2/11/13

Landon’s Letter

Hello my Family,

Happy Birthday Annie! You are 22? Really holy cow ;)

I hope that you have had a great week! I know we had a pretty good week. Things were pretty boring and then Friday hit. I don't know how bad it got Annie if it got her at all. But I know that we got between 15-17 inches of snow. Let me tell you it dumped and hit us hard. There are mountains of snow on the sides of the street. You almost have to just slowly creap out because you can't see over the banks. They are about 5 feet high in places. They are about 3 feet in most places. Crazy huh? We helped 3 people shovel out their driveways and on top of that our own parking spot. Then we also helped 2 cars get unstuck and we have been stuck 3 times but we got unstuck each time. Our car is an all wheel drive car. That's because they don't plow the inner street roads. We got baned from driving past 7 on Friday. So we had to cancel an appointment with a Less-Active family. It was very exciting! I am glad that I was here to experience it. They say there has not been a storm like that for some while. It was great!

That was pretty well the buzz of the week. Nick is doing great! He is still on track for the 24th and is excited for it. We were low on lessons this week. For the past 2 weeks we have taught 33 lessons. We tried for 14 lessons per week. This week we only had 9 lessons. On the bright side we talked with 120 people. 20 of them came from Monday and Tuesday leaving 100 for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So we were pretty happy with that. We are improving.

Not much else happened this week here. Like I said the snow was the most exciting news we had this week. We are going to Niagara Falls today! We are very excited. I haven't gotten the letter from Dad yet but I hope that I do today. I think it will but the postal service here isn't that good so we tried.

Yesterday at church was so great! I heard 2 talks that blew away my mind. The first was from a sister in the ward who talked about faith, asking ourselves questions and questioning, and also doubts. It was really great the way she explained how that we should always be asking questions about the gospel but it is when we question whether or not it is true is when we are in trouble. It was good. Then a brother from the ward got up to speak. I thought there was no way he could live up to something after that. Holy Cow he did! It was awesome! He gave the example of the Greek and the Persian war. Also about how the man ran 26 some odd miles to tell Greece they won the battle. Basically how the marathon came to be. But he made an interesting point. When the man ran back to tell everyone, he didn't have to but he did because he probably didn't want to miss out on the reward even though he died. He also made the point, and this is where I find it the most interesting, the war had already been won. He didn't need to run and tell these people because they would have heard eventually. The war for us has already been won. Christ suffered and atoned for our sins. The war has been won. We just have to finish the race. I thought is was a good example of how we must endure to the end.

Rachel- I hope things cool off for you soon. Have fun buying a prom dress. It will be fun for you. When is prom? I hope your homework slows down. Are you going to do track this year?

Natalie- good luck on your chem test. You will do fine. Who is your teacher? It's not Nicole is it? I hope you have Rocky. Or is is someone else? Thanks for both of your letters. I got them both this week!

Annie- Happy Birthday. I am going to wait to send your birthday present until I can buy it from Niagara falls. Don't worry it will be a little more ;) I will also be writing a letter and sending it.

Megan & Justin- I am gald your dogs have fun in the fluffy snow. They would have loved it here. We were walking around and a dog was out. He cam and was playing around us. He loved the snow and was playing in it so I can only imagine your dogs!

Mom- Thanks for the portugese! That was awesome! I am gald you fed the missionaries! They need all the meals they can get. We had 5 meal appointments for this week and 3 of them canceled. Oh well. Glad things are going good.

Dad- That sounds awesome. We should totally do it! That is stinking way up there! Do we have to let it go at a certain time so it doesn't interfer with a plane? Do we have to get it okeyed by someone? I am giving a talk this week and I am totaly using a plane analagy. I will have to send a copy of the talk back so you can read it.

I love you all!

Love your favorite Brother, Son, and Elder!

Landon Webb

p.s.

Faith to Follow

By Lisa South

I dream of being a Moses,

An Ester,

A Nephi-

And despair that I

Don't have that

Greatness in me.

But then

I remember-

God doesn't require greatness,

He requires faith;

And some of us must have

The faith to follow.