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i would like to start this email by telling you all a story about how Heavenly Father manifested His love to me. yesterday we were leaving our classroom after a very awesome teaching appointment on our way to lunch. i told sister palmer how i wanted a sandwich but that i wouldnt get one because they never have on in the cafeteria. i had resigned myself to the sad truth that i would not be getting a sandwich until i was in the field, but then i would get one! well, we walked into the cafeteria and for the first time in 2 weeks guess what they had?! a sandwich! it was very yummy. and i was a very happy little girl. so as you have figured out i leave the mtc on April 25. at 4 am. early! so if you could all be at home that would be great and i can call you all before 7;30 and then i can also call meg and lando on their phones so i only have to make 3 calls instead of 6. my travel group consists of 7 people. the 4 elders from my district, 2 elders from a district in our zone whom we love and me. so that'll be fun. but all the sisters in my district leave on tuesday morning which means wednesday my companions are the 4 elders. party! except i can just see it... "excuse me elders, i have to go potty...could a couple of you take me? im not allowed to go by myself..." haha! Also next tuesday at the devotional i am saying the closing prayer! that means i get to sit on the stand! and pray infront of 2500 missionaries and very likely a general authority. awesome huh?! im excited! now for the most important thing... happy birthday megan! i hope you had an awesome birthday! ps forgive the horrible caps and stuff in here...the left shift key on this computer doesn't work and quite frankly using the right one all the time is hard. so... deal with it :-P (yes i used the right shift key to make that face haha). on sunday at the fireside elder archuletta sang the spirit of god. it was so powerful and so different from seeing him live in a normal setting. he was shaking sooo bad and choked up at the end and had to fight to get every note out. it was so amazing. you could just feel his testimony and you know without a doubt that he is doing what his Heavenly Father wants him to be doing. also, right after he sang elder ballard stood up and told him that he was doing what He wanted him to be doing. How cool is that?! I love the devotionals and firesides.They are always so awesome and full of such amazing words. These men are truly men of God, me who know God. So this week for zone teaching (where we teach missionaries in our zones as investigators) i am teaching boyd and truman. and truman doesn't know a thing about God so i'm not really sure where to start. So the challenge for this week is to tell me how you would teach someone who doesn't know anything about God who He is. Please send your responses ASAP via dearelder.com and I expect more results this week than the few I got from my challenge last week! Also...just more letters in general please. So about my challenge last week, I was pondering what that verse meant when it said he "thought" he saw God so I was talking to some other people about it and the answer I got was that God doesn't give us the whole picture at once. Revelation is like a puzzle that we get piece by piece. sometimes we get a piece and we don't know where it fits so we just have to set it aside where we think it might fit and eventually it will fit right in and be super exciting! i also decided that that particular vision on lehi's was being told as a play-by-play instead of a recap. so it was pretty awesome. isn't it amazing that we can all study the same thing and learn something new and different from anyone else? the scriptures are so amazing! i just love them more and more every day! now, shout out to the Provo smiths and jessi- thanks for the flowers and balloons and cookies! they were so yummy! unfortunately i did not see Elder archuletta again before he lefts yesterday for a mtc in south america so he did not get his yummy cookies. :-( also elder beverly says thanks for the balloons because he had lots of fun with the helium... oh elders, what shall we do with them? haha. also a shout out the the tubbs family! thanks so much for sending me cookies as well! they are very delicious! and i was SUPER excited when i saw who that cute little package was from. Also mom thanks for sending me that box. it was perfect and i am currently snuggled up in my disney hoodie :-) there is an elder here, elder keech, who is going to sweden and he loves disney too! so we talk about it and its awesome. there is another elder, maness, also going to sweden (they are in our branch and awesome! we love the swedish elders) and he has an amazing voice! im not sure if i already told you this, but he asked me to play the piano for him so he could audition for a special musical number. well...we did! and we got a yes! which means that we in the pool of performers they can pull from for musical numbers. awesome huh? he is going to sing it on sunday as well because i want to make sure he gets a chance to perform it because its so amazing. his voice is so powerful and beautiful and i just love it. im super close with the music coordinator for our branch so i managed to get that in. (im the music coordinator for our branch) natalie: could you make me a cute little sign that says "expect miracles" please? that's one of the first things i learned here and it's so true. Heavenly Father is dying to give us miracles and all we have to do is ask for them. I see so many miracles every day! every night, go over your day and think about what miracles you saw. little or big. and then thank heavenly father for them. we don't show our gratitude nearly enought for all that he does for us, that's something im trying to work on. oh the chocolate chips, one day we were learning about fundamentals and how they are like the chocolate chips in a chocolate chip cookie and our teacher said "what's the difference between a chocolate chip cookie and a regular cookie?" and elder herzog who had been half asleep said "chocolate chips" in a "duh" type voice. so we always tease him about that now "chocolate chip" haha, it's super funny. just believe me. we have a funny quote of the day every day. its awesome. Well that's about all the time i have. but know that I know that the church is true! that jesus died for us that we might live with our father in heaven again. He loves us. He knows us and He will never give us a challenge that is too great for us to handle. We can do it even if we don't know we can if we just rely on Him. Read your scriptures, ponder them. dive into them so you get more than the surface meaning. read PMG. it's inspired. I love you all! Send me lots of letters, i love hearing from you! Love, Sister Webb PS there is nothing quite like watching the testaments at the mtc...especially during the romantic scenes. it's super funny. gotta love missionaries! :-)