It looks like it was great, just like every year. Grandma sent me an email
and it sounded like they had a wonderful Easter as well. Ours here in Jaén
was actually pretty mellow. It felt like a normal day in the mission field
to be honest ha! We went to church, which was all about Christ and there
were some really great talks by the president of the branch and his first
councelor and we sang one of my favorite songs, "I know that my redeemer
lives". There is a line in the spanish hmyn that isn´t in the english. It
says, "He lives, my ever faithful friend", and it caused me to reflect on
how many times He´s been there for me, AFTER having already suffered
everything for me. Even still when I need help, someone to lift me or even
carry me, He is there for me. When I had this thought I was overwhelmed
with gratitude. I´m so grateful that Christ loves me and all of you! As
King Benjamin says, we truly are nothing without Him. I hope you all had
wonderful spiritual experiences as well this easter that helped make it the
best one yet.
So here´s what´s going on in Jaén. Right now we have 4 people with a
baptismal fecha. Remember Ester y Luis that I told you about my first week?
yeah well they finally have a baptismal date for the 18th of Abril! And
Carmen, the wife of Fausto the man I baptized, has a date for the 27th of
Abril. And lasly there is José, a man from Spain and he´s a champ. He has a
date for 13th of April. He´s an awesome individual and already is
recognizing the Spirit. Heck, he recognized it from day one! We found him
by street contacting and at first he didn´t want to give us the time of
day, but then all of the sudden his demenor changed and he gave us his
address and asked us to come by the next day. The first time we taught him
he accepted a baptismal fecha and said he would come to church everytime
that he could. He said that he didn´t know what it was, but he just felt
really good whenever he talked to us. Spirit baby! I love seeing the Spirit
work in people like that. It´s experiences like these that make a mission
so amazing to be apart of. For me anyway. So that was in the begining of
March and he´s been working a lot and hasn´t been able to meet with us
recently, but has come to church, so please remember him and all the others
in your prayers so that they can be baptized!
So this last week was what the catholic world calls Semana Santa (holy
week), and it´s a huge celebration of Christ´s death and resurrection.
There´s parades and processions every night in the streets and people
marching around in costumes and giant floats a lot of crazy stuff. Elder
Flores and I wanted to see a procession really bady, but amazingly enough
the entire week, we didn´t see a single one! I like to think that that
means we were just working hard. I´ll attach a picture from a past Semana
Santa so you can get an idea of what it´s like. For me, it´s pretty
different because there isn´t anything like it in the states, at least not
that I know of.
Elder Flores is a super missionary already. He listens really well and
invites the Spirit really well. I don´t even feel like I´m training him. I
feel more like we´re just normal comps, both learning new things together.
The language barrier is still proving to be a problem for me ha, however I
feel as if my Spanish has improved by miles just in these short two weeks.
So imagine how it´ll be after 12 weeks! I´ll be fluent and ready to move on
to Portugese.
This coming week is conference week and I´m so stoked! I´ll be watching it
in the church on the computer in english while everyone else watches it in
the chapel on the projector. I can´t wait to hear what the prophet and
apostles have to say. It´s kind of funny how much more I apreciate things
like that now, now that I´m trying to help others understand the
significance of it. We have a living prophet, just like in the times of
old, a man that talks to God and tells us His will. Amazing! Why couldn´t I
have understood that before? Maybe then I would have paid more attention
during conference! Ah well, that´s why God has allowed us to repent right?
Well I think I´ve said just about enough. Perhaps too much. The work in
Jaén is progression, and if we can have these four baptisms, then we are
for sure going to recieve two more missionaries, which would be amazing!
There´s definitely plenty of work for four missionaries. So please continue
praying for Elder Flores and I that we might be able to continue having
success and help these people get baptized! I love you all very much! Talk
to you next week!
con amor,
Elder Webb
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