Annie’s Letter
This week has been amazing! Mission Leadership Council, and after that we had a meeting with the sister training leaders. It was so great! After that we had to go to the mission office. We were talking to Elder Creer (he does all the apartments in the mission). I told him I had 2 desks and a dresser in my apartment that he could use (since the other 2 sisters moved out). He wanted them, but was unsure of when he would be able to get to Mt. Vernon. Well, the next day was zone meeting and as I am over the Columbus East 2 Zone I was going to be going to Zanesville for the meeting. I suggested that I could take the mission truck and trailer and bring him the furniture the next day. Haha. Imagine my surprise when he said.. "well, I have a dryer that needs to go to Zanesville...that could work" So he asked Elder Niu (vehicle coordinator) if Sister Arnell and I could take the truck. He asked if we could drive it and Elder Creer assured him that we could. He hates backing it so when we were doing the Fredricktown apartment, he had us back it instead. So Elder Niu handed us they keys. WHAT?! We were stoked! We had silly grins on our faces the rest of the night. NO ONE gets to drive the mission truck, especially with the trailer on it! So we went home, loaded up the furniture, I drove to Zanesville the next day, hooked up their dryer, and took the trailer back to Powell. After zone meeting we were all going back to our cars and the elders were all incredibly jealous. It was so funny.
This week was the Dan Emmett Festival in Mt. Vernon, lots of people. We got to go down one night to do some contacting. The elders had been there a little before us.
a member (that they didn't know, not from the area) grabbed them, told them they had someone for them to meet. So they took them back to meet...THE OSMOND BROTHERS who were there to do a show. Then the got invited to dinner and during dinner the Osmonds had them teach their band members who were not members. How cool for them!
Amazing story: On Wednesday the youth had a temple trip. There is a girl who is friends with a member who has been coming to church, went to youth conference, girls camp, mutual... and she went on this trip and stayed with some adults and got a tour of the grounds. Ran into the assistants (elder beck served in Mt. Vernon for a looooong time) and had an amazing lesson. She decided she wanted to be baptized. Soon. That weekend. So she had a last lesson with the elders that night, an interview the next day and on Saturday she was baptized. It was amazing. We all love this girl so much. She's just sweet as can be and has an amazing testimony. I am so glad I got to be a part of her conversion, and her baptism program! I have played the piano for baptisms and musical numbers more here than anywhere in my life! I love it! Anyway, it was an amazing baptism. The spirit was SO STRONG!
So...miracle! On Saturday, after the baptism, we had planned to go tracting on some side streets near some investigators. But NO ONE was home because of the Dan Emmett Festival. We were trying to decided if we should stick with our plan or go to the festival and contact there. We decided to stick to the plan. We knocked on 2 doors... no one home. The third door, someone was home! Her name is Crystal. She attends the Methodist church in Fredricktown. Her and her husband are both life long members there; the kept going there when they moved to Mt. Vernon because they don't like starting over. But a few minutes later, after talking about the restoration, she said that change is good, they will check it out. So we invited her to church and she said it would depend on how her husband feels. He is having some back problems and is going in to see a general surgeon this week. So we told her we would check in in the morning and bring cinnamon rolls and they could come! Well... we did. And they were't going to be able to come because he was not feeling well, but he said they should definitely look into it and they could go next week :-) That's kind of what we expected. So we go to the church for correlation meeting. All the sudden, the Elders call us out because...CRYSTAL WAS THERE LOOKING FOR US! It was awesome. We set a goal to have 3 at church. We have been struggling to get that many there. But we knew we could do it! So we put forth every effort, we made breakfast for 3 families! We prayed and prayed and focused on inviting people to church. And we had...drum roll please... 4 INVESTIGATORS AT CHURCH! It was exciting :-)
Now, at the end of this week some people from my ward (the Perrine's) are coming out to Utah. She is going to call you and they might just stop in Wyoming if it works out. Her name is Michelle. She's great! Also, mom, could you possibly call the eye doctor and dentist and get some appointments set up for me after I get home? I know the eye doctor books out far... So that would be great :-)
Landon, to answer your question my last transfer ends on October 17. I fly home on the 18. But I have one more transfer before that, on September 5.
I'm glad to hear all is going well with all of you and you are staying busy! You guys are such a wonderful support to me. I love you all so much! Thanks for all that you do :-) ya'll are amazing! Have an amazing week and I look forward to hearing from you all next week :-) tata!
Annie
Landon’s Letter
hey
So i am staying in Windsor North with Elder Minors. So I am excited to be able to stay here!
Not a whole lot this week. We also only have 2 computers. this week and the other missionaries are waiting so I won't be able to write much this week.
We had a pretty good week. We had quite a few teaching appointments which went through so it was really fun. We are having fun!
Rachel- wow you must be busy i haven't heard from you for a while ;) have a great week
Natalie- I am glad things are working out for you. Keep up the awesome work and continue to smile.
Annie- Wow you are lucky i can't believe that you got to drive the mission truck. Lucky.
Megan & Justin- I hope that you are doing well. Say hi to Justin for me. i love you both
Mom- I am going to need to send a few things home so I am going to try and send that by next week. I love you
Dad- Timmins would be fun but during the winter last year it got down to -50 degrees Celsius. So that is really really cold since -40 is the same for Celsius and Fahrenheit.
I love you all,
Love your favorite son, brother, and elder
Elder Landon Webb
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