Oh boy, what a week its been! I am loving it here in Florida. The work is picking up and things are going well. I cant believe i've already been here for almost 2 weeks. I thought time would slow down coming to a new area, but I was way wrong. Its going by so fast. We have had some incredible experiences this week where we were definetly guided to talk to certain people.
We spend tuesday, wednesday, and thursday morning down at the community college here in town because it is the start of the semseter they let different organizations set up a table near the student center and talk to people as they passed by. Needless to say, I felt right at home being back on a college campus. The other missionaries werent really sure how to aproach people or to get them to stop and talk but I showed them the ropes and it was really sucessful! The elders kept joking that president should let the sisters train the elders because sister Greenwell and I were tearing it up. We found a few new investigators each day and have had some lessons with a few of them this week.
One of those people is a lady named sherlynn. She was meeting with the missionaries years and years ago, but lost her house because of some financial troubles and so she has to move really fast and lost contact with them. She said she was going through a rough time in life right now and could use the message that we had, so we went and talked with her yesterday. The spirit was so strong in her lesson as we bore testimony that the book of mormon and how the atonement of christ can help her with everything she is going through right now. She has insomnia and doesnt like to take medicine for anything, so she committed to reading the book of mormon when she cant sleep. She has really strong faith and kept talking about all the prayers she sends up to god everyday. I know that if she will keep meeting with us that she will find help through this gospel with all her problems she is facing right now. She is such a sweet lady, and i am excited to go back and teach her this week!
Another person we met this week (tracting) is Alfonzo. He is 79 and let us in immediatly when we knocked on his door. When we went in his wife gave him a look like 'why in the world are you letting these people into our house' and she left the room, but by the end of our lesson she had come back in and was listening to what we were talking about. He visited utah in 1955 and saw the mormon tabernacle choir perform and LOVES them. (He is a singer at heart and we had some awesome soul music playing in the background of our lesson) he brought the motab up at least 5 or 6 times, but he just kept saying: but the thing that I was shocked by, was that there were no black people in the choir.. does your church accept black people there? so we had to keep telling him that we love black people, but that there just arent very many black people in utah. He was alive when everything was segregated and lived through the civil rights movement. It was crazy to hear his stories. He said hes going to come to church with us one of these weeks and we hopefully will get to go back and teach him this week as well.
We found alot of other people that were touched by the message that we shared with them, but they all live in other missionaries areas, so we had to pass them on to the elders, which is always really had because I just want to teach them all! Hopefully the elders will be able to meet with them and the people will be just as accepting of them as they were with us! I had an interview with president this week when him and sister J passed through and he was saying that he is not sure if there is enough work in this area for two sets of missionaries and he is trying to decide if he wants to pull a set out or not. I get the feeling that I wont be here for long, especially as we are finding all these people that dont live within our area, I feel like the lord is blessing us with finding, but they are all for other missionaries. I guess time and transfers will tell, but thats just the feeling that I get.
I am so grateful to be on a mission! Seriously, it is the best. I have heard countless numbers of stories from return missionaries talking about how great it is out here, but you really cant even describe it. I never knew just how great it really would be. I wish everyone could go on one and experience the joys you feel as just a single person listens to your message and improves their lives because of it!
Love you all!
Have a great week.
Sister Webb
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