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
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