10/26/15 Have Faith But Don't Be Gullible :)

Dear Family,

This week was so amazing! Well every week is amazing because it's the best 18 months of my life! We've been meaning to visit this less-active part member family for a while. But since they live over 30 minutes away in Johnson we didn't want to spend our miles going over there. Well we finally went to their house last week. Turns out it was perfect timing because the father broke his leg from an accident at work. We asked him if he'd like a blessing and of course he wanted one. There aren't too many families to contact to get a blessing, and no other active families in Johnson speak Spanish. Well we asked this one family who has 4 young children and are often pretty busy. To our surprise they all came over right away to give the blessing. It was so amazing because you could feel Christ's love in the room for these people in need. They haven't been to church for awhile, mainly because there aren't too many Spanish speakers there. But having this family there, I think they saw that we are all children of God and it doesn't matter the language we speak. They even made an effort to try to speak Spanish and English and we translated the rest. He gave a simple powerful blessing of health and that he'd be an example to his family. We all felt the spirit so strong and I wanted to cry. After they left, we told them that, "We can feel the spirit in any language." Well I guess we said that part in Spanish, but you get the idea. They committed to start coming to church! Then we had dinner with their son who's wife and daughters haven't been baptized yet. There's like 15 people total in this family and if one of them comes to church, we know all of them will come.They are all so close to coming to church and partaking of the atonement of Jesus Christ.

I have a couple of funny stories. One of them, I was on exchanges in Dodge City with one of the sister training leaders. We had lunch and dinner with members and both times there were 2 other sets of missionaries. The Elder mentioned a guy named Bob Sagget that I needed to find in Ulysses. They mentioned him at least 50 times during lunch and dinner. I thought they were making this person up, but then I kept thinking, why would an STL go along with it since sisters are way more mature than Elders? And why would an Elder who's used to be the Assistant to the President, make something like that up? So I went along with it. When we accounted for that night I was asked to say the prayer. I didn't pray for Bob Sagget and they told me that I needed to pray again. I was sure he wasn't a real person, but then after 3 minutes of silence, waiting for me to say the prayer, I said it again. I prayed with full faith we'd find this Bob and that he'd be baptized. Well after asking people in Ulysses and praying to find this Bob. The Elders in Ulysses finally told us that Bob was indeed a real person but that we wouldn't find him here. They told us, just right before ward council, so we wouldn't bring him up. Ok I hope all of you know who Bob Sagget is. He's the guy off of "Full House" and "America's Funniest home videos". I'm still laughing about this with my companion. I'm so gullible!

The other story was on exchanges. We went to this one house and we were talking to the mom, but the 8 year old kid would not open up at all. We noticed the mine craft book he was holding and asked questions about it, and we couldn't get him to stop talking. After that we talked to him about prayer and taught him how to pray. We asked him things he was grateful for so he could say it in his prayer. Then he left the room to grab a piece of paper. He started singing a song from school about what he's grateful for. It was funny because half of those things didn't apply to him but he still prayed that he was grateful for his dog, that he used to have and other random things. I learned a lot this week on just how we need to have Charity for people we're sharing the Gospel with, and when they see that we genuinely love them then they will be more receptive to the Gospel.

I love all of you so much! I really wish I had time to just write everyone personally and write 15 pages letters on just how grateful I am for every one of you. :)

I know that each one of us can be disciples of Christ and that when people see us, they will see Christ in our eyes.

Mucho Amor :)

Hermana Webb

10/12/15 Simplicity of the Gospel

My dear Brothers and Sisters!

So guess who is in our ward? JoAnn Dew!! Yep she's related to Sherry Dew, that's her mother!! I remembered that Aunt Paullas roommate was Sherry Dew, so I asked her if she remembered Paulla and she does! JoAnn isn't here all the
time though, she lives in Utah, but she's here in Ulysses to check the
farms. So it was really neat meeting her and talking to her about General Conference, especially since she is best friends with the 12 Apostles! Elder Uchtdorf gave her a kiss on the cheek. She said she didn't want to wash her face ever again! She is such a neat lady. She also knows Elder Nelson (who is now President Nelson) and sister Nelson.

Speaking of General Conference... It was such an amazing experience. Literally every talk I was on the edge of my seat. I think General Conference is a lot like the Super Bowl for Missionaries. I'm so grateful for the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that the Head of the Church is Jesus Christ and President Monson is truly the Mouth Piece for him as well as the 12 apostles. I know that the Mantle was truly placed upon Elder Rasband, Elder Stevenson, and Elder Renlund. I loved every single talk in conference and I'm trying to figure out which one to speak on for my talk next week in Sacrament Meeting.

This week we've met so many wonderful people. I'll tell you a couple of stories that Stood out. Well we ran into this lady who speaks Spanish, one night and we didn't get a chance to talk to her very long since it was getting late. We actually ran out of Spanish Book of Mormons since we moved to a new place and had very little supplies. She seemed interested but very busy with her work with McDonalds. Well a week and a half later we were walking down the street and decided to go up to a house that some little kids were playing in the front. The same lady just walked right outside and she invited us in. She was at her niece's house taking care of her kids and we just happened to be prompted to that house. We finally were able to give her a Book of Mormon. She was looking through the book and opened up to a scripture in 2 Nephi 9 and she read a verse and said how beautiful this book is and that she'll read the whole thing cover to cover! It was such an amazing experience! I know the Lord leads us in the right direction always!

Another amazing experience happened yesterday. We were invited to lunch at a members home after stake conference. We planned what we were going to talk about before and make it spiritual for that family. Turns out they had more of their family come and a nonmember came. We actually thought this girl was a member, but after talking to her she wanted to become a member. She's good friends with someone in the family and was at church several times. It was such a good experience talking to her because she really wants to learn more and be baptized one day. We definitely had to switch up our lesson in order to teach her as well. 

 We have found so many people just by having more lessons with the members and helping them be a disciple of Jesus Christ. We've been trained a lot on how we can better help the members because think of how much good 200 missionaries in a ward can do rather than 4 missionaries in a ward! We are starting to help families with their missionary plan. Surprisingly their are only 13 steps!

I know that the atonement is real and that we can overcome anything with our Savior. I know that Heavenly Father knows our hearts and answers every prayer. I know that Joseph Smith Restored the true church on the earth and I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God! This is my simple testimony that has kept me strong. I know there is beauty in the simplicity of this Gospel.

I love you all,

Hermana Webb

10/5/2015 Finally Home

10/5/2015

Dear Familia,
So we got a home in Ulysses! It's right behind the high school
football field, and ironically our first night there was homecoming.
We could literally just look at the score of the game as we were going
into our house that night!
Conference was so amazing. Words cannot express how I felt while
listening to these inspired leaders! So I promise all is well but I
spent too much time p day playing the piano so I didn't get as much
time to email! I love you all so much! Thanks for all that you do and
all of your prayers!
I know the savior lives and we need to center our lives on Him! Keep
the commandments  because of your love for the Savior and Heavenly
Father!
:)
Love,
Hermana Webb