June 25, 2012 letter

"Exercise daily: run from the devil and walk with god"

Hello Hello! 
Another week gone by, and i can hardly believe it. Its almost July. To celebrate I will start off with a joke I read on a laffy taffy that someone gave to me while we were talking to them at the bus stop... (answer will be at the end of the email) Why did the clock die? 

This week was crazy. First off, as a couple people mention... Tropical storm Debbie is in the gulf headed at the pan handle. what does that mean for us? LOTS OF RAIN! Its pouring out there! nothing major has happened no power outages or evacuations.... just lots and lots of rain, which it does feel much different than any other week... it always rains here and when it rains it comes down in buckets. 

I dunno what to talk about this week because we had alot of downer moments, but I like to try and stay positive. On the worst days we played a game all day where we just listed off all the things we were grateful for to keep our spirits up... it works, so if you even have a bad day just start thinking about all the blessings you have been give and it will turn your frown right upside down. 

Just to give you a little snippet if you are at all following the gators I talk about, Cheryl Dropped us this week :(. she had agreed to come to one of the 5th ward baptisms with us and we got a text Saturday morning from the sisters saying that the baptism was canceled (really just postponed). so we called her to tell her that we wouldnt be picking her up anymore for it, but asked her if maybe we could come over and have a lesson for us. She told us that she wanted to take a break and figure things out for a while but that she wanted to stay friends and keep in contact. Dropping investigators (or them dropping us) has so many similarities to breaking up a relationship. Just another real life application that can be drawn from the mission life. I am way sad because I have never felt the spirit as strong as I felt in her first lesson (maybe not never... but pretty close) and I know that she felt it too, so those ones are always much harder to let go of. 

Also saturday our favorite member missionary Brother Clark passed away from a massive heart attack. He was the greatest person ever. His wife sometimes had to tell him NOT to do missionary work everywhere he went (she said sometimes it wasnt appropriate). We went over to their house last week to get ideas from them on how to get the ward excited about member missionary work and he told us all his great stories and the way that he give pass along card to everyone... he said like a month ago he was in the middle of down town salt lake eating at the new mall and he was giving pass along cards to the workers at the chicken place he was working... he ended up giving away 3 book of mormons right across from the SL temple. I would have never thought to try to talk to anyone in SL.. .cause were in utah everyone is mormon. Its sad that he is gone, BUT lucky for us we have the plan of salvation to go on and no need to be sad because hes on the other side rockin the spirit world with his enthusiasm for missionary work. 

on the upside: I had alot of cool spiritual promptings that ended up being awesome when we followed them. I felt like we should go see one of the ward members, which was weird because we didnt need any member lessons for our numbers but we went to visit and she had just had a huge missionary moment that day when her teacher in class started talking about mormons and she got to teach the whole class about what we believed and there were a couple people that were interested so she needed some book of mormons... then we showed up.

Another one that made our day: we play this game in the car... its like the perdittle game (where one headlight is out) but instead we call it lamanites. So if both headlights are working its a nephite (we dont call those ones) if one headlight is out its a lamanite, if a secondary light is out (like the brights etc) its an ishmalite and if there is a break light out its a amalakiahite. we also added the motorcycle/scooter... thats a rameumptum. When you see one, you call it and hit the celing. So we always talk about how awesome it would be to see a biker gang go by and this week we were sitting at the stoplight and there were EIGHT RAMEUMPTOMS in a row. we were so excited to hit the celing saying "RAMEUMPTOM, RAMEUMPTOM, RAMEUMPTOM, RAMEUMPTOM, RAMEUMPTOM, RAMEUMPTOM, RAMEUMPTOM, RAMEUMPTOM,"

We've been sharing a lesson with alot of the members on the importance of testimonies. we have a basic outline we use each time but it has been really cool to share it with each person and see how the spirit has directed the lesson and to see the different things we share each time. It has been a real testimony builder for me that the spirit is directing the lessons even when its not a really strong prompting to say something. 

Thats all I got for you this week. The answer the the joke: "it was his time" 

hope everyone has a great week! 
Sister Webb