5/11/2015 Mothers Day!

HOLA!

It was great to see my family after 5 months! I'm so excited for the new adventures in everyone's lives! Yes I'm going to miss a lot of exciting things like... my brother's wedding, but that's okay because I know I'm in the right place doing what the Lord wants me to do. :)

This weekend we are hoping to get 4 baptisms in Liberal. One of them should be from the Elders and the rest from us Sisters! It definitely is the month of miracles this May! One Baptism expected for this Sunday is Nyibol. She's from South Sudan but they moved here because there are horrible things happening over there. Her Mom was recently baptized about 4 months ago. So even though Nyibol is 8 years old and her mom believes strongly in the church, her mom wanted her daughter to be ready for baptism and she wanted her to know enough for herself. So we talked about baptism a lot with Nyibol but her mom and her were saying she wanted to learn more before baptism. So we held off talking about baptism for awhile. Then this past week we invited her for baptism. We didn't know what she would say, we thought maybe she'd want to hold it off until she read the whole children's Book of Mormon or until she was a year older... but we hoped for a miracle. Well... she really has a desire to follow Jesus Christ and be baptized! Es un MILAGRO! I'm so glad that she is being baptized for herself because she has pure testimony of Christ and her reasons aren't because of pressure from anyone else. We love Nyibol and her family!

We have been talking to more and more people prepared to here the Gospel. There are these 2 girls in high school, who live with just their mom, named Jada and Jai. The Elders gave them to us to teach! It was so awesome, last night we saw them for the first time. There was an instant connection. We talked to them for about only 15 minutes because we had to leave to go skype our families. We said the closing prayer and we were about to leave, but then I felt like I needed to invite them to baptism (because we are told to invite EVERYONE to baptism, even on the first visit) So usually I'm a little cautious to invite to baptism when I just met them, but I found the courage to ask them to be baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They said they would like to be baptized because they've seen the example of their teammates and how passionate they are about their church. They didn't fully commit to a date... yet, but they will soon! 

Since it was Mothers Day yesterday I thought I'd talk a little about what was said in Sacrament meeting. One member talked about how tenacious his mom was in getting him to go on a mission. She filled out all the papers for his mission and he just needed to sign. For a week, instead of getting lasagna or hamburgers... he got papers on his plate. He refused to sign it. But after a while he decided to just sign the papers and go. He was so grateful he did go on a mission and that his mom pushed him to go! Another person talked about the word mother as a verb "to mother". He talked about how it was hard for him and his wife on mothers day because they couldn't have any kids and they tried for several years. So they boycotted mothers day every year and stayed home. But even though she wasn't a mother, she mothered (or cared for) those around her. The story ended happy and they adopted 2 beautiful daughters.
 "Life doesn't come with manuals, it comes with Mothers." I love my mom!

I just want to end with a scripture: Mosiah 2:17 "..when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."

I know that when we love and serve others we really are showing our love for God. 

con amor,

Hermana Webb