Hey!
Sorry for kind of worrying you guys about me being sick. I'm
totally fine now, the whole thing passed after a day or two. I hope you didn't
worry too much. And thanks mom for that quote, Ireally like it. And thanks Dad
for that scripture. I can't even imagine what it would have been like to be
there. Its kind of weird, but something about being on the mission makes me
think about the second coming more often, and I ask that same question about
that. And good luck on your talk!!
This was kind of a crazy week. We decided to really start
trying to focus more on the less-actives in the ward, which wasn't too hard to
decide since our ward list has like 500 people and only about 40 people come to
church. So we've been spending most of the week working with them, and a couple
of them came to church this week, which was way cool. Haha and I set a
baptismal date with one, so hopefully that will turn out. Haha we just knocked
on the door and the mother and little daughter answered. We talked for a bit
and the mom said they couldn't really talk to us right then, so then I turned
to the little girl and just straight up asked her if she wanted to get baptized
and she said yes, so then I told her when we wanted to help her get baptized,
and then looked at the mom and told her we'd be back to help them prepare. Haha
so that was cool, we'll see how that goes. This sunday was also the primary
program, which was fun. Its funny how it seems like no matter where you are in
the world, people are basically exactly the same. I had noticed it before but
it was super evident with the primary program. The parents trying to help out,
the primary president stressing out...haha good stuff.
And yeah, I guess I didn't really say anything about my new
comp Elder Fullmer. He's from Washington and has about 10 months in the
mission, 6 of which were in Argentina, and before that he was waiting for his
visa in Ogden, Utah. This is also his first transfer as district leader, so he
keeps asking me what to do and what other district leaders did, since I've been
the comp of the district leader basically my entire mission...but I don't think
I've been much help. Its a bit of a weird change from last transfer just
because Elder Jones loved to constantly be talking and Fullmer is more...like
me. So we have some long, quiet walks sometimes. Haha but its good, figuring
things out as we go along. I think I told you guys before, but we also live
with the zone leaders, and one of them is new this transfer too. He's from
Colombia and he's pretty cool. He really wants to learn english so we've been
helping with that. Haha he drew me a picture this morning and it looks way
cool. I asked him where he learned to draw, and he said he couldn't draw at all
before his mission but he started to do it whenever he was super stressed and
now... he's amazing. Haha so I guess thats one good thing that comes from the
stress here.
So, as a verse of the week, I was thinking of DyC 103:36. It
talks about how all victory and glory is gained through diligence,
faithfulness, and prayers of faith. Way sick. And that section is talking about
Zion's Camp, which I was reading a bit about the other day in the book
"Our Heritage," and it talks about how crazy difficult Zion's Camp
was but that from it came 4 future prophets and basically all the general
authorities of the church for a long time. Kind of got me thinking about the
diffirent types of victory and glory we can be looking for. I'm sure that at
the time they thought it was a failure, but if we're really here to learn and
progress, then it could possibly be considered one of the greatest successes of
their lives. Interesting stuff.
Anyway, I hope you guys are doing well and are getting
stoked for Christmas! The kids here just got out for summer vacation, which was
a little weird. But hopefully you guys are enjoying your Arizona winter and
everything! Have a great week!!!!!!
Love,
Elder Webster
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