4/18/16 Bear Necessities and miracles!

Dear Family and friends!
This week has been so amazing!! We've met a lot of interesting
children of God! For some reason we were having a harder time finding
people this week and helping people progress. It was such a neat
experience and testimony of fasting and prayer to see miracles and
find people who are prepared. We ended up finding this girl named
Hannah who is in high school. We had a girl in our young women's come
out with us who wants to serve a mission and we ended up knocking on
this door and it so happened to be one of her friends. It turns out
she already has a Book of Mormon! Also she talked to her friend about
being baptized and changing their lives around the night before we
talked to her. It was just so amazing to see how interested she was in
learning more and how much desire she had to follow Christ! We're
definitely going to teach the whole family and help them all follow
the gospel and be baptized! I know this work is truly God's work and
he leads us every day and miracles happen every day!

I didn't mention this last week, but For P-day a couple of weeks ago
we went rock climbing! Our stake president has a climbing wall in his
basement, it's actually one of the kid's rooms! I was pretty excited
when I heard it was approved by the mission to go climbing! I actually
started climbing in my dress when we first saw it... The next time I
was prepared with pants. They have an automatic belay and it goes up
pretty high like 25 feet. They even have holds on the ceiling! They're
a pretty neat family and they do all sorts of things like beekeeping
and cutting off chickens heads (Sister Manu wanted to do that with
them).

This week is transfer week! I'm staying and my new companion is Sister
Pritchet! I've served in the same area as her before so I'm excited!
And of course at the same time I'm a little sad for Sister Manu to be
leaving. She's been teaching me some Tongans and I should've taken the
opportunity to learn more! Well, I'm technically a Spanish missionary
but you never know when you'll run into a Tongan in Kansas! My last 3
companions have been English speaking and I've been in English Areas
but that's okay, we'll run into a couple of latinos one day!

I love you guys so much! I know how important it is to share your
testimony as much as you can! When you share truths, the spirit will
be there to testify. I know this church is Christ's only true church
and that President Thomas S. Monson is his prophet.  I know the Book
of Mormon is the word of God and should be studied every day. I know
Heavenly Father loves us and answers our prayers and helps us align
our will with his. Jesus Christ is our Savior and as we repent and
turn to him we can be forgiven. I'm so grateful for the ordinances of
the Gospel and how we can truly be forever families in the temple. I'm
so grateful each and every day to be a missionary and share these
things with everyone I see!

Speaking of sharing testimonies... I just wanted to share a funny
experience that happened this week. When we had fast and testimony
meeting there was a fairly new convert who bore their testimony and
talked about the Jungle Book and the song "bear necessities" and how
we don't need all of these things we think we need. We just need the
gospel and our families. And he actually started singing the song...
I thought I was dreaming for a second, but no it actually happened and
there were a couple of kids singing along!

I love all of you! Thanks for your support and prayers!! Ofa Atu! Te quiero!
Hermana Webb

4/4/16 Lots of meetings! Lots of inspiration!

So this week has been so eventful! We had specialized training with all the people from our zone and another zone. We also had Sisters Conference with all of the sisters in the mission (you can see how beautiful all the sisters are in the picture). Then to end the whole week with a spiritual bang, we had general conference!

For sisters conference we had the theme DOTS: depend on the savior. We wore polka dots (well not everyone got the memo:) and we read the book "You Are Special".  You're all probably familiar with the story. But basically these Wimmicks were judged based off of how beautiful they were, how high they jumped and how smart they were. People would put dots on those who weren't the best and they put stars on who they thought deserved it. It's so sad to see how we base our self worth off of what others think of us, or what we think of others. At the conference, we all had people put dots on our faces, but then at the end of the conference we had them all taken off:) We talked about our self worth and how the Savior see's each and every one of us as we really are. We also talked about all the women in the scriptures like Emma Smith, Mary, Hannah, and Ester and how we can emulate them. It was so good to see all the sisters and to see how I've come to know and love every single one of them (well at least try to... because there's about 72 sisters :)

General Conference was just so amazing! Of course I always have my favorites like President Monson, President Uchdorf, and Elder Holland, and my new favorite Elder Stevenson. I loved the message that President Monson gave about how our decisions determine our destiny. We have this wonderful gift of agency and we do truly decide our eternal happiness! And of course if we don't care where we end up, then our choices don't matter (classic Alice in Wonderland). I loved President Uchdorf's talk about how we can have hope and be rebuilt from the ashes. Elder Holland's talk was just a reminder of how we don't have to be perfect but we just need to be trying, and that we can do it :) I loved listening Elder Gary E. Stevensons talk about how critical keys are not only in starting a car (that story sounds familiar) but in Christ's Church. No matter how many times we teach the restoration, I'm always just so passionate that this is truly Christ's church because it has the proper priesthood authority! :)

I love you all so much! I'm so grateful for your prayers and support. I know that our Savior lives and loves us. Our Heavenly Father has a plan for each and every one of us. We are truly made to be glorious! :)

love,

Sister Webb