8-27-2012 Letters

Annie’s Letter

Wow. Neil Armstrong is gone. I can't believe it. I was in the BMV this morning (for a notary for my absentee ballot) and on the TV (I wasn't watching, but I do have working ears!) It said that the guy that voiced count on sesame street was dead which made me really sad. Then it said something about Neil Armstrong and I thought it said died but wasn't sure...so I looked...and it was just talking about a display they are doing so I was like okay, he's not dead. It's okay." Well then I turned around and saw this white board they had in the office and it had his timeless quote (see the subject line) followed by 1930-2012 and I couldn't believe it! I wanted to cry. I told sister richardson "he can't die. Neil armstrong is just one of those people who aren't supposed to die!" Then I came here and read Rachel's e-mail and that is exactly what dad said and I thought that was kinda funny. That we said the same thing. Not that Neil Armstrong died. That's not funny at all. Well I don't have too much time today so let me quickly tell you what's been going on here.

Tuesday we had Zone conference. Zone conference is a wonderful opportunity to really be uplifted by the spirit, by the speakers and by just being with the other missionaries. People who understand exactly what we are going through! It's so nice to feel of their spirits and testimonies for a little while to really help me get pumped up and go hit the work hard! After zone conference I got to go to...

SPRINGFIELD!!!!!!!!! That's right, I got to go "home!" It was awesome! I even got to see Marcia, Josh, and Braelynn three of my investigators who are now recent converts. I also go to see a lot of the ladies of the ward because our dinner Tuesday night was a relief society activity! And I got to teach some of their new investigators Tim and Randi who are just awesome! They taught the law of chastity a couple lessons ago and Tim said "you know what that means Randi, you have to move out!" He was just kidding but they did announce their engagement when we were there! It was so cute when we got to Braelynn's. She had just woken up so she gave sister finefeuiaki a hug and then went to give sister dycus a hug but then saw it was me and her eyes just went huge and she basically launched herself at me! It was awesome! I've missed her! But things have been going really well here in Marysville. We are working hard to continue the work in this area. This week we had planned to teach Olivia the law of chastity. At our last lesson she informed us that her boyfriend, Mark, would be moving in with her. Needless to say I have been terrified to teach this lesson this week. All week I studied the Law of chastity from Preach my Gospel as well as from the scriptures. There is so much good stuff! Well, the day of the lesson dawned and Sister Richardson jokingly quipped "what do you bet Mark sits in on the lesson today?" I had been thinking the same thing but secretly hoping that he would not be. Ha! So that night we knock on the door and it's opened by someone I don't know. Olivia introduces us to her friends Jacob and Cassy, and of course we know Mark. Olivia was really excited that they were all there so that they could learn what had become so important to her! I'm thinking "holy cow. Now we are supposed to teach Olivia and Mark and Cassy and Jacob (two couples who both live together) the law of chastity. Awesome. I'm not gonna lie, I tried to think of what other commandments we needed to teach Olivia (all of them except the Word of Wisdom) but out of all those commandments... I couldn't think of a single one. The only thought in my head was "we need to teach this lesson tonight." Okay. So then Sister Rutter (a member who comes with us a lot-she is great!) comes into the apartment. She knew what we were teaching and you could just see on her face "uh-oh" it was quite funny. But we launched right into the lesson and it actually went really well. At the end of the lesson Mark piped up and told us he liked what he had heard and wanted to learn more. And Jacob had actually been engaged in the lesson and decided he wanted to learn more too! While I was talking to Mark and Olivia about Mark's past and what has lead him to want to learn more about religion Sister Rutter was having a great conversation with Jacob about the Book of Mormon. It was awesome! Who knew that out of the lesson I have been most terrified to teach and that I thought would be awkward with all the people there we would get two new investigators! It was awesome! We have also been trying to get Olivia to come to church for about 4 weeks but we always get text messages on Saturday night telling us why she can't come (migraine, stomach virus, helping her grandmother who just had surgery...) Well, we planned to bring her breakfast so she could come. Mark had to work so he wouldn't be able to come. Well, Sunday morning we make a delicious breakfast and go to Olivia's. She opens the door, all dressed for church! YAY!! She then tells us Mark is hiding in the bedroom. He ended up not having to work! So he came too! He felt out of place because he wasn't dressed up and he has a tattoo on his arm. However by the end of the block he felt a lot better thanks to the fantastic members that we have! They both loved it! And while we were walking home with them Jacob called Olivia and was asking questions about the church! We are planning to teach them all the restoration on Wednesday but Jacob got a job-which is great! but he works nights so we will have to find a different time to get with him and continue the lessons. But we asked Mark if he was coming next week and he said "Well, ya!" And of course Olivia wants to too! I think with Mark on board a lot of Olivia's concerns and anxieties have been diminished I think she will be able to progress better now too! Man! We also had an incredible miracle with another of our investigators, Shelley. I won't go into details because they're not important but it was a huge miracle in her life. She knows this is a miracle from her Heavenly Father and she is just so incredibly thankful to Him for all that He has done in her life especially as she has been turning it around. She is just great! It's been a good week!

Well, good luck with school and work everyone. And Landon, keep up the awesome work in Canada! I love that we are on the computer at the same time! It was great to say hello to you and hear back in less than a week! haha. PS I'm waiting for that letter you promised. I'll write you back as soon as I get it :-P That goes for everyone else as well! I'm so glad to hear everything is going well at home. I love and miss you all a lot! I love you more than I miss you though. :-) haha. Well, have a great week! Write lots of e-mails and letters! Oh and mom...I did spend money last week. I found a maurices here. I got a really cute outfit :-) It's nice to have something that's not getting worn out and new and cute haha. Transfers are this week so send letters to the Powell address please

PO Box 939 Powell OH 43065. I'll let you know next Monday what happened there. And we can arrange shipping of winter clothes after transfers too. It's still really nice here, usually in the 70-80s but a couple days in the low 90s. But I want to make sure I have my winter stuff before it's so cold and I absolutely NEED it! Love you all! Tata!

Annie

Sister Webb

Landon’s Letter

Hey family,

So I will get right to the point. This week we went over to a less actives house and we had corn meal, cooked cabbage and beef feet. Ha Ha ya beef feet. Also we bought a rat trap this week. Not for a rat but for a lesson which is pretty fun to teach. It really scares people alot when we ask them to set off the trap with their hand after they see it break a pencil in 2. Don't worry we detach the spring. But it teaches faith pretty darn well don't you think?

Anyway,

Rachel stop talking about what you are thinking about going into at college. Ok don't stop but that is really scary to think about. What is radiology? Good luck with school this year and I am expecting A's all across the board. I hope that you really learn alot from seminary. It is such an important class to take and it will really help you aton. Listen and take notes on what the Spirit prompts you to take and then that night think about what you have learned.

Natalie how is college? Pretty exciting huh being on your own huh? I hope that you have been to the Institute more then 3 times so far and I hope that you have seen that it is really cool there. Ya I know Devin ...... good luck. Ok he's not bad. Have you seen Brother Andrus yet? Tell him hi for me. In fact tell Jarom, Cameron, and Jared (if he is there), hi for me if you see them. Have you made any new friends? You better have. But I know that you will have fun there. It is such a blast I hope you don't go home for at least 3 weeks. Trust me it is better to stay for those first 3 weeks so you can make alot of friends right off the bat. You will do great!

Annie that story is sooooooo awesome keep up the hard work. That is definately the Spirit working through someone in the form of a miracle. Thanks for your exmaple to me and for all that you do. Keep up the awesome and hard work.

Megan & Justin, I can't wait to get your letter that you said you would write. I am so grateful for all that you do. Thank you so much for always supporting me. I am really jealous that you guys have gone camping sooo much.

Mom, good luck at school. I know that you will be great just like you are every year. Keep up the awesome work. Thank you so much for all the support you have given me. I love to call you my mom! :-)

Dad, thanks for the updates. You're right that doesn't suprise me. Gabe always dropped the ball so what's new. Thank you for all the support you have given me. I read a talk by Dieter F. Uchtdorf. I can't remember the name of it but it is about flying and he relates it to the gospel. It like EAgle and wings for something like that. Anyway it is really good. you should read it.

We'll that's it for this week. The work is going good. We have gotten 2 new investigators for the past 2 weeks so we can't complain really. The Lord has blessed us alot. I am so grateful for the power of prayer. It is one of the biggest tools we have. I have seen it work miricales in my life and in the lives of our investigators. I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father that hears and answers prayers.

I love you all and thanks for everything

Love your favorite son, brother, and elder

Landon Webb :-)

8-20-2012

Annie’s Letter

ello family and friends! I'm sure you have all been just on edge all week waiting for the outcome of this story of Kyle... well let me tell you all about it! We talked to President Nilsen and he told us to teach Kyle and call him later that week and report on his progress to see if he could be baptized here or when he gets to school. So we did. We taught a lesson on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. It was really neat on Tuesday because he came into the lesson and said "It's gotta be short today, my dad is in the hospital and I need to go to Columbus." WOW! He didn't call and cancel or anything! He is definitely making his lessons a priority! Due to his dad and his work schedule we didn't see Kyle on Wednesday but we did call President Wednesday and left a message. We didn't see Kyle on Thursday and didn't hear from President. Oh, let me tell you a little about how Kyle progressed. He is just amazing. He was connecting the things he was learning to the scriptures he was reading and to the pictures that he saw in the church. He was really doing awesome with reading and his insights were incredible. He could have been teaching the lessons instead of the other way around! So we were very excited for him. We were talking about how he was a golden investigator and decided that wasn't quite right. We determined that Kyle is our *platinum investigator* So we finally got a hold of President on Friday morning and he told us that Kyle wouldn't be getting baptized on Wednesday (which is the day we were shooting for). Now, I'm sure you're all asking why couldn't he be baptized on Wednesday. He was progressing so phenomenally and was just doing great! Well, fear not. The reason he couldn't be baptized on Wednesday is because by Wednesday he would already be a member. That's right! He would be baptized before Wednesday! Like on Sunday! So we met with Kyle on Friday and had a lesson and asked if he wanted to be baptized on Sunday, which of course he did! Saturday we had another lesson and an interview. Friday and Saturday Sister Richardson and I were busily making plans for the baptism. Talks, people to perform the ordinances, prayers, witnesses, programs... all sorts of stuff and it all went great. I love planning things :-) It was actually really funny. On Sunday after church we started filling up the font. One of the brethren from the ward closed the drain (because he didn't think we knew how...) and we started the water and everything was great. We ran home to grab some lunch and were back at the church about 40 minutes later. We walked into the primary room (where the font is) checked the water level and to our horror... IT WAS DRAINING!! So I bravely went into the water (there was about 6 inches) and made sure the plug was all the way in. I then sat by the font for the next few hours while it filled up. I didn't just sit there...I was also folding programs and doing other last minute things :-) Then we were in the chapel ready for the baptism to start. Kyle was there, people were there, I was playing beautiful prelude music and thinking I really should go check the font (which had filled up and turned off) to make sure it hadn't drained anymore. But I didn't because I was busy playing beautiful prelude music :-) Well... we got into the primary room for the baptism and I couldn't see any water in the font. But I was like...it's just because of the mirror and glass all the reflections and the water is still. It's okay. And it was. It had drained about 4 inches so it was a little low. Thankfully Kyle isn't any taller than me so he was still able to be completely immersed in the water. I was so worried all day that something was going to go wrong. But that was all that happened. And that is definitely something that was no big deal. If Kyle would have been like 7 feet tall there may have been an issue. But it all worked out beautifully. Sister Richardson and Sister Rutter (from the ward) sang a beautiful song "Beautiful Savior" accompanied by yours truly and Kyle was confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It was fantastic. The spirit was so strong and the member support was great. We also have been in contact with the Bishop and missionaries in the Wintersville ward who are waiting for Kyle to drive into Stubenville on Thursday so they can welcome him and help him to continue to progress and develop his testimony. It has been such a privilege to teach Kyle. He has been so prepared by the Lord. :-) After the baptism yesterday we hit the streets. FINDING! We need some new investigators! Unfortunately we didn't find any. But we did get to talk to some way awesome people. Including this lady who is 95. She invited us in and asked us several questions. She's not interested in the church but just had questions and I think she really liked the things that we had to say. She is Roman Catholic but has some things that just don't make sense and I think she really like the things we were able to tell her. It was just awesome to talk to her. She told us some about when she was growing up and it reminded me so much of grandma and when she was growing up (they are about the same age...) so I was thinking a lot about Grandma Webb last night. I sure do miss her. But I know she is watching out for me, she loves me, and she is proud of me. And the same for you Landon and everyone else. :-) The other pictures are just ones that I like. yes I have a green tractor that I play with. :-) Oh! The other exciting thing I wanted to tell you all is....TOMORROW I GET TO GO BACK TO SPRINGFIELD!!! yay for exchanges! I am so excited to see Sister Finefeuiaki and people there. The work in Springfield has been awesome ! 3 of the people that I was teaching there have been baptized. They are doing great work! Not gonna lie, I miss it. But I do love Marysville. It is a great place to work. Well, I'm sure I could write a million more stories and things but I'm really about out of time so sorry! I love you all! Sounds like everything is going great at home! Have a wonderful week and I can't wait to hear from you all again!

Love your favorite Sister...missionary

Annie

 

Landon’s Letter

Hey my awesome family!

First off thank you so much for all the wonderful letters and all the wonderful emails that you have sent to me. I really appreciate them so much because it is great to hear how all of you are doing! So thank you from the bottom of my heart. It is so great when we open up the mailbox and there is a letter addressed to you! Sorry I haven't written any letters for a long time. I only have time on P-Day and even then it is hard because we are so busy running around everywhere. But I will write letters today!

I'm glad you had fun in Snow Bird I am really sad I missed out on everything down there. Mom you would go slow. haha. But I am also glad you don't have a broke leg. I miss the mountains all we have are hills. So here in North Bay they have what is called the ski hill. So take the dug way, ad maybe 10-15 more feet in height, not nearly as steep, and you have a ski hill. PATHETIC! Anyways I am glad to hear the things are going great.

Megan how in the world did mice get into your camper? Because I don't know how they could have. I am glad to hear that you and Justin are doing good. I hope that what ever Justin needs for his throat goes good. Did your dogs have surgery on their hips? How big are they? I am so glad you to are enjoying life!

Annie how is your work going? That story is awesome I am sad that I will have to hear it next week:( But that is an amazing story!

Thank you for your great example that you are to me! Don't worry I will write you a letter today as well. I am piled up with them so I will don't worry. ;)

Natalie less then a week! Are you ready? What's this news about a hair cut? I haven't heard anything or seen any pictures. When do I get picture? Don't forget about your only and favorite brother in Canada. How do you spell Canada? C eh N eh D eh. hahahaha.

Rachel good luck with school. You are the last one in Lyman High from the Webb family. Cool! Good luck with everything and all that you will do this year. Junior Prom. Good Luck.

Well sorry I don't write long emails but I am a slow writer and processor. I have 5 minutes left on the computer. I would have had all day but Elders in the past ruined it. They use to use the family history library computers because Bishop allowed them to but they started downloading Itunes. Dumb right. Anyways I really appreciate the support you give to me. The work here is going good. We are scheduled to have 5 baptisms in September. James Lindsey, Megan Fretz, Dave Gudraue, Rob Ransom, and Jordan who will be moving here in a little while. Plus we are meeting with other people as well. We are pretty excited.

Well I love you all and have a great day.

Love your favorite Elder, Brother, Son

Landon Webb

(No pics from Landon yet… sorry!)

8-13-12

Landon’s Letter

Hola mi familia

Ya I won't even try the next part because I can't spell it. So how are ya doing? I hope that all of the bees are finally gone. Way to go Mom that is so awesome you found the nest! You will have to send pictures of the nest because I really want to see it! How big was it? Are their still some bees there? Anymore nests? I was talking to a member a month ago and they said that they usually don't have a bee problem because they put up a fake bees nests around the outside of their house. Now if that works I don't know but she said it is because bees are territorial. That's just something that I found out while I have been out here so don't quote me if it works or not. (She had a bee's nest)

Another thing that I found interesting from you Mom is that you said your rasberry plants are getting big (rasberry or strawberry I can't remember) but also that you need to replant them. I was a another members house last night and she had rasberry plants that were huge. They were almost as tall as me in height. They were 2 years old..... CRAZY!!!!!! Stinking humidity.

So you are all probably wondering why you haven't seen any photos from me. We'll I don't have my camera cord so I can only sent the pictures home when the card is almost or completely full. Sorry :( but don't bother finding the cord because these computers are sooooo slow and I only have an hours worth of time. But it is almost full. I have a few videos and lots of pictures. There is only 260 pictures left or 6 minutes of video. The video is so you can see what life is like a bit better here so hopefully you like them.

Rachel & Natalie, go have an adventure before school starts. You should also take Megan because soon there will be just 2 Webb kids in Lyman. Keep me updated on how your life, school, and events in your life is going. I really appreciate all the emails you have sent me.

Annie I won't hear from you this week but I know that you are doing amazing work. You will have to email some of your missionary tools you use and I will tell you some that I use! One is that here tracting is like trying to squeeze water from a rock so we depend heavely on the Member Referrals. So in other words 55% of baptisms in our area come from member referrals. So we involve the ward as much as possible here. Ok your Turn. Keep up the awesome work.

Megan & Justin, first off Happy Birthday Justin hope you have a great day. I will have to send a present.... of some kind. Well anyway have a great birthday. Megan I haven't heard from you in a while which a guess means you haven't had much happen lately or you are just too busy to write or both. Anyway you will have to do something with Rachel & Natalie.

Mom & Dad (sorry 7 minutes left) Thank you so much for all your letters. I hope that you enjoy your vacation and have a blast. Be careful around the bees. I hope that things keep going good. Try to stay away from Marathons ;) Thank you for all you have done in my life. I owe you sooooo much. Thank you.

I know that this church is the true church of Jesus Christ. He leads and guides our chruch today. It is because of the Atonement that I now we can feel peace, joy, and happiness in our lives. Jesus Christ made it possible for us to have that eternal joy and happiness in our lives. I am so so grateful for family in my life. I have seen the importance of family and I am so glad that you are all in my family. I love you all and hope you have a fantastic week.

Love your favorite Elder, Son, and Brother

Landon Webb

P.S. can you please send me copies of all the Mo Tab CD's we have and also a copy of the mission essential cd I hope that one of you knows what I am talking about. It's on my Ipod so who ever has that you can probably find it on there. I know it is a cd we have though.

Annie’s Letter

Hello family! I hope everyone has been having a fabulous week! It sounds like you have! First off...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUSTIN!!!! I HOPE YOU HAVE A FABULOUS DAY! Your card is in the mail. Am I the greatest sister in law ever or what? I remembered your birthday all by myself :-)

Congrats on finding the bee's nest mom! I'm so proud of you! Dad, I'm glad you're staying busy. Please try to be nice to people from other countries when you talk to them on the phone. Megan and Justin hope all is going well! I'm sure you guys are busy busy! Pet your dogs for me. Natalie sounds like you stay pretty busy too! I'm so excited for you to be going to college soon. You're going to absolutely love it! College is the best! Jon, thanks for all the hard work you do! Man, it seems like my family is just working you to death! I'm jealous you two got to go to PBR. I have wanted to go to that since it opened! That's okay. It'll still be there when I get back. Rachel, I'm so glad you have had a fun summer. Way to go on getting Mom to ride! I bet that was way fun! Mom, I hope you're not too sore. But I'm betting you're sore. Everything here is going really well. We met some awesome people while we were tracting this week and had some great conversations. Good potentials, but not quite ready. But they will be. :-) Olivia is doing well, she is working hard on not smoking. We have this awesome 15 step plan we gave her. If she does it 100% then she will quit smoking in 7 days. Guaranteed. So we will see her on Wednesday and see how she did for the week. I know she has been cutting back so far so that's good. It's all up to her. I can't make her do 100%, even though I would love to! She has such a great testimony. She is so excited about the gospel and is even doing missionary work herself! She is pretty fantastic. The only concern with her is getting her to church. She gets sick on Saturday nights so she has been unable to come. This is so important! Now we are at crunch time. If she doesn't come to church for the next 3 weeks we will have to postpone her baptism. That would be awful! She has already invited her friends and family and she is just so excited! But she's gotta come. So we will just pray that she will be well this weekend so that she can come. Now let me tell you about the miracle this week. This is such an awesome story!

We a mission goal of getting 50 baptisms in August. We have been praying and fasting and working hard to be able to contribute and not rely on the other companionships in the mission. (Bonus, check out mormon night for the Columbus Crew... If we get 50 baptisms we get to go to the Crew game (pro soccer) and all the missionaries get to be on the field at halftime and members and investigators can get discount tickets to the game! I'm stoked!!) Well...On Friday we got a referral from the media center. This kid wanted a Book of Mormon and wanted to know more about the church. That same evening we got a call from Sister Missionaries in Kirtland about him, he was chatting with them. He really wanted us to contact him. We promised we would as soon as possible. We went to his home the next day but no one was home. So we called him and he told us he would call us back. Sunday after church we had a missed call from him! So we called him back...and missed him. But then he called us back! And asked if we could meet with him at the church right then! We said of course! So we quickly called a member, Shelly Lundstrom and she came with us. We love the Lundstrom's. They are very missionary minded and so willing to do anything they can to help us out. So we run over to the church and met Kyle. Kyle is great. He has been involved in the Marysville ward scout troop (when he was younger) and knows several of the families in the ward. He has member friends, has attended church once, and has met with missionaries before and just really been surrounded by members for a lot of his life. We extended a baptismal invitation to him and we barely got to finish the question before he answered "YES" not maybe or a hesitant yes, a resounding total and complete yes. This boy has a testimony that is growing and he has a desire! We are very excited! He wants to be baptized before he goes to college in a week and a half... he will have only attended church twice at that point and we don't like doing confirmations at the baptism. So we called Elder Harris (our DL) and asked what he thought he said "it should be okay, call the assistants" so we called the assistants and Elder Lund said "baptize him and confirm him! But ask President first." So we called President Nilsen this morning...and couldn't get a hold of him! His family has been unavailable all weekend as his daughter got married on Friday...to a former assistant. haha! anyway... that means this story is at a cliffhanger ending right now. I will be able to tell you... "the rest of the story" (thank you Paul Harvey!) next Monday. But pray that everything will work out so he can be baptized! He is our August baptism! he has been so prepared! He is just a stellar kid! We have another lesson with him tonight. We have to get through all the lessons before August 21 (the baptism is scheduled for the 22 and he has to have an interview...) so we will be seeing Kyle a lot this week! This is one of those mission miracle stories. When you have faith, work hard, and never give up Heavenly Father really does bless you. Don't ever forget that.

Also, I did get my box! Thank you sooo much! I LOVED the pictures! Natalie I absolutely love your hair cut! Megan, I like yours but I'm not completely sold on it. Sorry. It is cute though. :-) And thank you so much for all the pictures! I love them! They are in my journal. JOURNAL #2!! ya, I finished my first journal on Saturday. I'm officially on the second one. So I'll probably need a new one around December. I'll keep you posted :-) They just need to match. haha. Anyway, you guys really are the greatest family in the entire world. I am so lucky to have you all. I love you all so much! And I can't wait to hear more from you! Have a fabulous week!

Annie

08-08-2012 (Landon) 08-06-2012 (Annie)

Landon’s Letter

Hey family,

Just like we thought before we didn't move. There is 10 missionaries in our district and 6 got transfered out. 2 areas white washed, 3 of the 6 died (went home because they finished their time out) and Elder Sparks was made district leader. Crazy!

So I have a problem, cashiers keep checking me out :/. haha sorry I heard that and I just had to tell you. A member read us one of his friends facebook status.

How is everything going. Bees...wow thats crazy I am actually not suprised with a nest underneath the porch but in the new addition. That's what shocked me. ya you might want to get that taken care of real quick like.

Rachel, Congradulations on your Personal Progress! That is so exciting for you and I am so proud of you. That is a huge accomplishment. Just think you won't have to worry about it anymore. That is so cool! More riding? wow I am really suprised. Ok maybe not. Keep up the great work

Natalie, are you alive because I haven't heard from you in a long time. Please write me a letter or an email. It would be nice to hear how you are doing.

Annie, I am glad to hear that things are going better for you. But you better keep drinking water. Your work sounds amazing I am so proud of you that you keep trucking away and never give up on the work. Ya I know exactly what you mean when you say it is discouraging. In fact this past week we went to visit a member who has 3 referrals for us. So we stopped by and a guy that was visiting her started yelling at us telling us to leave. Pretty much we haven't seen her since and she is avoiding us. But she has always been crazy like this so oh well. You are such a great example Annie keep up the great work and if your knuckles start hurting from all the knocking. Buy golf balls! Especially when it is cold!

Megan & Justin, Justin how was putting in the sprinkler system? That is awesome! I know everyone really appreciates your help. Megan I hope things at work are going great. Thanks for all you do! I am greatful for both of you and all that you do to help us out. You two are truely a blessing in our family. Love you!

Mom, Hey you can send the pictures now! Just to the same 30 Sergio Ct. I can't believe that school is about to start up so soon. Thats crazy! are you ready to go back to teaching or are you ready to be done with all the work? Thanks for all you do and the great support you are to me!

Dad, thanks for all the emails. I have to agree there is a completely different power when you read a letter then an email. I am so grateful for the example you are in my life. You were right about the sunshine room, it definately brings the sun and all the bugs that come with it. Good luck on getting rid of the bees.

So this week like I said before 3 referrals were kept from us. Sad yes and we tried to get them but she is just always avoiding us. Anyway we went tracting and found 2 new people who are interested in learning about the church. This should be really fun! I am so excited because out of all the houses that we have been to for these 6 weeks we got 2 appointments from both. Even Elder Sparks who has been here for 4 1/2 months hasn't had anything like this before and he has tracted alot here. Almost every street we go down.

Our 2 investigators were suppose to baptized this coming sunday but their parents moved them back into September. So we have to wait more.

Sorry I am almost out of time but some cool things about life here.

1. Milk comes in a bag. Ya a bag it is so weird and I really don't like it. But it keeps the milk from going bad. they are 3 packs in a bag which is 4 bucks.

2. Spiders are huge here. We say a spider the other day that was the size of a tuny. The size of a 50 cent piece. Elder Sparks has seen a bigger spider.

3. James Cameron, the director of Avatar & Titanic lived here once. How cool is that!

We'll thats it for now. I love you all and have a great week.

Love your favorite son, brother, and elder,

Elder webb

Annie’s Letter

Can I just tell you all...

I LOVE YOU!!!!

Thanks. So how are ya'll doing? Rachel it sounds like you have been having SOOOO much fun this summer! I am jealous of all your horse riding adventures. I miss riding! Tell Stan, Emily, and the boys hello and I love them and I miss them! Mom and Dad I'm so glad you are moving forward with the second house! That's so great! You said you were going to take the hot tub out and replace the carpet... does the hot tub go back in after that??? If it does that's awesome! If it doesn't... you could always put it in our house... :-) Landon, sounds like you're kicking butt and taking names. Keep up the good work. Natalie, you move so soon! Are you super excited? Nervous? This is such an exciting time in your life! Megan and Justin I'm sure you two are super busy and doing all sorts of fun things. Cuz that's just what you do. Mom I'm so glad you got to talk to Sister Skaggs! She is awesome! She called me this morning and told me she knew where I got my awesome from. :-) We will be going over to her house today to make yummy jam! and the black raspberry jam... it is really good. I ate some this morning. Update on medical... I came up with a brilliant idea that maybe it had to do with the heat because let me tell you it is HOT!! Everyday is just boiling and it wouldn't be so bad but we are in the heat all the time! I drink a ton of water but I'm pretty sure I let out more than I take in. haha. anyway so now I am eating a banana every day and drinking orange juice every day and still taking vitamin D and we'll see if it helps :-)

Update on investigators!

OLIVIA!! She is just great. We saw her for the first time on Monday. She had met with previous sisters earlier this year but life got crazy and she hadn't been seen since May. Well, she has an incredible testimony. She knows the Book of Mormon is true, she knows the Church is true. She is just absorbing everything like a sponge. She is just incredible. She is on date to be baptized on September 8! We are very excited! Marysville hasn't had a baptism since January! We are still teaching the Gibson girls Grace and Victoria (and their older sisters Gwendolyn and Gabrielle) and they are just so sweet. We love these girls so much! Hopefully they will be able to come to Church and keep progressing. We also found a new investigator... Sunday night at 8:30. After tracting all week and not finding any new investigators and being discouraged we were planning to go see a member last night. But then we were like... HECK NO! We can't give up in the last hour of the week! We're going finding! So we did and we met Pam and had a great lesson about scriptures and prophets. It was sooo wonderful! We will go back and see her on Sunday. Never never never give up! We have to go 100%! All the time, until the very last minute! The miracle comes AFTER the trial of faith. We have to "press forward" (thanks Lehi!)

I have some thoughts I want to share with you. You know how much I love quotes...well, these two are awesome. They are so awesome in fact that we recite them every morning. I don't know if I have told you them before or not... but I really love them so if you haven't heard them before get ready for pure awesomeness!! If you have heard them before... well, get ready for pure awesomeness anyway! I say them every morning and they are still awesome. I still love them. I still feel the spirit so strongly when I say them. But really say them. Don't just read them monotone and boring... say them with feeling! Imagine the voice of an apostle of the Lord as they would have said these quotes. They are so wonderful.

I am called of God. My authority is above that of the Kings of the Earth.

By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is my master and he has chosen me to represent Him.

To stand in His place. To say and do what He Himself would say and do if He personally were ministering among the very people to whom He has sent me.

My voice is His voice, my acts are His acts, My words are His words and my doctrine His doctrine.

My commission is to do what He wants done, to say what He wants said

To be a living, modern witness of the divinity of His great and marvelous latter day work.

and he that receiveth me receiveth Him. While he that rejecteth me rejecteth Him who sent me.

HOW GREAT IS MY CALLING!

-Elder Bruce R. McConkie

You and I today and always are to bless all people in all nations of the earth.

You and I today and always are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the restoration.

Proclaiming the gospel is not a part time priesthood obligation.

It is not simply an activity in which we engage for a limited time or an assignment we must complete.

Rather, missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage.

We were foreordained in the premortal existence and born into mortality to fulfill the covenant and promise God made to Abraham.

We are here upon the earth at this time to magnify the priesthood and to preach the gospel.

That is who we are and that is why we are here.

Today and Always.

-Elder David A. Bednar

Man I love those quotes! I hope you all enjoyed them! Well dearest family and fabulous friends. I love you all so much. Thank you for your support and your prayers. Thank you for your letters and thank you in advance for the letters you are all going to send me this week :-) You guys are all just... the bee's knees. I seriously can't think of a better way to describe you all. If you don't know what the bee's knees means... ask someone a few generations older than you :-) haha. Well, I love you all so much! Have a great week and I can't wait to hear from ya'll next week!

Tata!!

Annie

PS, yes dad I did get a blessing. It was great :-) The Priesthood is so incredible. Thanks to all you worthy and willing Priesthood holders. You're all remarkable!

Behind #2 7-30-12

Annie’s Letter

Hello wonderful family! I love you all! So much! I just thought I would let you know that :-)\

It sounds like you are all having a great summer! Rachel, I hope you got to go on your all day ride. And that's cool that Stan and Emily think they have the shop sold. I'll be kinda sad to go back to no Best Buds. I love that little shop. But I'm glad that everything is working out so well for them! Natalie, sounds like you're having lots of fun stocking up for college :-) You will have so much fun! College is super awesome! Make sure you go to institute and make sure you get involved and make friends and have so much fun! Also study. That's just a little important. Just a little. Megan and Jusin, your dogs are so cute! I can't wait to meet them! It sounds like you guys have been having a blast with my nephews and your new trailer this summer! Landon, I'm glad you had a good week! I am teaching two little kids too! And will hopefully start teaching two more really soon! They are the greatest! Dad, I hope you had fun in Vegas! Haha. I'm sure you're very glad to be home :-) Mom, thanks for reading the article, haha. I haven't got your letter yet but probably today! I'll let you know next week, actually I'll write you today if I get it. :-) Thanks so much for getting me Temple Clothes. I have the greatest family ever. When does school start? For mom? dad? rachel? man, that's it! So crazy! Are you excited for it to be back? Natalie, when do you move to RS? Are you registered for classes? What are you taking? Rach, what do you have this year? Besides Seminary, band, and cantare. haha. Oh and Nae, thanks for telling me about Christy. That is so scary. I will definitely keep her and her family in my prayers. Please keep me updated on her condition.

So a little about my week in Marysville. It's been a lot of hard work. We walk walk walk. Like the pioneer children. Sometimes we even sing. Actually one day when we went tracting we took the ukulele and just played for random people we tracted into. That was really neat :-) We were actually able to to find 3 new investigators this week! 2 are the 2 little girls I mentioned before. They were too young to be baptized when the rest of the family was but they want to learn now. They are super cute and it's great for the whole family becasue they have been less active, but still involved! one of the daughters just got back from YW camp and one of the sons went to Youth Conference in Palmyra! We had 2 great lessons with them this week. It was great. The other two little girls we are hoping to start teaching are actually their cousins who are also less active. The moms are twins! It has been really fun to get to know these two families. We have been trying to get to know as many members as we can to get them to know us, like us, trust us and have a desire to work with us and the Lord in building the Kingdom in Marysville. We have also been trying to go to know all the less active/part member families that we can. We also tract. A lot. I can't tell you how many miles we have walked since I got here! I really can't, I don't have a pedometer but I've been thinking about getting one so that I can see. It's a lot. Tracting is actually how we found our third investigator. She said her son had been wanting to go to church but didn't know which one to go to so we set a time to come back and teach the whole family! Well, the morning of the return appointment came and we got a call... "my son found a church so we don't need you anymore." Sad! Oh well, they have a Book of Mormon and they have a desire so someday... it'll happen! We went to visit a less active part member family last night and the member actually talked to us! His wife is soooo not interested but we did get to talk to him, which according to one member, is basically a miracle. So that was great! His daughter loved us. She cried when we left. :-( But he also gave us 2 spaghetti squash and some tomotoes! Yummy! It was a good contact! :-)

Dad, I just got your email. Nice timing! :-) I really do love the people in Marysville. They are good people. I'm super excited about the hot air balloon festival! That sounds like so much fun! I will definitely keep an eye out for the pig! :-D Tell Uncle Ed Happy Birthday for me and definitely write down the stories about Uncle Bob and his dogs haha. And tell Uncle Ed that I haven't forgot that he still owes me dinner from when I moved back from Florida. :-P Well, it sounds like everything is going well there. I can't wait to get your letters and pictures! That will be SOOOO exciting! I love you all tonz and tonz! I hope you have a wonderful week!

Annie

Landon’s Letter

Hey Fam!!

How are things going in good old Lyman Wyoming? I hope that the dry spell is over because I still can't believe that there were no fireworks. Anyways how is everyone doing?

Rachel are you ever at home anymore? That is cool that you are doing so many fun things this summer! I still can't believe that you aren't horsed out yet. Still that is pretty cool! Well you big bad Junior are you ready for school this year? Tell me about your classes and how things are going!

Natalie your time is almost here to go to college! If I remember right you will be moving in the 19th I think? Anyways you will have to let me know how it is. Remember when you get over there the first thing you need to do is go over to the Institute when there is an activity and find the teacher. He is way awesome! Then of course find friends that are in institute and talk to everyone. You will have a blast. Don't just hang around people from Lyman it gets boring after a while to hang around old friends. Go find new friends!

Annie sound like you are as always doing awesome missionary work. I know how it is to be in a small ward that is mostly less active. Keep working hard to be the best missionary you can be! I will have to write you a letter soon. Did you get my last one? I sent it about 3 weeks ago. I am very interested if you got it or not! Keep me posted on how you are doing :-)

Megan & Justin wow you just keep running. That is awesome! I bet you will have fun in the mountains. Holy cow your dogs have gotten pretty darn big. They are almost to big to be called puppies now. Crazy! Are they still biting like Orion was when I left? How is work going? I hope all is going well for you two!

Mom you should wait to send the picture later I might be transfered I might not next week so I will let you now next week. So next Monday you can send them off whenever and to where ever I tell you. I really doubt that I will be transfered because I am still in training but still I will tell you. Thanks for being such a great Mom! I love you so much! Are you ready for school? I hope it goes well for you!

Dad i'm glad you are back home in the little town of Lyman. Also I am glad to hear that it was a good conference. I hope everything is going good for you in your life right now! Are you ready for school yet? You better not bow to that buffalo :-D Are you still going to take pictures of the sports this year in Lyman? I don't think you would travel with the teams anymore. So are you going to just take pictures at home games?

Sorry like I said before there is not much to write this week. We have 2 investigators who have baptism dates for August 12th and 1 who is not able to come to church and another who is new. We are excited for the 2 with dates but they need to come to church. One is doing fine with church but if the other misses then they will not be able to be baptized on the 12th. We are continueing to work and to find new people. Elder Sparks has tracted pretty much almost the whole town here and he has not found 1 investigator who has progressed yet. We will still try but we turn to the ward for referrals. We got 5 this week. 3 from a sister but she ended up bombing 2 appointments for us to meet with her. So we will continue to try. We have to rely heavily on the ward because there just aren't too many interested people that we haven't found yet. We are doing all we can.

I love you all and hope that you have a fantastic week.

Love your favorite Elder, Son, Brother, Brother-in-law (thanks Megan ;-))

Elder Joseph Landon Webb

Behind… 7-23-12

Landon’s Letter

Hey Fam!

This week was sweet!

Rachel you sound like you are having a great time this summer with the rodeos, hanging out with friends, and mowing lawns ;) Don't worry me and Elder Sparks have to mow the lawn every week because the Hatts are gone and they asked us to. On the plus side we get to enjoy the garden! I can't believe that family. Holy cow!

Natalie I can't believe all you do is work, work, work. That's crazy. Do something else that is fun for a change. Oh and Jon I am really jelous that you are playing softball. There is no softball here and it is driving me crazy this time of year.

Annie You Are Doing Amazing. I can't believe how much of a stud you are. If you continue to keep this up you will have all of Springfield being taught in no time. You are such a great example to me!

Megan & Justin, I hope things are going great with you guys and your dogs. How big are they now? They have to be much bigger then from when I last saw them. (Well Orion anyways).

Mom you have been really busy wow I hope you do send pictures soon. I am excited to see how they turn out. I am also excited to see how the new house looks. That is a really smart investment.

Dad I almost know how you feel but I don't know how it actually is. It must be absolutely hecktic down in Las Vegas. But keep an eye out for the missionaries. I made a few friends with some of them who went to L.V. while in the MTC our districts were close.

So not much happened this week sorry. We taught our 3 investigators and thats about it. 2 are 9 year olds so it's interesting teaching them. They are absolutley crazy. But they are pretty sweet. Also we went on splits this week. I went with Elder Ruttan. He has 2 weeks left on the miss. Crazy but he is an awesome guy. I learned alot from him during that day and hopefully me and Elder Sparks will continue to work harder and be more productive. I am still learning how to become a better missionary and am learning more about being a missionary and the work that takes place.

We'll there is not much more for this week but I will continue to write letters. Sorry I didn't do that last week. It was crazy on P-Day. I will write back this week. But I did get 4 letters this week! From Mom, Dad, Rachel, and Peter so I am pretty happy. Thank you. Well I am running out of time so I will try to write more next week. The power went out during my hour so I lost about 10 minutes of time. Ya the time kept going dumb huh. We'll tell Hi to everyone for me. I miss the valley but it's also pretty out here to.

I love you all and keep up all the hard work. Have a fantastic week.

Love your favorite Elder, Brother, and Son

Landon Webb

P.S. Natalie did Jarom send in his papers already? Tell him to write a letter soon so I can hear how he is doing and so when he gets his call! Even if there not in yet you should tell him to still write a letter.

Annie’s Letter

Hello family… from the city of MARYSVILLE! That's right, I got transferred. Before I forget, Landon please tell President and Sister Scott hello from President and Sister Nilsen in Columbus, OH. They are good friends :-)

Okay, so Tuesday (when they normally tell us about transfers) we got a voice mail from the APs saying "we'll tell you about transferrs TOMORROW night. It's going to be a tiny transfer, don't worry about it." So I was irritated. Well, Wednesday we get a call from President saying that Sister Finefeuiaki will be training. So now I'm certain that I will be transferred ( I had a feeling I would be) so I'm even more irritate with the APs. That night at 10:10 PM we get the call from our District Leader "Sister Webb will be transferred" no big shock, but still I hadn't started packing because I didn't want to start packing and then not get transferred and have to unpack. So now I'm quite irritated with the APs. But I got everything packed quickly (but not very prettily) and went to bed. The next day we show up at transfers and it is the BIGGEST transfer that President and Sister Nilsen have ever had in the YEAR they have been on their mission. Silly, lying APs. What are we going to do with them? I just don't know.

anyway, I am in Marysville now. It is closer to Columbus and in the Columbus North Stake. My address is 270 Stocksdale Dr Apt 6B Marysville, OH 43040 ( don't post that it's just for you, my wonderful family) Marysville is really different. THe ward is a lot smaller (only about 140 families) and they aren't as involved as Springfield. We are definitely going to change that! There hasn't been a member present lesson in the last 6 weeks. We'll change that STAT! We do have a couple of investigators here but none are really progressing. I will tell you one story though... Thursday after we got home from transfers we were tracting. We tracted into Kenny. He told us to come back in an hour. We did. We went in to teach and he had a friend over who was definitely more interested in playing their game of Magic. And it was Sister Richardson and my first lesson together...so it was kind of awkward all the way around. But he is willing for us to come back and hopefully then we will see if he is really interested in learning about the gospel or not. So we do A LOT of tracing. I wonder how many miles we have walked so far in just 3 days. We walked about 3.5 one day and definitely another couple yesterday... it's been great though. We have a goal to meet 50% or the ward at their homes and have a for real conversation (preferably a lesson) with them by the end of the transfer. That's 70 people/lessons! I have no doubt we can do it because in the last 3 days we have met with 10. It will get harder the more we begin to meet though because we'll start doubling up and have to try harder to get to the others. we can do it though. Sister Richardson is from Stafford Arizona. She goes to EAC and knows... BROTHER PALMER!! She loves him and his family! It's a small world after all! I love Sister Richardson! We get along great and have a lot of crazy fun! She is really shy (except when it's just us) and so it is really good for both of us. I am learning to shut my mouth and let her talk and she is definitely coming out of her comfort zone while we're tracting! We work together great! :-) I also found another family here who used to live in Green River, only for a year and they left Wyoming. Their last name was Maze but I doubt anyone knows them there because they haven't been there for years and years like the Lowell's.

Oh, Marysville (you may have recognized the name) is where I went on my very first transfer. This also means... I GET TO DO TRANSFERS IN SPRINGFIELD!!!!!! WITH SISTER FINEFEUIAKI!!! I'm super stoked!

Medically speaking... I'm okay, still same old same old. The only test that didn't come back perfect was my vitamin D. I am slightly deficient. I asked Dr. Kellar if that could be causing pain and she said probably not but I am now taking a supplement anyway. I'll call her in a week and let her know how I'm doing. If no change or worse she has thought of more blood tests she could order. But if I haven't changed I"ll probably end up going to another Doctor in Marysville. Dayton is 1.5 hours away from here so I can't go to Dr. Kellar anymore. C'est la vie. I was reading in the Book of Mormon today, 1 Nephi 17: 1-2. I decided if these women could walk for 8 years and have kids in the wilderness... I can take a little (or a lotta) pain! At least I'm not in labor in the desert 600 years BC! See... it can always be worse. Haha.

It sounds like everyone has been having a great summer. Sorry the rodeo was a bust. But there should be some in Lyman this week right!? So go to those! They'll be awesome I"m sure! Dad, sorry you're not having any fun in Vegas. I don't think I'll ever visit there in the summer. It's definitely a winter vacation spot. "Be a happy little camper" you'll be home soon enough :-) Well, I love you! Thanks so much for the letters and emials! They are super awesome and much appreciated. Oh, there is a conference talk I would like you all to read... It is "Was it Worth it?" by David F. Evans in the April General Conference edition. There is one particular paragraph that Landon and I would very much appreciate if you would take counsel from it. You'll know which one it is :-)

Well, have a wonderful week! I love you all and I can't wait to hear more about how everyone is doing! Have a fantabulous day!

Annie

PS did Ryan ever get his mission call? Where is he going? I always forget to ask but I remembered today!