Feb. 10, 2014

hola familia!

there is little time today, sorry. We had such a crazy stinking week this week. We worked so so hard and the lord blessed us like crazy. We lost a lot of time out of our area and we really truly got back to work on Friday. We started that day with 2 lessons to investigators, and very far away from the standard of excellence. We worked as hard as we could and in two and a half days we achieved them. The Lord blessed us like crazy, and I think He was trying to teach us something. I had already learned that with Him, anything is possible. But I think this time around He wanted to teach us that we are capable of doing so much more than we are doing right now. I think He wanted to show us our potential that we have, and that we haven´t been achieving. I think we as humans have trust issues and naturally hold back a little. I hadn´t honestly been giving Him all that I had, most of what I had, but not all. And this week I gave Him all, and the blessings and miracles are still surprising me. If we as humans and children of God can really learn to TRUST and have true FAITH, and really give Him all that we have, we will move mountains, and we will become the person that He wants us to be. 

Gustavo and Marisol are FORSURE getting baptized. Well Gustavo not so much, but the rest of the family yes. And Marisol keeps asking us to work hard on Gustavo because he´s not quite there. But he hasn´t been reading the BofM, and if he doesn´t keep his commitments, there´s only so much we can do. The Spirit is so much more affective than any of my words or brownies that I bring, and the BofM is one of the best ways to bring the Spirit. Preach My Gospel says that "the Book of Mormon combined with the Spirit is [my] best tool for conversion." And it´s true! I was converted because of the BofM and my conversion continues to deepen the more I read it. So if anyone is feeling a little down, or lacking in the testimony department, I invite you to read the BofM. Ipromise that the fire of your testimony that you have been lacking will come back! 

Speaking of invitations, I met the most Catholic man in my life yesterday. He told me and my companion that we were confused and that the Catholic church was correct. At the end of the discussion he literally extended us a commitment, as if he were the missionary and not us! He said "I invite you to look at this video, and to repent of your erronous ways, and to discover the good that comes from the Virgin and the Saints." It was quite interesting. 

The best part of the week happened at church. We had 6 investigators at church! And it was fast and testimony meeting and the Spirit was so strong. Marisol afterwards told me that she was going to get up and bear testimony! But the time ran out. So stinking cool! But that wasn´t even the best part. The best part was David. The two year old son of Maru, another investigator. He was with the bishops wife and two year old son playing, and drawing on papers when suddenly, and literally out of nowhere, he begins to vomit ALL OVER THE CHAPEL AND THE BISHOPS WIFE!! I couldn´t believe my eyes! Me and a couple more brethren jumped up to grab the mop and the poor boy just continued throwing up, leaving a trail behind him. No one said a thing, everything continued as normal, as if nothing had happened. Afterwards, David came back and he too appeared to not even realize what had happened. It made for a pretty entertaining sacrament meeting. 

This week will be interesting as well. It´s the last week of transfers (I¨m 99% positive that I am staying in Molina) and we need to have 2 exchanges. Zone meeting is tomorrow as well, where we train the zone on what President taught us in concilio. The zone did really well last month and so we´ve decided to do something nice for them and cook them breakfast tomorrow. Don´t tell them anything though, it´s a surprise! 

Last thing I want to share is something I learned in personal study. I´ve been studying obedience a lot, trying to change my attitude so that it´s a QUEST and not a nausance. I feel that we as children of God in general, we fear man more than God, and that causes us to be rebelous and disobedient. I read in the book of Ecclesiastes 12:13 a scripture I like: "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: ^aFear God, and ^bkeep his commandments: for this is the whole ^cduty of man." It is our duty, and we owe it to Him for everything He has given us. Let us all commit to be more obedient, to fear God and not man. He has promised more power, more blessings, and more happiness if we do so. But in order to do so, we first must rid ourselves of any pride, and TRUST Him. Obedience is cool. I feel like a cheerleader for the D.A.R.E campaign, but instead of kids and drugs, it´s missionaries and obedience. But you know what? I´ll shout this song all day, every day if I have too because it´s cool to be Mormon, it´s cool to obey and get blessings, and all these things make me happy. 

Sorry for the long winded letter. I love you all so much! I hope you have a good week, and that you are obedient! Love love love!

Elder Webb