first lesson is really good but it is hard to explain in little time so we did not get much in but he continues to listen and was really excited about the Book of Mormon. Now it is even cooler becuase his own son will be doing the same thing in a couple of months. 

The other family that we work with a lot here is this family from Colombia. They are great! It is a mom, dad, three sons and an uncle. The uncle and one of the sons has already been baptized. They are a great family. Everyone is actually pretty open to the message, except, the mom!  She does not let us talk about religion without fighting with us.  It is frustrating because her family is so cool!  We watched the Father in Heaven movie again with them and they LOVED it!  The dad had a HUGE simle on his face and could not stop! He was holding his youngest son as happy as could be and even accepted the invitation to go to church, but the mother was not so favorable.  So we will see what happens.  We are going to bring over a member to hopefully help us.

I have been studying a lot about our family history lately. That has been fun!  The hermanas came home and said how the entire mission has heard of my awesome book of ancestors, and so they were all looking at it all excited.  (We sent Carlie into the mission field with a little book with history summaries on several of her ancestors, which is what she is referring to.)

This whole week has been one of ups and downs.  satan is unfortunately really good and continues to try to fight.  I don't listen to him as he tries to feed my mind with doubts, but struggle when he tells me I am not enough.  Fortunately, Heavenly Father is really good at what He does, and he patiently helps me sort it out.

This week I had an interview with presidente, and it was really beautiful to see how involved God is! All of the things he had to say to me were exactly what I needed!  I also had a neat experience in discussing trials with my roommates (6 of us cooking in this HUGE kitchen) when one of them told me she had lost a sister too.  I had been really frustrated by the common "everything happens for a reason" and we should be finding the "good" in everything and being grateful ... like there is never anything to be sad about.  I felt physically sick at the idea of being grateful for cancer, because I am not.  But, we began to share more of the things I believe are true about mourning for the loss of those we love.  Then she just gave me this huge hug and told me that she loved me. She would always tell me, I don`t know why but you just fit really well with me! And she would always tell me that she liked talking to me because it was like talking to her sister.  Anyway, it was this really sweet moment of realizing that God really does care.  I don`t know if He planned to put us together at this time and in that way, but I do know that Love is a really cool thing. That loving and losing IS worth it, and that new friends and family makes life so beautiful! It brought me back to my perspective, and it reminded me How good He is! How he puts people in our path to love. I know I say this like every week but It is so fun to love! So here is the invitation this week.  Be like my president and my roommate.  Make people feel good about themselves!  God needs our help! There are so many people to love and so little time!  Find the good and love it!  It is so much fun than letting anger, jealosy or anxiety overcome those kinds of feelings.  I know that this is super corney but I mean it! The world would be so much better if we would all learn the joy that comes from loving and looking for the good and helping others see it. 

Any way I love you I am now off my soap box! I think you are all fantastic! I am so proud to be a member of this family!  I really liked what some of you all had to say about the people who have filled their lives with their own logic and emptied it of God`s love.  You are all right it is an empty life.  This week I am going to study why faith is so important.  If you want to join me I would love that.  Why doesn`t God just show Himself to us and then give us the commandments, and expect us to obey them. I love faith now. I think it is great but this week I am going to look for why it is necessary for our salvation.  Let me know what you all think.  Anyway I love you all so so so much! 

Love,

Hermana Webb

Mision Chile Santiago Este
Cristobal Colon 6824
Las Condes
Santiago, Region Metropolitana
Chile
51

I love his power and his grace!

How are you all!?  I have a great family!! I love to see how happy you all are in your cute little family!

This week was a lot of work! We worked and contacted people in the street, and then we contacted some more. So, I am sorry I don`t have very many stories. This week was a good fight against satan.  he is a bad little dude. There are so many people here who have just completely written God out of their story ... which I find so sad because He is the very creator of their stories.  There is this terrible idea here that says that if you are smart enough, you don`t need God and the ones who do believe in God are just those poor people who do not have a strong enough conscious or mind. That is uaually a bad sign when a people and a country starts to feel that way. But I choose to continue believing. 

We went to the M_`s house again this week! I love this family so so much!  I think they are part of what dad meant when he said that there were good things waiting for me in my next sector even though I did not believe him.  Now I am starting to believe him.  The dad was not there but they are awesome and brought someone else to the house to have a lesson because they are GREAT missionaries.  (hint hint to you guys, Missionaries LOVE it when they can do a FHE in your house with a non member!!!)  J_M_ is this awesome kid who has more love in his heart than anyone else I know.  He has a little brother who is starting to think about serving a mission. We went to their house to talk about how to learn more from the scriptures.  It was a great lesson!  The mom wanted to learn about eternal life, and so we went to the GEE (guide for the scriptures which is sooooo much better in Spanish!) We started reading about how to have eternal life.  The Bible said it well.  We read Christ's prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, and we read about how Peter asked Christ where else he would go to have eternal life.  We learned about repentance and faith.  And then to close it all up we read the powerful words of Nephi 32!  He summarized all of the Bible scriptures perfectly!  It was a good kick in the pants to remind us that we need faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost, and to do it till the end.  But then he testifies of our Savior who is mighty to save!  Nephi is AWESOME!!!  It was a perfect summary and a perfect example of how those two books support each other.  We did not plan it because we did not know what they wanted to study but the two books support each other so well that you don`t really need prior planning.  I love the Book of Mormon!!  I have shoved it down so many throats this week, but I hope they read it!  Because it is true!  It is powerful! and it connects us to the One who is mighty to save! 

Anyway, continuing with the M_ family, J_M_ started talking about how when he found out that his brother wanted to serve the mission he was super proud and excited.  Then suddenly the entire family started to cry. They are so close all of them!  It is so cute!  They started talking about how long two years will be but how worth it it will be.  It was so cool!  I think it was the first family that I have felt the same kind of love that we have!  It was pretty cool.  By the end of the lesson I was in tears ... again too!  I taught them about the emotional hang over joke. They liked that!  They told us that after we left, the dad was way excited and said that we really could come over when he was over. He was on vacations this week though so that is why we could not be with them. 

Other than that I had a relatively boring week.  I have a great companion and it was definitely my turn to have a hard sector;).  I got it!  But I really am okay.  Life is good!  I have been having a lot of really cool experiences with faith these last couple of weeks!  Taylor wrote me an AWESOME letter that answered a lot of my questions. I also read Mosiah 24:9-15 replacing the word burdens with doubts, task masters with fear, Amulon with satan, and Alma with my name. That is your homework this week.  It is really really interesting!!!  The Book of Mormon really is true! I love drinking deeply from the living water that comes from that book.  It is my door for revelation. I love looking at logical people and saying take it!!!  ... Read it!  Try to prove this book wrong!  Look for the errors, and while you do that, notice how close you feel to God!  I do it with confidence because the power is real and it is real everytime I open it!  Share it with someone this week!  This world needs the Book of Mormon! Mom and dad you will be surrounded with people who need it!  I hope that before you get home someone will have a Book of Mormon that did not before!  Taylor, you live all around people who don`t have a Book of Mormon, and Sara, you can give it to your florist or something!  I testify that God lives!  I know that Christ is mighty to save me!  I know that he is Mighty to save each one of us!  I love his power and his grace!  They are real! We just have to be better at accepting it. 

I love you all so very much! Thank you for being my world!  I really am a happy missionary testifying of eternal families! 

Hermana Webb

Mision Chile Santiago Este
Cristobal Colon 6824
Las Condes
Santiago, Region Metropolitana
Chile
51

I am happy doing God's work!!

Hermana Webb, you have been called to serve in Santiago, California, to labor amongst the rich in English and Spanish.

7/21/14
I wrote the subject like that because I feel like I am in California!  It is the same!  We work in a really rich sector with lots of brand new houses.  And, we need some of both languages. 

How are you all!? I am doing great!! I love reading about all of your lives ... you are all doing so well! 

So first of all, my new sector... I love it here!  I really do.  But to be perfectly honest I still really miss my old sector.  It is hard to watch them grow from afar.  But I have seen my other companion a lot so she has told me all about what is going on.  My sector has lots of fun problems.  President told me from the beginning that he was sending us as clean up control.  I did not know how bad it was. We basically are white washing because they did not leave many investigators behind.  But the good news is, the sector is full of miracles just waiting to happen.  We basically just contacted all day!  We walked and walked and walked!  It was a long week but me and my companion are good for doing clean up committee.  But we are very tired.  The miracle is it seems as though everyone accepts us!  We probably have about 20 addresses from one week!  That is a lot, if you are wondering!  Everyone says we can come back another day.  But lets see what happens now that it is going to be another day.  Let`s see if they let us back in.  :-) 

The sector is full of miracles. We have had a ton of people say to us that they don`t know why they are listening to us because they never do listen to the missionaries.  So, we know God`s hand is in it we are just need energy to keep contacting ... because we're tired!  

My companion is great!!  She is from Guatemala like I wrote last time.  She has a little less than a year and we do great together.  She is happy and loves the work.  I decided that every companion that I have ever had usually teaches me an attribute that I need to learn.  She is teaching me faith!  Her faith is so strong and I love it!  She suffers from migrains and she got a blessing and it was so sweet to hear her afterwards testify of how she felt.  She told me that the moment the mans hands were close to her head her pain went flying away.  She is a great support to me and we are going to get some good things done!  I think she is going to be one of those life long friends. 

The miracle of the week that was the most fun was with a new family. They are the M_ family.  There are two sons and the mom who live in our sector.  The mom and dad are separated but sort of not, too.  Not sure I completely get it.  The dad came over to visit his family and just in this moment we were there.  The dad came and said hi and then went back to the other room to rest. Then suddenly he came back out and started talking to us. I did not know what was going on. I assumed that maybe the mom and dad were both active members and still married.  So we started the lesson with the video "thanks to him." (You should all watch it, it is amazing!!!) It brought the spirit.  So I asked the question what you do to be closer to the Savior?  The mom and son said that they wanted to read the sciprtures better.  And the dad said "I want to replace the bad with good and maybe drink less."  So that was my clue that maybe it was not what I thought.  So I started asking questions and I learned that the mom and dad are not together anymore.  I also learned that the dad does not have a religion and that he had never listened to the missionaries before.  He started to explain that he did not know why but he just decided to come out and listen that day even though he had never done it before.  So we started talking.  And the son started in and gave palo after palo.  To give a 'palo' in spanish is like to hit someone but it is a metaphor it is like to tell them to stop being dumb.  The son started in saying things like, "Dad I love you so much and I know you have almost everything but you are missing God in your life!"  "How would you feel if my friend asked me about you and I said uh... I know he lives and stuff but yeah sometimes I talk to him... that is what you are doing to God!!!"  "You are always saying what I need to do because you want the best for me. But now it is my turn!"  "This is the best for you and I want you to have it!" (referring to the gospel)  It was so cool! I was so happy!  I did not even know this family but I was totally crying by the end with the mom.  Then my comp was like 'I want to show a video.'  I was thinking no! ... let the son keep talking, but the movie was perfect!!!!  It is on LDS.org it is about a father.  You all have to see it because it is perfect!!!   Anyways, at the end of the lesson, I said 'do you think that was just chance that you are here the same time as us?'  And he said "no."  And then I said 'do you feel something right now because I have never seen a son testify with so much power!?'  He told me that he did and he agreed to take the lessons!  Now every time the dad comes to visit, the missionaries are going to come to visit too!!!;)  J__M__ is awesome!!!  He is like twenty but can't serve a mission because of some sort of disability.  It is not mental - it is physical.  Which is a bummer, because that man teaches with power.  The other bummer is they just found a tumor in his brain.  I HATE CANCER!!!!!!  Why does it always take the best ones!!?!?  I don`t know what they are going to do to get rid of it, but I am worried for their family. 

Anyway.  That is all!  I love you all so much!!  I know this church is true!!  I am happy doing God`s work!  He is good at leading us and we are having lots of success.  Pray for us because we really need it.  We need some investigators!  I love you all! 

Hermana Webb 

Mision Chile Santiago Este
Cristobal Colon 6824
Las Condes
Santiago, Region Metropolitana
Chile
51

It is either true, or it is not.

Best wishes to Sister Paolantonio!!

After a year in Apoquindo, hellooooooo from La Reina!!

 .... I did have changes.  I am in La Reina.  It is the sector right next to my old one.  ;)  I am happy where I am.  My new companion is Hermana Zelaya from Guatemala.  She is ADORABLE!!  I knew her before and I am super excited to be her companion.  She is a recent convert.  She came on the mission after being a member for just a year!!  She is amazing!  She has beautiful stories and she loves to work and she hates getting places late, so this should be really fun!!

Being in another sector is exciting and really, really hard. I had to leave my home, Apoquindo. I am going to miss that place!!  I found out changes on Friday but I knew that I was going so I started saying good bye all week. It has not really hit me yet that I really am leaving.  The hardest part was definitely C_ and his family, Y_, and of course P_ and her family.  Wow! I am blessed! I don`t really know what to do now to be perfectly honest.  I now understand why people are afraid to go home.  It was hard to come here and figure out who I was as a missionary.  I knew who I was as a daughter a sister, a student, a girlfriend, a friend, a teacher, a Mormon, but I did not know who I was as a missionary.  But everything changed when I came here.  Now I don`t know how I will be all of those things when I go home.  I don`t know how to be any of those things in Utah. 

I know that sounds weird but there are some things that happen here that just make it so you are never ever the same. 

Here is my example of this week.  Ever since the beginning when I got here, E_ quietly listened, but does not really say anything.  At first I was afraid of him because I never knew what was going on in his head and when he did actually say something, he has such a deep voice, and talks so fast that I did not undersatnd it anyway. But then he slowly started progressing.  He started going to church every Sunday, he started reading the Book of Mormon, and he started asking more questions.  He has really changed!!  Slowly, E_ quietly started progressing more than the rest of his family. Things started to change!! Now E_ is spectacular!!!  I love that man so much and he has changed completely!! He got the priesthood this week and the bishop called in all of this family (which includes us obviously) and gave him a beautiful blessing.  He blessed E_, and blessed his family through E_.  It was really beautiful!!!  E_ had everything, except one thing.  He had never prayed with us.  Finally, last night I said to him: "E_, considering that you are a baptized member of the church, and you just received the priesthood, and it is only us here with you on my last day, will you please give the closing prayer?"  A big simile filled his face and he said, "Si!"  We all broke into a big YAY!!!!  Then he gave this beautiful prayer that I will never forget. It was short and simple but it was one of the most sincere prayers that I have ever heard!!  How am I supposed to be normal after that!?  I don`t know how to have a normal life and be a normal person!!  It is funny because I love baptisms, I love seeing people take big steps but there is something about getting someone to pray that has not prayed in a while. That changes everything!! 

We also did an AWESOME FHE the other night with Y_!!  She is adorable! I am going to really miss her too. We talked about how God helped King Lamoni change even though his family at the beginning did not want much to do with him.  It was a really beautiful FHE and I hope she keeps progressing.  She said she was going to go to church at the end of this month, because she does not have to work.  I hope she does.  She continues saying that she does not want to pray because she knows that if she prays God will tell her that this church is true and then she will have to change her life and she is afraid.  I don`t blame her ... it is a big step and I am glad that she feels it so strong. 

The rest of this week was saying good bye and the usual inviting people to church. I feel really good about this sector and I know my companion is going to watch it and take good care of it. I am going to miss all of the people there so much!! 

Just as Y_ is always saying if this is true, things have to change, I keep thinking and learning about how deep this all is.  It is either true or it is not.  Our family is either forever or it is not.  (I couldn't bear the hurtful doubt that I wouldn't see my sister again.)  The mission is either the most noble thing I have ever done or it is an embarrassment, and a waste of my time.  I learn more and more every day that this is a big message and a big commitment.  They are really big questions with really big answers.  I know deep down it is all true ... but I understand the thoughts of doubt and the fear of commitment people experience.  So, I keep studying.  I keep doing the work He asks me to do and I keep seeing the miracles. God is always ready to respond, and will answer my needs.  I think the key is to keep searching in faith for truth.   Mom always says that we are how she continues to feel the love of God and find answers to her heartaches and prayers even when it does not seem like we did anything.  But now I understand.  God often answers our prayers through another (as the prophet has told us.)  God is real through you guys!  God is real through the people in Apoquindo.  I don`t understand how it all works but it makes me feel sure!  I know God lives because of the way I feel about you people, and the people in Apoquindo ... It is just so real and so beautiful that I know it had to come from something (Someone) much greater.  And, that loving God has promised that I get to be with you guys FOREVER!!!  So, I keep moving forward because I really like loving and being loved ... FOREVER!!  I love you all alot!!!  I testify of our Savior, the source of all love ... and he is real, because I feel his love!! 

Hermana Webb

Mision Chile Santiago Este
Cristobal Colon 6824
Las Condes
Santiago, Region Metropolitana
Chile
51

In Hands that I trust so much more than my own ...

07-07-14 
How are you all!?!? I love you all so much!!

This had to be one of the best weeks of my entire life!! Let´s just start and end with all of the good stuff becuase there is a lot!!

On Tuesday night we passed by quick to see if there was something else E_and P_ needed for the big day and right when we walked in, I thought E_ was finishing a big glass of wine!!!!  I almost died. I felt like all of the blood went to my stomach and I did not even want to walk.  As we were talking I said to V_, "I don´t know how to tell you this but your dad is not going to get baptized.  She seemd surprised and said "but why!?" I told her that he had to live the Word of Wisdom.  Then she told us "Hermanas! Do you really think he would give up this chance he has to get baptized!?"  "He is drinking soda pop!"  "He only wants to get baptized!!"  It was such a relief!! He too, promised me it was pop .... glad I was wrong.

SO! Wednesday was just plain beautiful!! We got up early in the morning and went straight to P_´s house! E_ had finally asked for her hand in marriage on Monday, so they had these beautiful golden rings that had the name of the other engraven inside!  They are so cute!!  So on Wednesday we just helped everyone!  I did hair and my comp did makeup!  They all looked so beautiful!!  Then we all squished into the back of this van. It was even more fun because both of their families came to see the wedding. Everyone had squeezed into the apartment the night before.  It was pretty funny seeing everyone try to squeeze into a van.  We all went to the rejistro civil and waited there and I could not have been happier.  President Wright even brought Hermana Maciel to the wedding!!  It was so fun all together ... all of the people that I love!  I could not stop hugging people and giving men handshakes. :-)  The judge was super corney but it was good.  He talked about all of the life they were going to have together, and I could not help but whisper in J_´s ear every other second that it was not just this life, it was going to be forever!! That is pretty cool! That is what I want as missionary!  I love it when people get baptized and stuff, but when it includes their family, it just makes it that much better!  It was fun to talk with the whole family after at the lunch. Their family is all made up of active members menos activos and people who don´t want anything to do with us.  But we all got along really well.  After lunch we tried to be good missionaries and we went teaching for a couple of hours, only to go back to the church that night for E_´s baptism.  This part so was beautiful!!  E_ had a smilie from ear to ear the whole day!!!  He was so excited.  He was loving every second.  His baptism was great!!  Tons of the ward went and even better, all of his family went.  They are awesome!  V_ gave the talk on the first principles of the Gospel and she did great!!!  Then to end, R_ sang the first verse of I am a Child of God and we finished with him!! What a sweet day!! 

Thursday was just as sweet!!! We anxiously woke up and tried to get some work done and then went to B_ house because we drove to the temple with them.  They were all so nervous.  One of the sweetest things about C_ is when he got so excited when he found out that he can be baptized for his dad.  His dad killed himself and there are a lot of churches that say that that person is lost.  I love the message of hope the gospel brings!!!  So he got his dad´s name ready and his daughter got her grandma´s name ready (C_'s mom also died when he was really young.)  And then M_ brought her grandmas name. V_ and J_ also went to the temple!!  It was absolutely amazing!!  I was dying!!  The spirit was so strong.  You just can´t talk the temple up too much!  They were all really excited to go and they all loved it!!  Afterwards I gave them the test and they understood it all!  I had taken almost all of them earlier to the temple grounds to show them the outside and the first part of the inside and told each one of them that they could not go any futher.  Can I tell you how fun it was to welcome them in!?!?!  It just does not get any better than that, I am telling you!  I much perfer this!  I love to know when people really have changed their lives!  It really happened with them.  I am so proud and so happy!

Friday was still great because we had an activity with all of the moms and daughters. They showed a slide show and half of the slides were these girls that I have sooooo come to just adore!  P_ and her two daughters went, L_ and her daughter went, and M_ and her daughter went (with C_!  I don´t know why he came but I thought it was cute that he did!  He was helping with everything and cleaned the entire chapel afterwards!!)  I just really love these families!!  What a blessing!  

Saturday we had an awesome lesson with Y_.  She is the one who always went to the hospital with us (by the way I_ left that hospital ... we don´t know what happened to him, and have no way to contact him. BUMMER!) We went to an awesome members house and she is finally going to start progressing again! She is planning on going to church not this week but the next. She is funny she keeps telling us that she is afraid to pray to God because she knows the answer is going to be that yes, the church is true and she is going to have to change her life, which won´t be easy!  But she is awesome and God will help her do it!!!  We are going to a FHE with her and her son this next week to see if we can get him interested because I think she will feel bettrer if she has the support of her little family. 

Sunday was awesome!! This member in our ward (who I LOVE!!) came to me and gave me this present in the milddle of the meeting and then got up and testified of all I had done for her and her family (awkward but I love her...)  Then she told the whole ward that I am leaving.  It was funny because everyone came running after the meething ¿se va? I had to explain a lot of times that I still had a week to go but it was hard to get out of the building afterwards. 

Now I am here writing you!!  Good week, right!?!?  I am so happy!!  I am also so sick!!  I went home from church early ... I had like three mom´s calling me making sure I was doing better.  I love Apoquindo!!  M_ basically obligated me to stay inside the rest of the day.  We had an appointment with her and she called and said ..."even if you do feel better you are just going to feel worse if you leave so you should stay home."  I told her my mom would be grateful for what she did! 

Okay, so I continue to learn how personally God knows each of us.  Because it is time for me to leave Apoquindo, I started to worry about what would happen to all of these people I love so much who I want to have the peace of the Gospel stay with them.  So, that night I prayed to God a lot and I just asked Him to help them. After I finished my prayer, I layed down to just go to sleep. Suddenly this huge comforting feeling came over me!  God whispered that I did not have to worry because "they are in My hands just like you are!"  It was so comforting.  I thought about all that God has done for me and all of the faith I have that He will do for me, and I was overcome! I feel good going on to another sector and leaving all of these people in hands that I trust so much more than my own!! God is so good!  He knows my fears, and my hopes!  He really does love us!  I love that! 

I love you all so much!!  I hope your life feels as happy as mine! God is good! His way is a lot better than our own way! 

Love 

Hermana Webb

Mision Chile Santiago Este
Cristobal Colon 6824
Las Condes
Santiago, Region Metropolitana
Chile
51

satan is fighting so hard, but God is fighting harder.

Cute missionary companions/roommates enjoying a little Chile love!

How are you all this week!?  I am so good!!  I love to see how good God is to us!! I wish I could explain to you guys how happy I was last week.  Sometimes I am a little ridiculous!  It is pretty funny how over exaggerated I get.  But I just really, really love all of you and it is really fun to see how much God is in our lives.  I know I always say it but I continue to be amazed at how God makes me better through His Beloved Son and you guys. It is a really cool process and I really like being a part of it.  Especially when that process includes getting extra family members to love.  I like how God works.  He is good to us!!

(Extra family members) Carlie's nephews Alden and Evan to love!

This week was a great week.  I don´t really have anything new to report there is just a lot of work to do for G__ family. They are so wonderful. They make me so happy! E_ got home this last Friday.  We are kind of running around like crazy to get everything ready for this week.  E_ is so ready to be baptized on Wednesday and satan is fighting so hard but God is fighting harder.  Their family has progressed a lot.  We went to presidents house with E_ and P_ and President asked him if he was willing to give up tea.  I love E_ so much!  He is so quiet.  It is hard to know what he is thinking.  But when he talks I love it!  When president asked him if he was willing to live the law of the word of wisdom he looked at president like he was asking him if he had two eyes ... and said "yeah I can drink milk!!"  It was so obvious to him.  Why would he ever drink tea if that meant danger to his eternal family!? ...  that is just silly!  He is so quiet but he makes me so happy!!!  It is really cool to see how his wife helps him and how he helps his wife!

I have been thinking a lot about the Atonement this week, and about God´s promise to make weak things become strong unto us. He is so good!!  I really believe that.  I have extended that understanding to families too. I love reading Ether 12 and instead of reading the word men putting in the wold couples, or families.  Look at the hope!  God will not only make me personally better, but if I go with my family to Him, he will also make weak things become strong unto us.  What a beautiful blessing.  There is this quote in a stress book we have that says that we as missionaries get front row seats to the effects of the Atonement ... and it is true! 

As for other fun news everyone is ready to go to the temple this week!  I love being a missionary in the same sector all of the time!! On Thursday I will go to the temple to be with V_, M_, J_, C_, M_, and A_ all in the temple at the same time!!!  R_ is not big enough to go still, and E_ will be in the north, but that means every single one of my converts that could will be in the temple at the same time!  That is pretty cool!!!  I am pretty blessed!!!  C_ is going to do the work for his daddy and A_ is going to do the work for his mommy. M_ is going to do the work for her grandma!!  Miracles are real!!  What a blessing! 

R_ came to church this week!!  V_ went to his house and kicked him out of bed.  I was not there becuase we were in division but my comp said that she finally just said, "look, R_  I am tired of this!  Why did you get baptized if you are not willing to complete the covenants you made.  Get out of bed and come to church!!!" I love V_!  She is going to be a great missionary!  Her cousin also came to church.  He is another little boy who is great without much family support.  His family are work-aholics, and so they do not really support him.  The last time that he had a date to get baptized the mom suddenly decided that she wanted to baptize him in the Catholic Church.  But, he really likes going to church so I am not sure what to do.  He is really great though!  He loves going to church.  He is always ready when we pass by to go; he is reading the Book of Mormon, and he loves the FHE that we do at P_´s he will just have to wait a little to actually get baptized.  The other night we played mom´s game and another game we made up.  It was so fun.  We ended the night all singing together.  I love to sing!!  The Spirit comes running!!!! 

This week was kind of a crazy week with ups and downs of missionary life and dealing with all of the emotions that come with it, but I've sort of worked out a new theme ... just keep dancing.  I dance all over the place, so it works for me.  God has blessed me with a feeling that I don't necessarily need to change, but I feel motivated to dance all of the way home.  God is so good to me.  He is willing to wait for me, willing to listen to me, willing to accept when I am a little clumsy, and that he accepts me as His servant, even when I doubt myself.  I feel sure that Christ and his Atonement are real!  I feel sure that if we just ask in prayer with faith, God will answer!  I love being a missionary!  I love helping people come to Christ because in the end they just help me!!!  I love you all ... this gospel is true! Have a great week!

Hermana Carlie Webb

Misión Chile Santiago Este
Cristobal Colón 6824
Las Condes
Santiago, Región Metropolitana
Chile
51