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Landon’s Letter

Happy New Year to my amazing family! Thank you so much for all that you have given to us! Elder Washburn says thanks for the book and I do to! It is great! I love it because it has trains! :D

This week has been pretty fun! We finished the Book of Mormon in less than a 24 hour time set period! It was so much fun! I have come to see just how the Lords hand is in our lives! You can see and feel it among the Nephites and Lamanites as they are righteous or when they are wicked. It is amazing to see that! Also you can just feel the power that the Book of Mormon has. The Spirit dwells in the pages and anyone who reads it, ponders it, and prays about it cannot say that it's not true. They will know that it is true, that the Book was translated by Joseph Smith for our day, that it is the word of God, and Another Testiment of Jesus Christ. There are a couple of time that they say in the Book of Mormon that they travel to the land northward with many great waters, rivers, and fountains. (Great waters, there are thousands of lakes here, great lakes), (rivers, yup each lake is connected with a river), and (fountains, there are small waterfalls but one great fountain that comes to mind, Niagra Falls). This is just me but I think that they came up around here around Annie's and my mission areas. They definately did when Moroni burried the plates in the Hill Camorah. In fact it is mentioned 3 times. Mormon hid the plates if I remember correctly in the Hill Camorah, Moroni burried them there, and also the Jaradite Nations had their great, many, and destroying battles around there. Crazy right. Look them up don't believe me. I thought it was so cool just to read.

The area here in Stoney Creek is pretty great! I guess I will tell you a little about it. You have talked with Brother Martlew. He is great! There are many great ward members here. the Stevens, the Shepards, the Shepards, the Ayers, the Ayers, (yes double) Kebicks, Verebs. They are all great members and there are more then 40 each week! So alot bigger then North Bay. It is really fun! There are 4 sets of missionaries in Hamilton. Downtown (Zone Leaders), The Mountain (which is up the escarpment. It's just another hill the size of the dugway), Stoney Creek (us :D), and all of Hamilton (Chinese Elders). This is just Hamilton we also include alot of the surrounding areas. Oakville, Burlington (Elder Harrell lives there who is awesome! He served in Sault St. Marie while I was in North Bay. Check out the train game we have it's on there), St. Catherines, and more that I don't even know. We have a good size Zone. In comparrison there were only 5 companionships in the North Zone. We have 6 in our district down here. We only get 1500 kilometers per month so we have to be wise in how we use them. Less then 44.6 kilometers per day. Yikes! We had 80 a day in North Bay. So almost half. But I like it here. It is pretty nice. It is right next to Lake Ontario which is huge. We can see Toronto across the Lake if it is a good clear day which there are not many of those. So we have only seen it once haha. The work here is slow right now. We are trying to find new investigators many different ways. We are stopping by Part Member Families then tracting 10 houses to the left and 10 to the right, same with Former Investigators, and Less-Active Families. So lots of tracting just to try and find the Lords elect and prepared which there are many out there. We just need to know what to say or how to let them see that this is what they need. Any suggestions?

Again thank you so much for the great presents! I wear my hats all the time either around the house or out tracting. Thanks for everything! I love each and every one of you!

Happy New Year! Let's make Webb Family History! Lets deepen our desire, strengthen our roots, and loose ourselves to the work of the Lord! I invite each of you to think about how you can help the work progress whether it be continue to fulfill your callings, talk with someone about the gospel, give them a Book of Mormon, or even just introducing them to the missionaries. No matter how small you think it is you are helping the work move forward! It's still a step, it's still moving forward. Let's make Webb Family History! Let's bring someone into or back into the Gospel! Why? Not because we want them to but because they need it in their lives! Let's make Webb Family History by becoming more converted to the Lord this year, right now. We are Normal People who will be striving for an Extraordinary Eternity! Who wants to give it a try? I know each of you are so busy right now with everything but even fulfilling your callings to the best of your ablity will do. You don't have to serve a mission to serve the Lord. We just need to serve now and choose to help this Marvalous and Great work continue! Let's make 2013 a year to remember that we became more converted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Maybe it's just the missionary in my saying this but I know I will! haha. I know we can!

Thank's for all that you do to help me and Annie out! Thanks for all you do. Seriously thank you! I love each one of you!

Love your favorite Elder, Son, and Brother

Elder Landon Webb