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