How is life in the States? Life in the mission is going fantastically as usual. This week was a tough one. We went to Málaga for concilio with President and Hermana Deere and then had Zone Meeting on Friday, where we teach the zoe what President taught us. We also touched on the subject of consectration and becoming a missionary, making the switch and giving all to the Lord, realyl putting your eye single to His glory, forgetting yourself and going to work. That is something that we here in the mission need to grasp better, become more dedicated and do it for the right reasons. We shared a talk given by Elder Tad R. Callister about what a consecrated missionary is and how to become it. The whole thing went okay, some missionaries have simply decided that they don´t want to change nor improve and are going to stay where they are. But that´s okay, we´re not giving up on them!
So my area is different from previous areas I´ve had. Ours is the very wealthy and it´s a bit more difficult to find new investigators. Our goal right now is the establish a better relationship with the members to help further the work down the line. Previous missionaries here didn´t quite have their hearts in the work, so we´re doing a little bit of spring cleaning. It´s going to be a tough few first weeks, but by the end of the transfer we´ll have made a difference. Elder Teixeira, the area President of the Europe area, says that one companionship can make a significant difference in their area in 6 weeks, so that is our goal. My companion Elder Curtis is a stud. He´s from Salt Lake and went to East high. He played football at Dixie for a little and wants to go to the U, but I¨ve been slowly convincing him that BYU is a better choice. He is trying really hard to be a consecrated missionary, so it´s nice to have someone with the same desires as me. The Lord has really blessed me my whole mission with my companions. We´re going to do work here in our area and in the zone.
We are working with a few people however. One family, the parents are Toti and Isabell. They´re from Bolivia and they´re a lot of fun. They like listening to the missionaries a lot and we´re right now trying to help them recognize the Spirit. Toti´s brother is a member, and a strong one at that, it´s just that when it comes to sharing the gospel, he gets a little timid. But that´s okay, we´ve all been there. We´re working with Toti to help him feel the desire to be baptized to then take his family to the temple. The other people are two youth aged kids, Haider and Jizzel, also from Boliva and cousins of Toti. Their parents don´t really want anything, so right now we´re just working with them to try and get permission for them to be baptized. Other than them we´re working with the members to find news. It´s a slow process, but by the end we´ll have lots of work.
On Wednesday President Deere will be coming to San Fernando for a specilized training for our zone. He´s going to talk about how we can better work with the members in the work and have more unity. That is the focus of the Stake President here, so that´s what we´re going to do.
Semana Santa (Holy Week) starts this week, celebrating Christs final week of his mortal ministry. That´s when everyone goes out to the street and carries the ginormous parade-float like things on their backs all throughout the city, and they play music (which I actually enjoy a lot.. really catholic and european style writing, it´s great) and march all around. I´ll be sure to take lots of pictures and send them to you. Sorry I haven´t been sending many pictures, it´s becuase I haven´t been taking any! But I´ll send lots next week.
So that´s life right now. We have a bigger focus on the zone than our own area, we really need to step it up and get our minds into the work, so we´re doing our best to inspire the missionaries. And we´re trying to improve relationships with members and work better with them. Life is greatas always. I hope you all have a wonderful week and seek to feel the Spirit! And remember, if it´s difficult to recognize, purity is the key. Sanctify ourselves! DyC 43:15-16. There´s nothing better than being a servant for the Lord. The greatest feeling is feeling the Spirit as He guides you in your labors as you litterally become an instrument in the Lord´s hands. I love the Lord and am grateful for his love and mercy and willingness to forgive. Love you all so much! Have a good Holy Week and try your best to remember Him and all that He´s done for us! Luvs.
Elder Webb
me and my compy writing the families after playing ultimate frisbee with the zone
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