9-24-12

Landon’s Letter

So sorry I have 13 minutes to write a letter but let me tell you it was great to talk to Dad, Megan, and Annie. I wish I could have talked to Mom, Rachel, and Natalie to!

So Elder Badillo is from Colombia and has been out a year on his mission. He is a wonderful hard worker, very humble, and is just a joy to work with. He is pretty much awesome!

This week has not been to much exciting because all our investigators were gone. Ya all this week were gone.

Rachel good luck with Jazz band and Swing Choir in the morning. Now you know how I felt all those years in High School.

Natalie how is college going, classes, and anything else? How is Jon doing?

Annie keep up the stellar work! You are a great missionary.

Megan good luck with everything and I know that the Lord will bless you! He already has and will continue to do so!

Justin hope things are going good.

Mom thanks for the letters I will let you know. Good luck with school

Dad thanks for talking! I love having the updated. glad you had fun with the music thing.

I love you all and thanks for the examples you are

love your favorite brother, son, and elder

Landon Webb

Annie’s Letter

Hello Dearest Family of mine!

First of all, I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! Just so you know.

Second, I have a question I have been meaning to ask for almost 6 months! Rachel, you're probably the best one to answer this question. Did we ever get my hoop skirt back from Shelby Russell? If we haven't...could we please? I kinda like that thing and I really don't want her to keep it forever. It's mine :-) I love it. I want it.

Third... THE COLUMBUS CREW GAME WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

It was so much fun to be at the game! I was glad I went to a soccer game last year so I kindof had an idea of what was going in (Thank you Nathan Hampton!) anyway, it was great we got to see the soccer game, and have a lot of fun and see the missionaries that we haven't seen in SO long... it was just fantastic! And the Crew won! 1-0 in a last minute goal. It was great! So, it was mormon night, but it was more Spanish Heritage night. The only thing they actually did for "mormon night" was show the missionaries for like 10 seconds about half an hour before the game started. Lame. I wonder how president nilsen feels about that... he put A LOT on the line for this game... and we didn't even get to go on the field. It was sad. But still so much fun! THe pictures are me at the crew field, and then one of me and other sisters, we are all posterity of sister cash. Sister Twitchell is my trainee, sister dycus is sister finefeuiaki's trainee, sister finefeuiaki is sister wheeden's trainee, sister wheeden is sister cash's trainee, and I am sister finefeuiaki's trainee. That is a lot of people to have in one mission! And that's not even all of us! I think almost half of the sisters are posterity of sister cash. She is something of a legend. I never met her :-( then there is me and one of my favorite elders, elder birch (from Idaho) he's just a riot and then me and one of my elder's from the MTC elder mcmichael. He was freezing! Cuz he's from GA. It was cold, but not THAT cold. haha.

So I don't really have all that much to tell you guys because I e-mailed you on Wednesday and not too much has happened since then. We had another appointment with Dustin on Thursday but he wasn't there when we got there. We are hoping that he just got confused and thought our appointment was next Thursday. If not... well, we don't know where he lives and he doesn't have a phone. So either he is going to be there on Thursday and he will be getting baptized soon OR someday some other missionaries will find him and he will be ready. We had a sick day on Saturday :-( Both of my lovely companions were sick so I got to study all day while they slept. I watched The Testaments, The Lamb of God, and Special Witnesses of Christ. Plus I read a lot in the gospels. It was amazing! I felt so close to my Savior as I walked with him and learned about him. Then at Church on Sunday during Sunday School we were talking about Christ's ministry in the America's. We watched Reflections of Christ: Another Testament. If you haven't seen those pictures... go look at them. They are just amazing. I was bawling. Much to the amusement of several members of the ward. This week should be a good week. We have set some great goals and I am excited to work hard and see how they go. And next Monday we are having a district PDay. We are going to carve pumpkins and have pumpkin chocolate chip cookies (this won't suprise you...but I love to bake and so I do. It's been a rule of mine to give 1/2 of what I make away for years and so the elders really enjoy that haha) and then the next Monday we should be going to the zoo! I am SO EXCITED! plus, we are going with members who have passes so we shouldn't have to pay anything at all! But I will probably be using some money today at kroger because it's the end of the moth and that means MSF funds are low! I do good, I am really good at finding the cheapest stuff but it still costs money! And I'll probably have to get some sweaters because it's not cold yet, but it is pretty dang chilly! It will be a cold winter! I thought I left stuff kind of out, sorry I should have done better. I don't know if I left my beanies and scarves out... apparently not my sweaters... sorry. :-( Thanks for looking. You guys are great. I think that's really all I have today...sorry this email is kind of lame. :-( I love you all! have a great day! Good luck with school and work and everything, or rachel. congrats on being first chair! I'm not surprised. You're amazing. have so much fun!

Love you guys!

Annie

Letters

9/17/12 Landon’s Letter

I am still here in North Bay so I will be getting the cd's. My new companion will be Elder Badillo who is from South America. I will be meeting him tomorrow and then we will come back and do some work! We picked up a new investigator who will be baptized the 29th of September! It is great! Othe then that not much more. I will be sending home pictures this week hopefully. Sorry there is just so much going on right now that I can't really stop and think to hard just because 100 things are flying past my mind right now.

Rachel good luck on the auditions and keep up that hard work. That is cool that you think you did really well on the tests. That is awesome. Keep up the hard work! Also I hope you are having fun at the dentists office. I know that things will go great for you.

Natalie good luck with school! Hey who have you met at college?

Annie keep up all the hard work. I will admit we have a problem to with singing apostate songs. It is definalely hard to keep them from popping up in my mind.

Megan and Justin good luck with work this week! When is your surgery Justin or have you had it?

Mom thanks for all you do and I can't wait for your letter! How has school been going and how is the garden?

Dad thanks for the updates! I really appreciate all that you do! How is work going?

Sorry again for the shortness of this email. I really do love you all and appreciate all that you do!

Love your favorite Elder, Brother, and Son

Landon Webb

9/19/12 Annie’s Letter

It is game time! TONIGHT I WILL BE AT A PRO SOCCER GAME! WAAAHOO!! THE COLUMBUS CREW, MORMON NIGHT! I AM SOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!! ITS GOING TO BE GREAT! I WOULD RATHER GO TO A FOOTBALL GAME, BUT HEY, I'M ON A MISSION AND GET TO GO TO A GAME! I WILL TAKE SOCCER! BESIDES, SOCCER GAMES ARE REALLY FUN. I went to a real game last year and had a blast! Plus, all 200 missionaries will be there and will be on the field at half time. It's gonna be totally wicked! But it is also game time in Marysville, OH! WE have had some very spiritual, powerful lessons this week. The work is going forth! Heavenly Father is our coach and our teammate! He is helping us with His children. Some are just SO prepared!

Mark and Olivia: We had a great lesson with Mark and Olivia about faith and sacrifice and obedience using the wonderful example of Abraham and Isaac. The spirit was SO strong! Sister Twitchell invited them to think about a baptismal date...which also means a wedding date... unfortunately, Olivia's mom is SO not okay with them getting married right now...but she is just fine with them living together. Man, it is so sad how warped this world has become! :-( On the bright side, we had another lesson with Mark and Olivia yesterday and we taught the Plan of Salvation. It was another great lesson. Olivia asked if Drew Ellington, a member of the ward, would be able to baptize her! Of course we said he would probably be honored and that she should definitely ask him! The catch is, he goes back to school at BYU-I in January and so it would need to be before that... which we think is great! Hopefully everything will work out. Remember, hope is not flimsy! IT IS AN ABIDING TRUST! Their reading has also improved in the last week and they are doing so well with their word of wisdom challenges and their family is supporting them AND they came to church on Sunday even though they weren't going to (thank goodness for the spirit!) AND they brought Mark's cousin Anthony and will hopefully be bringing him again this Sunday! So on Sunday, I texted Olivia in the morning and she said they weren't going to be able to come because they were both sick again. I asked if she would even be able to come for the first hour, because I was speaking and I wanted them to hear my talk! And I promised that, prompted by the spirit, that if they came to church they would feel better this week. So they came. And loved it. And they feel better this week. And they are going to come to the ward activities this week. And the next couple of weeks. THEY ARE PROGRESSING!!!

Valeta: We found Valeta last week and I honestly didn't think she would progress, I thought she would be more of a "i really like the company" investigator, and she does like the company but we saw her yesterday and we were just chatting and Sister Twitchell and I were both thinking "I wonder if we're even going to get the lesson in here?" But then all of the sudden we were talking about the restoration. It flowed so marvelously! The spirit was SO strong. It was such an amazing lesson! Sister Twitchell said "you said you feel like something is missing. This could be it!" She is so bold and just wonderful. She is a fabulous missionary. Anyway, I think Valeta will progress. And the ward will love her and she will be an amazing member! She already gave the restoration pamphlet to her daughter. Her granddaughter is in a Catechism class and they are learning about different religions so she was really excited to have her own book! Cute! Valeta told us she felt "overjoyed" after we talked about the first vision and man, the spirit was SOOO strong. It was just incredible!

Dustin: We were going finding on day on Emmaus and Sister Twitchell had a prompting that we should go talk to this lady she had seen sitting on her porch. So we did, and she wasn't interested but she was very nice and we left a family proclamation with her. While we were walking away Sister Twitchell asked me why she had had that prompting and if it had really been a prompting or what happened because she thought she felt it so strongly but then she wasn't interested. I was telling her that sometimes we get promptings for reasons we don't understand. Maybe we just needed to talk to her that day to help her be happy or something or maybe it had to do with something else completely. At that moment I saw a man fishing at a park. And I knew we needed to talk to him. So we went over and started a conversation about fishing...and impaling ducks... and worked it beautifully into a Gospel discussion. We got a return appointment for 2 days later. At the same park. So we went back on Monday and he was there! I'm not gonna lie, I was a little nervous but I knew he needed the message and I was so hoping (abiding trust) that he would be there. AND HE WAS! So we had a great lesson with him as well! There was a point in the lesson that we ran away and left him behind, thankfully we realized it and went back and picked him up. We never would have seen Dustin if we wouldn't have gone and talked to that lady. Heavenly Father knows what he is doing. He has a wonderful plan and all we need to do is live our lives in a way that we can recognize the promptings and have the courage to act on them. THAT'S IT! He wants this work to progress. We just need to have the faith and guts to make it happen.

It really has been a wonderful week!. I just can't tell you about all the times I have felt the spirit and things have just been so wonderful this week. Our planning has been better, our faith has been stronger, we have been more united, and the work is going forth!

I look forward to seeing you at the game! Or, since you'll probably be reading this after the game, I definitely enjoyed seeing you at the game! It really is game time! And I DO NOT intend to sit on the side lines. This is the big league. I intend to play every quarter, every minute, every play. I want to be exhausted to the point of oblivion by the time the game is done. That is the only way to truly be satisfied and happy about the game. To know beyond any shadow of a doubt that you gave every thing you could. We actually taught a lesson on the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a little boy this week who is preparing to get baptized. His mom is recently reactivated and Charlie is excited to get baptized. We knew his attention span is a little short and so we came up with an awesome analogy. Football.

Faith: having a desire to play the game, knowing you can win and playing TO win.

Repentance: Fumble recovery. We all fumble once in a while, it's part of life. But as long as we jump on the ball and keep possession we are going to be okay.

Baptism: The first touchdown. But you can't win a game with only one touchdown, especially when you're playing against the Devil and his angels. So you have to continue to make touchdowns, each week by partaking of the sacrament.

Receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost: Your teammates. You can't win the game without them. They are they to help and protect you.

Endure to the End: You've gotta play until the end. Every minute, every quarter.

And of course Christ is the coach, always there to help us become better. He's played the game. He's been there. He knows the things we need to do do be the best we can be.

Dad, you're the best daddy ever and I love you! I will be very excited for the day when I can just call you again. I really do miss that a lot. People ask what I miss most and that is what I tell them.

Mom, I did get your letter! Thank you soo much it was great to hear from you! I would LOVE to have one of Rachel's stuffed animals if she can spare one... haha. And I'm sorry, I should have kept those winter clothes out somewhere! But it is getting really chilly here and I am definitely going to be wanting them. Thanks for being willing to dig. I do have one pair of boots here that we bought before I left. The two pairs that I have there still... one is grey and one is black. They are both tallish (about the same height) and really should be in the same box. How is it to not be in relief society anymore? I bet that is a change. I couldn't believe you have been in for that long! I am so excited for you and dad to go to New England! That will be such an awesome trip! I am glad you are finally getting to take it. Next, Alaska. Then... PORTUGAL! haha. Megan, it sounds like you are already an awesome YW president! Which, really doesn't surprise me at all. Justin, I hope work is going well and you recovered from your surgery well. I hope you got lots of ice cream. Or pepsi. Landon, you are TEARING IT UP! Congrats bud! The work there sounds like it is just going awesome! You are such a great missionary! I am very proud of you! I talk about you all the time. By the way, someday you will be training Elder Kaden Twitchell. He doesn't have his call yet, but he is my greenie's little brother. And we decided that he will be going to Toronto and you will train him. It just makes sense. Natalie, I am glad you are spending so much time in the institute! It is a wonderful place! You're right about the spirit. Cling to it! Learn from it! it will bless your life so much! Rachel, It sounds like you're crazy busy! That's good! Keep up the great work chica! You will do great with jazz band auditions and challenges. Play that trumpet for me! I miss it SOOOOOOO much! Well, I don't have much time so I'm gonna have to go but I love you all so much and you're the best! Also, I will be buying stuff today with personal money...like sweats and stuff because Sister Nilsen put us on a 3 a week cardio rule WHICH I LOVE! but it's cold at 6:30 and I have to get some Omega-3. I hate spending money. MSF or personal. I hate shopping. Did you ever think you would hear me utter those words? Well, I say it every week. Ask my companions. I. HATE. SHOPPING. But some things must be done.

One picture is me and Sister Twitchell, (we are still in a trio but the picture of the 3 of us is really blurry. I didn't take it.) and the other pictures are me and the skaggs/the skaggs children. I love that family so much! They are the greatest! Well, besides my own. Also, I got to talk to Katie Buskin this week! And I'll get to see her in October! I'm so excited!

Thanks for being the bestest family in the entire world! I am so lucky to have ya'll! I just don't know what I would do without you! I am so thankful I never have to know! And that is exactly why I am here. To help other people never have to know what they would do without their families! Read the talk by President Eyring called "our perfect example" NO EMPTY CHAIRS! I love you all!

Annie

9-10-12

Annie’s Letter

Hello dearest family! I hope you are all having a wonderful week! Things have been going great in the Great Ohio! (With a name like that, how else could they be going?!) I hope you all got the opportunity to watch the CES devotional last night by Elder Holland. If you didn't go find it online. HOLY COW! That man is just so incredible. It was one of the best talks I have EVER heard. He talks about fighting Babylon and establishing Zion. In ourselves, with those around us, and in our communities. It is a fight! It was really just an incredible talk. Please look it up. Everything is going really well here. I LOVE being in training again. It is a wonderful opportunity to learn and grow more and improve myself as a missionary. And Sister Twitchell is completely awesome. I'm a little confused at how she ended up being born to her parents in Vegas and I ended up with you all in Wyoming (not that I'm complaining!) I think one set of parents must have had us both and the other set kidnapped one of the babies. Because she is my long lost twin. I'm convinced. haha. We have a lot of fun together. And she makes it significantly easier to deal with other...challenges. She is such a wonderful blessing. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve her and serve with her. Now, some responses to some of your e-mails. Rachel-congrats on the new job! That's so awesome! Man, our family should all have perfect teeth. With 3 dental assistants, and all the braces and retainers we have had... we have no excuse to ever have anything wrong with our teeth! haha. I'm sure you will love your job. It sounds like you are having a great time. I'll have to keep an eye out for Elder and Sister Hughes. It's always fun to talk to people who know people! I bet they're awesome. My clothes (sweaters and boots) are in a green Tupperware box in the shed...sorry. (I think they're all in green ones...) it is starting to get chilly here (like 65 degrees!) and I totally going to need warm clothes! I didn't think about anything except my coat before I left otherwise I would have had it more organized. Sorry. And dad, the frog is also in a tote in the shed. Rachel I can't believe how busy you sound! You are going to have such a great year in school! Megan, congrats on the new calling! You are going to be the coolest YW president ever! I'm a little jealous of Rachel, not gonna lie. But I had Janet and Dawn and they super awesome so it's all good. I hope you don't get too stressed with all you have going on! Justin, good luck on the surgery. Any surgery, no matter how minor, is no fun at all. Natalie, congrats on your job girlie! And just keep plugging away at school. Make sure you get involved. Being engaged is no excuse to be anti social. Make friends and have fun. Jon, I hope school is going well for you too! Senior year is a blast! I hope cross country is going well! Mom and Dad, thank you so much for all you do for me. You guys are the best. I seriously have the greatest parents ever (even if they kidnapped me. haha) Landon, keep working hard. I know you are. I love getting to read your e-mails. You're such a great missionary bud! I'm glad the renters are in the house, what a relief that must be! Good luck pulling out the garden and everything you guys have this week. I was sad to hear about Vonda. But I know she has been suffering for a long time so it is a good thing. I hope Mellie is doing okay. They were married for a loooooong time. Well, here is some of what is going on here:

Sister Twitchell and I have a problem. We are both horribly addicted to apostate songs! They pop into our heads ALL THE TIME! There is an apostate song for everything! So we have a goal for this week. NO MORE APOSTATE SONGS! I know that as we focus our thoughts more on songs that uplift us and help us think about our Savior we will be blessed so much. Not that we think of bad songs, but they are songs of the world and we are SO NOT of the world! (Well, we're trying really hard not to be). Every time a song pops into one of our heads we say "NO!" and we both start to sing a hymn or primary song together to get the other song out of our heads :-) IT's been working great so far. This week has been a really good week. We found 3 new investigators! Valeta, who I hope will progress but I think she just really misses her daughters and wants us to come over. We will gauge the situation and make a righteous judgement. Hopefully she will be willing to learn more about our Savior Jesus Christ and His restored gospel. The other two are Jared and his mother. Jared is in the scouting program in the Marysville ward and has some good friends who are members. After an activity one night he started asking some questions. The scout master told Sister Ellington who told us. We went over and talked to Jared's mom (who attends a non-denominational church). She was SUPER excited that Jared was showing interest in ANY religion at all because he has NEVER showed any interest in hers. (he is 10). So we went back over with Sister Ellington (who is great. If there were awesome member awards...she should totally get one. In fact, do you think we could just get a name tag for her? She is basically a full-time missionary! She helps us out with so much all the time). Anyway, Jared is 10 so his attention span isn't too long but he did listen and ask good questions and we think he actually got quite a bit out of the first lesson. We will go back and finish up the restoration tonight (the restoration DVD is totally inspired!) and then next time we teach him it will be the plan of salvation...using Lego's. I'm super excited for that lesson. It's going to be awesome. Mark and Olivia kept postponing lessons because they were sick. So on Friday night we decided we just needed to go see them. So we took a "get better bag" complete with chicken noodle soup, saltine crackers, and ginger ale to our sick investigators. They loved it. And they told us...THEY HAVE DECIDED TO GET MARRIED! The unfortunate thing is it won't be for a while. We are working on that though. I told them I would totally plan their wedding (because that's great service and it's also using my talents) and the bishop has already offered to perform their marriage... FOR FREE (of course) and they could use the church (also for free!) and there is a Sister in the ward who makes wedding cakes who would totally do theirs! Their wedding is already planned! All they need to do is show up and say "I do." ...and get a marriage license. Too bad forgery is a bad idea. JUST KIDDING! haha. So Sister Twitchell has been sick this week. She is a trooper! She just keeps going and going but we did make sure she got some good rest. One day we left her with a member of the ward so she could sleep and get better and Sister Richardson and I went to the appointments that we had for that day. She is just such a trooper. Thankfully she is much better now. She is just a stellar missionary and is doing so much! She is so teachable and she is such an amazing teacher! It has just been great to work with her. I love her so much!

Sorry this e-mail is so scattered. It's been a crazy morning already. Oh, I haven't had sourdoughs yet, but we have barely seen the Skaggs at all this week :-( We have been really busy and they have been really busy...life is just crazy! But I'm sure I"ll get them sometime. Again, sorry it's so discombobulated... but I love you all and I hope you all have a stellar week! Thanks so much for your prayers and for all that you do. Remember the gospel is true. It is perfect. It is a wonderful life long process that we have the privilege to know about and to take part it. Improving and perfecting our selves is something we can always do better at. Always. Remember to watch Elder Holland's talk (really watch it, don't just read it, he speaks with such power!) and remember to NEVER CHECK YOUR RELIGION AT THE DOOR!" I love you all! (I think I've said that about a million times!) Have a great week! I can't wait to get letters and stuff this week! Tata!!

Your favorite Sister...

Annie

Landon’s Letter

Yumm ;p is right that face is a gross face. We ate cow stomach this week ;p sooo gross. But it was definately an experience that we will not have nor want to have ever again but I won't forget it. Also we had a syrp chug. Ya that's pretty Canadian huh and stupid we both threw up afterwards. haha but it was fun. Yes I got your letter last week. sorry I was in shock and completely forgot. Don't send my anything this week tranfers are next week. I hope I get the cd's I will let you now in a week if not 2 weeks. Thank you for burning them and sending them off.

So my time as a trainee is almost done. Actually jk I will never stop learning. I am going through the Book of Mormon and I am reading some pretty cool stuff. I just finished 1 Nephi and there is so much cool stuff in there. I am learning a lot. The work is going great. We went and talked to 2 investigators who we tracted into about a month ago and haven't really talked to them since. We went and invited her and her daughter to come to church and they did! Also there was another baptism of Meagan Fretz and James was confirmed this week. It was awesome. I will have to send in my card soon.

Rachel congrats on getting the job and making it into swing chior that is so cool. Keep up all the great work and learn as much as possible from Megan she will be a great Young Womens President.

Natalie first off I know I sounded a little harsh last week but I was just completely shocked. Congrats! I am really excited for you. Ok Story Time! :D you'll have to tell me and Annie! How is school going? How are your classes and teachers? Have you made many new friends? Jon congrats and good luck with school bud. How are sports going?

Annie keep up all the awesome work. You would so go frog kissing why am I not suprised. Good luck with your training that is awesome you get to train someone who is in the shoes you were not too long ago! You will help them thats for sure.

Megan congrats on the new calling. I swear you just keep getting more and more callings. That is really awesome I know that you will be blessed so much for all you do. Guess what you can do missionary work now too! How exciting is that! Well you were earlier but now you will have even greater chances to do missionary work!

Justin I hope work is work haha.

Mom thanks for all you do. How is school going. I am glad you have an air conditioner in your room. You can take ours we don't need it anymore it was 11 degrees this morning I think thats aboout 45 or 48 or something like that. Either way it is cooling off. Are there any projects you will be doing this week or soon. Where is New England? like the patriots?

Dad thank you for burning the cd's. How is the computer world going at Mountain View? Thanks for all the sports updates. I hop that everything is going great for you. I have seen so many airplanes lately that I have been constently reminded of when we went to the air show. Do you remember that time we got soaked and watched airplanes? That was fun we should do it again sometime!

Well that's it for now but remember I love all of you and appreciate all that you do for me.

Love your favorite brother, son, and Elder

Landon Webb

ps: cow stomach looks like pieces of fluffy towels and they feel like that when you chew them except if feels like you left the towel in the sand so it's crunch because of the rocks. Yumm ;p

Letters 9-4-12

Annie’s Letter

Hello family! Yes, you read that subject line correctly. I have a daughter. Her name is Sister Twitchell and she is from Las Vegas. In other words... I'M TRAINING! How scary is that?! I feel like it's a bad case of babies having babies! I'm sooo not old enough to be training! I haven't even been on my mission 5 months yet and I've barely been in the field for 4 months! But apparently the Lord, and President Nilsen, have decided that I can be trusted with this scared calling. I am very humbled and grateful for the opportunity that I have to be serving Sister Twitchell as her trainer. But we don't call it training. When I was in training we called in Aoaoga, well for Sister Twitchell's training we call it....

SUPERHERO ACADEMY!!

Yeah, we're pretty cool! It has been great to get to start going through the training program again. I am learning a lot! I'm pretty sure the actual reason I was called to train was because I needed to go through it again! But it's going really well. Sister Twitchell is full of "green rage" she is just on fire! She loves the gospel and has such a fantastic testimony. I love her so much already! The minute I walked into the room where the new missionaries were waiting for their trainers... I didn't see her. Haha. She is the only new sister that came in this transfer. I was so disappointed when I walked into the room and didn't see her. But then she walked in and I was just so full of love for this Sister! I am so grateful to her for being willing to serve our Heavenly Father. I have already learned a lot from her! She is just the best greenie I could ever hope for! Sister Richardson is also still with us. I love being back in a trio.

Dad, Sister Skaggs DID get the sourdough recipe! She told me about it the other day when we were at their house and I was SOOOO excited! That is the food I have missed the most and it's the one that no one can make! So I'm stoked she asked for it! She took us to transfers and then out to lunch at Culver's and I had a sourdough sandwich and I mentioned how sourdough pancakes were like the best thing ever! And then I guess she asked for the recipe! Yum! Also...

"if you've never been frog kissin' then you don't know what you've been missin'..." I can now sing that song with authority! I have officially kissed a frog! It took a couple of attempts but I did it! We saw it and I mentioned that someday I was going to be brave enough to catch a frog so I could kiss it but it wasn't going to be that day. So Sister Twitchell caught it and eventually I kissed it! Poor thing was terrified though. It peed. And every time my mouth got close to it his heart rate increased. He thought I was going to eat him! But now I can cross that item off of my bucket list. It has been on my bucket list since I saw a huge-o frog outside my apartment in Orlando in 2010! (that was the day I started my first blog theprincessandherfrogs.blogspot.com) Oh, in case you were wondering, he didn't turn into a prince. I think it might have something to do with the fact that I'm on a mission. Maybe.

So about the work...

On Wednesday last week we had an appointment with Mark and Olivia, which went really well! We taught the restoration to Mark (review for Olivia) and Olivia was helping to teach and testify and BDAW... she's totally a little missionary! She has such a great testimony growing and Mark is really seeing how the gospel can bless his life! They want it sooo much! We extended a soft invite to Mark to be baptized, which he accepted! It was great! Then we were talking about things they will need to do before they can be baptized, such as have the rest of the lessons and stop smoking (which they are doing pretty well with). Well, then I mentioned the law of chastity. We had had the law of chastity lesson the week before and it went really well, but must not have quite sunk in. So we told them that they couldn't be baptized if they were still living together and talked about options (marriage or move out). I honestly felt like I had hit them both in the face with a bag of bricks. I was almost crying- mark gave me tissues because he could hear it in my voice. It was hard. But this week they have been thinking and discussing and praying about what they should do about this and we have an appointment with them tonight that I am excited/anxious for. They both want the gospel. They are realizing the blessings it brings and they want to be baptized! I hope this doesn't become a major stumbling block for them. That night was the first time I left a lesson and started to cry. But that night we were praying and I was thinking about them and the scripture John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you.l Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." Wow. I am still worried about them but I know that God is aware of the situation and He loves them and everything is going to work out.

Now on to you guys...

Megan and Justin, yay for getting the topsoil done! Sorry I couldn't be there to help! I would have loved to! But I'm kindof in Ohio...

Rachel, I'm glad school is going well. Sorry basic foods is a bust. Just wait until you get to start cooking and then it will get better! I hope!

Mom, I hope school is going well for you! Winter clothes: You can send them anytime. My coat, and some sweaters would be good (I'll most likely be in Marysville until at least November since I'm training!) Also, my grey and black boots. But could you spary them with water proofer first? Thanks soooo much!

Dad, I hope school is going well for you too! And thanks so much for burning the CD's! If you haven't sent them yet, don't send me the one with the musicals and stuff. We don't listen to that here in the OCM! Haha. However... if you could possibly find my green frog (I'm not sure where it is... probably in the shed) I really miss having a stuffed animal to sleep with. I need him. I don't want figment because I don't want anything to happen to him. So if you could please send me my froggie I would really appreciate it.

Side note...I will be buying an electric blanket because I freeze at nights! And it is just going to be getting cooler and cooler...plus, like normal people, my companions like the air conditioner. I'm becoming more and more like you dad. Just leave it at one temperature and then if you're cold put on a jacket! All this up and down stuff is driving me crazy! It'll be an icebox and then an oven. But mostly an ice box.

And I feel like I forgot something... oh yeah...

CONGRATULATIONS NATALIE AND JON!

I am very excited for you two! Although still a little miffed that you're getting married before I get home. Oh well, at least I will be able to go to your sealing the next year. But I can't help plan your wedding! :-( Your loss. Please send me letters! I want to see the ring, I want to know how Jon proposed... YOU HAVE TO TELL ME THESE THINGS!! So I expect a letter THIS WEEK! Also, I hope school is going well for both of you. Love you both!

Well, have a great week everyone! I love you all so much and I am so grateful for all the love and support and letters(*hint*) that you give. You're seriously the BEST FAMILY EVER! I am so lucky to have each and every one of you and I don't know what I would do with out any of you! (Justin and Jon, you're included in that! Yay for more brothers!) Thanks for your e-mails. I love being able to read them! I'm glad you got to see John and Jan yesterday. I love them and miss them! Tell them hello for me! And everyone else. Love ya'll!

Tata!

Annie

Landon’s Letter

So I have 9 minutes to write. the work is going good.

We have been truely blessed. Our investigators are doing good. James got baptized and Megan is getting baptized this week. then in 2 weeks Rob and Jordan should be getting baptized and hopefully Kevin. We will keep working to help them reach what can be eternal happiness.

I saw Elder Hyatt this week and talked to him, I can't wait for the CD's!, we saw a black bear run across the road not even 30 feet infront of us out in the middle of no where and that was pretty cool. We also saw a racoon walk infront of our window this morning and we went outside to go see it. It was a younger racoon and it was up in a tree by the time we got outside. It was pretty darn cool.

I am so grateful for all of my family in my life. I have seen how much a family can impact your life. Especially this week. We were studing the the 5th discussion (temples, marriage, priesthood, church assignments) go figure huh. But I am so grateful for all of my family. I am so grateful that Heavenly Father put me down in our wonderful family. You are the greatest blessings in my life. Thank you.

Love your favorite Elder, Brother, and Son

Landon Webb