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