July 2, 2012 letter

"In gratitude to God, Enjoy the wonder of each day." -Bethal Baptist Church

Welcome to July. Weird. Tropical Storm Debbie seemed like she was gonna give us some trouble, but at last she did not. We got a text from president last monday at about 6 that said the storm was getting bad and it was here to stay so we needed to get into our apartments and stay there until president told us we could leave. we asked him how long as he said it might be close to two days. but it ended up not being bad at all in our area more like a Floridian spring shower. But then I ended up getting sickly Thursday and we had to spend two days in the apartment anyways and I tell you what- being inside for 2 days while I was sick was TERRIBLE!!!!!! After almost a year of working super hard everyday I felt like the laziest person alive to be laying down for that long. I got a blessing from the elders and it said to be patient in getting better. Good thing he told me that, because I kept trying to go do things and we'd go out for an hour to go see a member or something so I could feel productive and we'd have to come back home for me to sleep some more. Then I thought i would be good as new when i woke up, and that was not the case... So we got a few things done friday too, but We had to keep coming in for me to rest. Saturday felt great to be back working again.

We had two AWESOME lessons yesterday. We went to go teach Gerdasia who is 10 and she had 4 friends over when we showed up so her mom said they could either sit in and be quiet and listen to the lesson or to go play in the other room. We told them all it would be a good fun lesson so they all stayed and we ended up teaching 5, 10 yr olds about the apostasy and the restoration. I had made a fun object lesson that is a puzzle the illustrate the apostasy and explain how it all happened. At the end we asked if there were any questions and of the girls said "I forgot what you said that big word meant" and so we asked if anyone could tell us what an apostasy was and one of the other girls said "Tts when people become bad and because they are wicked God takes his prophets away". It was a really fun lesson to teach. When we were leaving they kept saying, we always want to come here on Sundays so we can have fun and learn! It was so CUTE! we have to do something creative for all our lessons because thats how gerdasia learns too. 

The other lesson was with a girl named Tyamiami. She is LEGIT!!! We were filling up our car with gas a couple weeks ago and got in to pull away and saw them off to the side and felt like we needed to go talk to them so sis Hirst grabbed a family proc and we went and gave it to her. she read 1/2 of it standing there and said she loved it. We told her we wanted to come teach her more and she was really excited. So we set up an appointment and as luck usually has it she had to cancel a couple times because of crazy things happening (curse you SATAN!) but we FINALLY got to teach her yesterday. The lesson was so good. she said she is looking for a church because all growing up she didnt feel right about the church she was going to. She said she has gone to others too but they just never feel right. So she said she would come to church this sunday with us and read the book of mormon and let us teach her again. I am really excited she seems really promising. 

We took one of the laurals out with us tracting this week cause she wants to serve a mission and it was her first time. She got up and bore her testimony yesterday and it was so sweet. She said something like "I got the chance to go out and tract with the sisters, and even thought we got rejected alot... actually by everyone, and no one answered their doors, and no one wanted to learn It was great to be able to go out and share the gospel with people." It was so sweet :) 

I love you all and I hope that you are all doing well. 
The gospel is true and God loves each of us! 

Have a great week 
Sister Webb