Happy New Year 2016!
I'm so excited for this new year and for this fresh start! I hope
everyone is doing well with their New Years resolutions! It's only the
4th day of the year, so hopefully you've started out right, if not
it's not too late to start! This time of the year is perfect for being
a missionary because everyone is so excited to change and try new
things! Little do they know that going to the gym more or learning
how to do underwater basket weaving, or even being involved in
something more practical, is not going to have an affect on them
eternally. I know the only thing that they need that will help them
become the person they need to be is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They
cannot access all the blessings that we have, until they receive the
sacred ordinance of baptism and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Then in a year they can go to the temple to receive more ordinances,
which means more blessings! But even those of us who have the gospel
can still change, every day!!! The fresh new clean invigorating
feeling we all get from starting out the new year doesn't have to
happen once a year when the fireworks go off at midnight, but we can
feel that fresh start as we partake of the sacrament each week and
repent daily because of the atonement! Someone who was less active in
our ward told us what happened to her when she took the sacrament last
week. She said that she felt all of her worries just fade away and she
felt renewed as if she was just baptized!
Being a missionary, I thought my life would be different having
Christ's name literally on my heart. I'm still the same person: same
weaknesses, same strengths, just new experiences. Although I'm
basically the same person, I have changed and learned a lot. It was a
very neat experience seeing my friend Madison in Topeka. Well actually
she was first my brother Cameron's friend from college and then we met
once, but we're already best friends. She's a returned Missionary and
she got to come with us on a couple of team ups. While we were in the
car we had this really deep conversation about how throughout her
mission she kept being put in similar situations and she felt that
Heavenly Father was helping her learn something. I notice that too in
life that we have trials or choices or different tasks put ahead of us
that we've already been through before, God just gives us another
chance to prove ourselves.
Missionary life is just so great! I went on exchanges all week and I
was in different areas with a different sisters. We saw lots of
miracles! So we went to go see this one lady, who wasn't home so as we
were walking back we saw these people just barely getting into their
car. There was an old lady who was just about to leave and she said to
come again the next day at 12. We went back and she totally forgot we
were coming over, it looked like she just woke up and she was still in
her robe, but she still let us in. She just started talking to us
about everything in her life. After a while she let us talk and teach
her about the plan of salvation. Turns out she was taught by the
missionaries before and she knows the church is true! She said she
wants to give up her 12 cups of coffee a day, so she can be baptized
in January! That's the shortened version of the story but it was
pretty amazing I have to say!
God is so good! Miracles never cease! Moroni 7:27! Make this new year
full of miracles!
I love y'all!
Love,
Sister Webb
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