Matt 19:16-20; 11:28-30

Suuuuch a good week. I know I say that about every week, but seriously this time I think it was one of the best weeks of my mission. Elder Kearon from the 70 visited us and it was incredible, amazing, SPECTACULAR! And on top of that Sergio and Gimena have made some serious progress, and we set a fecha bautismal with a woman named Belen for the 7th of December, and it´s a solid fecha. Amazing week!

Elder Kearon encouraged us all to change and grow and become better and I loved hearing his words. There were so many things that he said that I absolutley loved, but I´ll share just a few. So he talked about stretching and doing hard things, about going for the impossible. He said that Latter Day Saints have always faced adversity, resistance and challenge, but that´s okay because we thrive on it. I loved that a lot. He also talked a lot about choice, and making the decision to change, to become better. It´s our choice and Heavenly Father isn´t going to force us into anything. He loves us so much, He loves us exactly how we are right now, but He loves us enough to invite us to change. So we must decide to become better than what we are now. His wife mentioned the story from the bible of the rich youth, who in the search for eternal life asked the savior "what lack I yet?" That´s a great attitude that we must all have in order to really reach our full potential. And sometimes in our quest for improvement and refinement, we must do hard things, but no worries because we thrive in adversity. Sometimes, we must do what Moroni does, and want he does he does better than anyone. Stand alone. But it´s all worth it. I left that meeting totally and completely edified and inspired. 

We had had several meetings with Gimena and the Lord and the Spirit have been working hard with her. She´s progressed so much! She read a Plan of Salv. pamphlet and had a lot of questions and when we answered them all, you could see the wheels turning. She read the Book of Mormon saturday night and had a really big spiritual experience, and Sunday she was planning on surprising us at church (because before she said she wouldn´t be able to come), but in the end didn´t end up making it. But just the simple fact that she had started making plans to go to church on her own, that´s huge!! And last night we had another really great lesson, the Spirit was sooo strong as we read from the scriptures. She knows it´s true, that the Book of Mormon is the word of God, she´s just afraid now of the commitment. She´s afraid that she won´t be able to do it, and because of that she would be worse off than before. So she gave herself her own commitment. During the next few days she´s going to not drink cofee nor tea in order to see if she really can do it. I know the Lord will show forth His power and help her. He´s done it with me when in the past I had to get up very early in the morning to go to work. We´ve been praying mightily for that blessing, so that her fear of committing herself will leave. Please PRAY with us, I know He will hear and answer our prayers.

So that´s that. Belen will be baptized next Sunday. And Gimena will be baptized next Saturday the 6th after she sees the Lord´s power and realizes that she can do this, and that His yoke really IS easy and His burden light. Thank you for your prayers on behalf of our friends (we no longer call them "investigators"). I know the Lord has great power and can bring forth this mighty miracle. There are few miracles as great as seeing a person change their entire life for Christ´s sake and accept the restored Gospel. It really is something miraculous. I love you all so much and I hope you have a great week and enjoy Thanksgiving! Loves!

Elder Webb 

                 little piece of home in my area

Matt 17:20; 14:31

Hola familia!

Really great week this time. The Lord has lots of power, did you know that? And if we simple have faith and show Him that faith by our actions, then His power always comes down and works mighty miracles. We had quite a few investagators at church, and they all had really good experiences. A couple were saying that they felt the words said were intended specifically for them. Liset was finally able to get confirmed! She and her son have been in and out of the hospital for weeks and she hasn´t been able to come to church, but finally yesterday she made it. Because of the recent flood of baptisms we´ve had, we´ve been working a lot with recent converts. The work has changed a lot since I started. It´s now our responsability as missionaries to take care of our converts after baptism, reteaching them the lessons and having contact with them daily for the first 3-4 months. That change took place in the summer, and now I´m getting a really good understanding of why. The RC are progessing so well! Thank you for all your prayers.

We had intercambios with the Zone Leaders and it was really helpful for my companion, it "opened his eyes" he keeps saying. So now starts the transistion process where he starts taking over, and by the last week he´s the señor companion. It´s gonna be fun! 

A highlight of the week was yesterday and the fact that two of my favorite people on the planet came to church. Sergio and Gimena. I don´t think I have loved investigators more on my mission, than how much I love them. They were the ones that kept saying that the messages and words were intended specifically for them. They loved church! And kept saying that it surpassed all their expectations. At the rate they´re going they will be baptized soon, I jsut really hope they make the decision before I leave!! But they have a really specially spot in my heart and I´m really greatful that I have been allowed to get to know them and too see the change take place in their heart.

On Thursday Elder Kearon of the Seventy is coming to visit us. It´s going to be really good. I´m excited to see what he decides to tell us as a mission, and for the things we can do to improve. I hope he´s blunt and calls us all to repentance. There´s always room for improvement, and I don´t know why but I like it when I get "called to repentance", meaning someone is straightforward with me and tells me what I´m lacking in and where I can improve. You have to be kind of hard to do it, in spanish it´s called giving "caña". So I hope he gives us lots of caña haha.

I love you family and I want you to know that I LOVE being a missionary. Have a really great week and remember to have faith because He can do ANYTHING with our faith. When things get rough, or scary, or lonely, don´t doubt! Keep moving forward, and keep having faith. Loves!

Elder Webb

                                        Sergio and Gimena! I love them!

                                     President and Hermana Deere

DyC 64:33; 84:19-20

Hola Familia!

First let me give a shout out to my amazing sister Gentry and her husband Devon, for she is with child and shall bear this child in the month of may. Let us all pray that he be born on the 6th of May, a fine day if I do say so myself.

Also, Jason Deere, the brother of President Deere (my mission president) is the man behind all the Nashville Tribute Band CDs and he´s just released a new one called Redeemer. I have listened to it and it´s really really good. Ya´ll need to go check it out!

Okay so this week was a pretty stellar one. We found some cool new investigators, an american lady that is married to an argentinian man that live in spain. Kind of an interesting mix. Also some investigators of ours are really progressing well. Jose-lin came to stake conference and LOVED it, we´re going to place a fecha with him tomorrow, and also we placed a fecha with a lady named Belen. And a woman named Gimena has made some really great progession too. 

Gimena has a special place in my heart. She got sick during the week, so we offered to run some errands for them. When we stopped by to pick up the goods to deliver, we also asked her if she would like a blessing. She had never had one before and it was an amazing experience. The ordinances of the Gospel bring the Spirit so strongly it´s amazing. Especially for those who in the past have felt it before, but maybe have gone a little while without feeling it, it always hits them hard during a blessing. That was the case with Gimena I think. The Spirit was definitely strong during that moment, I could feel it, but she was in tears because of the blessing. Afterwards we talked and we asked her what she´d be willing to do to have the feelings of the Spirit more often in her life. I knew that her thoughts immediately went to baptism. We commited her to pray and ask Heavenly Father if she should be baptized. The next day we walked into her house and the first thing she said was "Webb I´m going to church with you this week!" That about knocked me off the floor becaues she´s never been to church since the missionaires started coming over back in March. She´s made some serious progress, so please pray for her that she will fufill her commitment to come to church. In the ordinances of the Gospel, the power of godliness really is manifest. 

In stake conference they talked a lot about the "small and simple things" that bring to pass the great ones. Inmissionary work and in daily life. I enjoyed those talks a lot. So take the Lord´s advice and "be not weary in well-doing!" keep with the small and simple things, daily personal prayer and scripture study, weekly family home evening, and you will be laying the foundations of a better life, of more spiritual power, and of the blessings of heaven to fall into your life, brick by brick. Keep going, keep smiling, and keep doing what is right. Changes to become better don´t happen over night with huge extravagent ocurrences, but rather little by little, through small and simple things. I know this is true because I´ve seen it in my own life over the course of my mission. ¡Animo! ladies and gentleman!

I love you all and hope you have a great week. Please pray for Jose-Lin, Belen, and Gimena and Sergio. We need your prayers! Keep up with the small and simple things that invite the Spirit into your lives. Enjoy the week! Loves.

Elder Webb

                                        look who I saw at stake conference! 

                              and like father like son... (inside joke with my dad)

Moshia 1:6-7

hola familia!

Good solid week this week. Cristina came and was confirmed in church this
sunday. She said she had a very neat spiritual experience during the
confirmation. Liset wasn´t able to come becasue her son has been in the
hospital and she´s been taking care of him. But we´re going to find another
time to confirm her because this coming sunday is stake conference. But
she´s doing good still.

We be working a lot now with recent converts, but still in the middle of
all that, the Lord is good enough to bless us with more investigators that
progress. So sadly every last one of the investigators that we found during
finding week have decided to stop investigating. But as a direct
consequence from them, we have found other investigators that are lots of
potential. We have basically two main focuses right now: help our recent
converts progress and stay on track for the temple, and help these other
few investigators that we have been given progress.

One of the investigators that is in that catagory is Jose-Lin. He´s the
husband of a member and he´s super awesome! A really great person and I
don´t understand why he wasn´t baptized with his family three years ago. We
had a great lesson with him saturday and he commited to come to church and
to pray and ask God if he should be baptized. His wife was so greatful that
he came to church with her, in fact there were a lot of people that were
happy to see him there. I can feel the Lord working on him and preparing
his heart, and I have faith that he will make the decision to be baptized.
Please pray for Jose-Lin.

Interesting experience, yesterday we were out tracking and we saw a recent
convert and stopped and were talking with him. Out of nowhere a woman
approaches him and says "cousin! I´m so happy to see you!" and gives him
two besitos (kisses) on the cheek. She looks at us and says the exact same
thing and goes for the kiss, but she was rejected (she didn´t really like
that..) I ask the recent covert who she was and he told me that he had no
idea who it was and had never met her in his life! Something appeared to be
a little "different" about her because she was behaving very strangely. We
told her that we are missionaries for the church of Jesus Christ and she
said "oh so Mary doesn´t exist for you guys?" and then proceeded to
instruct us on how to do the Catholic cross, touching our forehead, chest
and stomach to show us how. After that she just walked away without saying
another word! It was odd. Why do all the crazy people flock to me?

So this week the plan is to get Jose-Lin and Anthony and Kimberly to
church. They have the most potential and could all be baptized this month.
Please keep them in your prayers! Also don´t forget to open the Book of
Mormon every day and read from it, even if it´s just one or two verses. The
difference in spiritual strength between an individual that reads daily
versus one who does not is staggering, and we see it every day in the
mission. I promise you, that life is just simply better, everything goes
better, and you just simply do well when you are reading daily from the
Book of Mormon. It´s powerful! So read it, "that ye may profit thereby". I
love you all so much! I hope you have a good week, and I hope to see some
progression out of these investigators. Loves!

Elder Webb

This is Elder Reid with his companion elder Gonzalez. Elder Reid is one
fine missionary and he´s from Missoula! So I just wanted to give him a
little shout out cuz I love him. He got transfered after just one transfer
here in Málaga and is now opening a new area in La Extremadura! Go Montana