Monday, July 21, 2014

Mosiah 4:6-12

Hola familia!

Shout out to two of the greatest and most influential people in my life!!! My dear mother and step-father Bob and Lisa Pier! Happy anniversay! 13 years of marriage, 13 long years of having to put up with me. They've done an admirable job, and I´d say have even passed the test. Keep up with the good work you two. 

Holy cow what a killer week. Our fechas are progressing a ton, and they both came to church! Saturday night we had 8 people committed to come to church, something I like to call the "saturday night round-up". It´s where we quickly try to pass by and at least talk to all the people we have invited to church to double check that they´re coming, and if we can´t find them, than at least call them and it´s one of my favorite things to do every week. Well we did that and all 8 confirmed. Sunday morning comes and we just don´t feel 100% about their commitments, so we run out the piso early and go knock on every single on of their doors. Not a single one was ready for church, or even awake! So we started church with 0 investigators, but then ended church with 3 in sacrament meeting. Nice little tender mercy from the Lord. If He hadn´t of urged us to go out Sunday morning, I don´t think any of them would have come. Listening to the Spirit pays off!

So Gregorio is doing very well. He´s made some phenominal progress. He wants to be baptized, but is just a little iffy on when. His date is for this saturday and he still feels like that is too soon and it looks like he would rather be baptized later. But no matter, sí o sí he´s going to get baptized, it´s just a matter of when. It truly is amazing the progress he has made. He used to be anti and call us a cult, but now he loves reading the book of Mormon and watching I´m a Mormon videos and mormon messagas on his phone. His stinking phone has been a HUGE tool in helping him progress haha, so I am very grateful to the Lord for inspiring people in this world to make the technology that we have. It really is a huge blessing the accessablilty that everyone in the world has to scriptures and other church material. Our bishop yesterday was telling us about in his mission they were extremely privalaged to have a huge clunky projector. Now the missionaries are going out with iPads. Blessings man, blessings.

As a zone we have set the goal to get 28 fechas before the 24th of July, and right now we have 25!! We´re so close! And there´s not much time left! Everyone has been working really hard to try and get those fechas. Thank you for all your prayers, we really have felt them here. 

Last thing, some thoughts from my studies recently. We are all victims of the pride cycle. It´s what caused the downfall of the Nephites and it´s what causes the downfall within one individualy. So I´ve been trying to study how to beat the pride cycle. My thoughts are this, if you want to beat the pride cycle and remain humble, you must improve the way you REMEMBER. King Benjamin shares some really good thoughts on that in his amazing discourse in Mosiah 4:6-12. He says that if we can always remember our own nothingness and our dependance on God, that we will always be filled with joy, we will always retain a remission of our sins, and we increase in knowledge of who God is, and of all things just and true. That´s a ton of blessings! Also, I think that is part of the reason the Lord wants us to be in the church each and every week renewing our convenants with him, promising to always remember Him week after week. There´s some genius in there that has the potential to keep us out of the pride cycle and carry us long distances. So my invitation this week is that we all improve the way we remember our Savior, not only the frequency of it, but the way in which we do it as well. 

This coming week will be a crazy one, splits in Algeciras, then a meeting with Pres. Deere and Pres. Morales on Wednesday, then splits with the AP´s on Friday and Saturday. It´s gonna be crazy! But fun at the same time. I love you family all so much! I´m glad you got to enjoy the weekend. God bless America. Loves! 

Elder Webb

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