May 21, 2012 letter

I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i just had to get that out of my system because sometimes that's all I want to scream in my emails. It is the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life. I know that's super selfish to think about all the things I have gained from being here, but its true there is just so many blessings I have seen. I know I will never be able to give it all back and i will forever be the unprofitable servant that is talked about in mosiah 2:21

 21 I say unto you that if ye should ^aserve him who has created you from the beginning, and is ^bpreserving you from day to day, by lending you ^cbreath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own ^dwill, and even supporting you from one moment to another—I say, if ye should serve him with all your ^ewhole souls yet ye would be ^funprofitable servants.22 And behold, all that he^arequires of you is to ^bkeep his commandments; and he has ^cpromised you that if ye would keep his commandments ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth ^dvary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do ^ekeep his ^fcommandments he doth bless you and prosper you. 23 And now, in the first place, he hath created you, and granted unto you your lives, for which ye are indebted unto him. 24 And secondly, he doth ^arequire that ye should do as he hath commanded you; for which if ye do, he doth immediately ^bbless you; and therefore he hath paid you. And ye are still indebted unto him, and are, and will be, forever and ever; therefore, of what have ye to boast?
 I feel so grateful for all the blessings I receive and this week has been so good.

First off my new companion is the funniest girl EVER. I love her so much and I forgot 95% of the time that she is a brand new missionary. She works so hard and teaches really well. The only times I remember that she is new is when she stumbles through a door approach every so often. We have so many funny moments and we are really similar in personality (meaning we laugh at everything) so every time anything mildly funny happens we are laughing about it. Its great. someone yesterday at church asked if when we knock on someones door if they ask if we are really sisters because we look similar enough and we have similar mannerisms and what not. Its like having my real sister back with my again!

We started titling out days. At the end of the day we pick the funniest/coolest/scariest highlight for the day and we come up with a title for the day. Here are a few this week:

Tuesday: "soggy shoes and fallen through appointments"

It has been RAINING and POURING here the last couple days and Tuesday was the worst. the streets were flooded with water so we just tromped right through it all on our way to our appointments. We had a full day all set up with confirmed appointments, and they all fell through. This isnt really uncommon with missionary work but more than usual fell through, and we had soggy shoes the whole day long.

Wednesday: "Rejection on Ida..... I dunno about Ida"

So we had half an hour to go tracting so I told sister Hirst to pick a street to tract. She immediately flung open the map book and pointed to a street (revelation? inspiration? maybe, maybe not.) and it wasn't too far from where we were at, so we decided to go tract it. we started driving down the street and I told her to close her eyes and tell me when to stop and whatever house we stop at is where we will start. She did and the house we stopped in front if had no one home. So we started on our way and the next house was a very rude preacher who tore down everything we said, confused us with the Jehovah's witnesses and then got mad at me because i said Revelations in stead of revelation. That was rough... so we went to the next house and got rejected again by a baptist lady. Tracting time was up and we had NO success, only rejection on Ida street. So we went to our next appointment with a part member family. We had an awesome lesson about eternal families and she said that she wants an eternal family but she will never ever convert to the LDS faith. But we can still come teach her, so we are going to. Wednesday was full of rejection.
Thursday: "I've got a concealed weapon"

haha we went contacting and we stopped to talk to this crazy looking college age black man who has a toothbrush behind his ear. We talked for a minute and then told him a little about what we believed and asked him if he wanted to learn more. He didnt say yes or no he just kept telling us that he had a concealed weapon..... then he pulled out of his pocket three pairs of chopsticks. We left him and he had some pretty sketch body language going on as he walked away. We cant really figure out if he was crazy, if he really had a weapon, or if his concealed weapon was the chopsticks.

Friday: "The Devils Interference"

We had some really great lessons friday but SO many fell through because of stupid things.... we blame satan. Like 2 of our appointments fell through because they were blaring music inside and couldnt hear us knocking or ringing the doorbell. The first was catrina and she had some great soul music turned up really loud, so we decided to just wait until the song ended and try knocking between songs (which it was the longest song ever) but it didnt work. She didnt hear. and Amy had some crazy rock music really loud.

Saturday: "No trespassing.... beware of dogs"

We were tracting this street and went to knock on the door and no one came, but from around the corner on their raised porch came the biggest pit bull I have ever seen. He started barking so we backed away slowly. Then a couple seconds later a second HUGE pit bull came running over and looked like he was about to attack so when we were far enough away and just a little ways from the car we booked it away. It was super scary. People raise their pit bulls to attack and to fight here, so we were lucky they didnt come cause he was on his way off that porch. we drove to another area to finish tracting and somehow we missed the "no trespassing beware of dogs signs out front of that yard"

Sunday: "People in the south talk..... ALOT"

We had the longest meetings after church and all our appointments lasted so much longer than an hour. No matter how hard we tried to get out in an hour people just keep talking. At dinner we got out backpacks.... they were still talking.... pulled out PMG (where our lesson came from)... still talking... opened it up and asked to share a message..... still talking. half an hour later they let us give our thought. This is what it is like to teach in the south haha.  you ask one question and an hour later they let you get in a word. I dont think I am going to know how to really converse when I get home.

So those were some of our stories from this week. We had so many more. The best lesson this week was yesterday with a lady named Cheryl. She was especially cool because she came as a result of a lesson we shared with the keisling family a couple months ago. We taught them about eternal families and challenged them to give the family proc to someone in the coming weeks. They gave it to their neighbor cheryl. The other day brother keisling was talking with her and she told him she was having a rough time and asked him to pray for her. He offered to give her a blessing and to have the missionaries come over to talk with her. She agreed to both, So we went over yesterday and taught her about the priesthood so she would understand her blessing better and invited her to take the lessons and she agreed. The keislings are going to invite her to their house for FHE tomorrow to watch the restoration DVD. I am super excited about her. She could use the peace and the comfort that comes through this gospel!

I love you all so much!

Hope you have a great week.

Sister Webb

oh yeah, I moved apartments so my new address is:

111 Valencia Dr apt G

Tallahassee FL, 32304