Life is so good! It's a great day to be a missionary every day! This
past week a lot happened! We had a zone conference and it was almost
the most spiritual experience I had! Sister Bell (the mission
presidents wife) talked about having joy verses happiness. She talked
a lot about how we can find joy in the journey. Wherever we're at in
life we can have true joy!! She even talked about their trip to the
Virgin Islands. It was supposed to be their dream vacation (nothing
compared to our vacations) but they ended having to sleep in these
tents with Geckos crawling everywhere. Sister Bell and some of their
kids were not too up to the idea of having these creatures crawling on
them at night although a President Bell and the other kids wanted to
stay. Anyway there was a lot more to the story but they ended up
sleeping somewhere else. But that was what they remembered about that
trip was the things that went wrong. I know that we can find joy in
the little things. We can have joy even when everything seems to be
falling apart. I thought it was really refreshing to hear about this
in zone conference. And of course we were trained on how to be
challenging and testifying missionaries at the conference!
So we met this guy the other day and his homeless friend. His friend
named Critter was traveling from California to Kansas and he passed
through Utah and received a Book of Mormon. He read some of the book
but wasn't too interested so he gave it to his friend. Well rewind a
week ago, a recent convert told us to go see this guy because he just
moved in. I was on splits with that recent convert while my companion
was resting after she got her tooth removed. And we ran into him
outside. She remembered him from middle school (small town problems)!
The first thing he said was that he was looking for a church and
particularly wanted it to be in Salina! Well this is quite the
opposite reaction we get from people because people in Abilene usually
don't want to drive 30 mins to get to church! So that was really a
miracle! He's living with his girlfriend and has a 6 month old. He
wants a church that is centered on families! It was just so awesome.
How many times does someone receive a Book of Mormon from a homeless
person and wants to come to church before the've heard about the
church? I know Heavenly Father is in the details of our lives. I know
Christ lives and loves us. I know this church is the only church with
the true authority from Christ!
Love ya mucho!
Sister Webb
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