Hey!
Thats way cool that
you guys got to go to Liz's wedding! That's way exciting, and thanks for the
pictures. It looks like it was great! Tell everyone hi for me! Its been forever
since I've gotten to hang out with them. Haha I remember all the fun times I had
with the Petersens :) And the Mellens too!
It sounds like a lot
of other exciting stuff has been going on too! I can't believe Derek, Skyler,
and Jordan are all leaving so soon! And thats way cool that Derek and I both
did our "farewells" on Fathers Day (Happy Fathers Day!!! By the way).
I hope Hailey and Jaxon are both having a good time with their camps, and
Jaxon's trip. And thats crazy Dad, your new job! I have no idea what a
procurement team is...but sounds nifty :) And I'm glad you aren't going to be
moving while I'm gone!
As for me, as always,
all good in Argentina. Haha one of the quotes of the week would probably have
to be when our mission nurse told me over the phone: "Oh hun, you've got a
bacterial infection in your...your intestines or whatever". Haha don't
worry I'm fine. I was throwing up in the morning the other day, but I was out
working by the afternoon, and everythings fine. Its amazing how you feel after
drinking 2 bottles of spanish pepto bismol. Haha sorry if that sounds worse
than it was, I'm totally fine, no worries. And the Lord has been helping us
find more people to teach. One of the families that we're super excited about
is the family of Aldana and Mauro. Basically, Aldana talked with missionaries
like a month ago and they gave us her address since she lives in our area. But
all they gave us was the name "Aldana" and an intersection of 2
streets (and one of those streets doesn't exist...). But hey, we found her!!
We've tried a few times before, but it turns out all we had to do was walk down
a road for like 2 hours until it hit a dead end, turn left and walk for lik 10
minutes, and there she lives in the middle of nothing! Easy. Its a family of
11, but we've only met her and her brother so far, and after 2 visits they've
both told us they'd get baptized if they find out what we've said is true, so
now all we have to do is...motivate them enough to read and pray! Haha easy
enough...right?
So as a verse of the
week, I was thinking of something from the New Testament. In Acts 9:10-18. Saul
had been traveling around, persecuting the followers of Christ, but then had a
vision and also went blind. In these verses, the Lord tells his disciple,
Ananias, to go help Saul. In fact, He tells him that Saul had already seen in
vision that Ananias would come to help. At first Ananias was hesitant, but then
he went to help. The Lord even told him which house and street to look in. Saul
was then baptized, is renamed Paul, and goes to preach the gospel and wrote 14
epistles (essentialy the majority of the New Testament). I guess what I'm
trying to say with this is that God really prepares people to hear the gospel,
and sometimes the people that are prepared aren't the ones that we're
expecting. It was also impressive to me that it says that Saul had the vision
that Ananias would come, before Ananias even received the prompting to go to
him. It shows to me the great trust that the Lord had in Ananias, and that He
knew he'd obey. I'd like the Lord to be able to trust me like that. That He
could be so sure that I would do what I was told, that He could prepare others
so specifically for me.
And yeah, so thats
the stuff I've been thinking about lately. I hope you are all doing great and
enjoying the summer there! Dad, good luck with the new job! And I hope
everything goes well with all the big plans everyone has coming up! Can't wait
to hear from you all next week!
Love
Elder Webster
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