8-26-13

Annie’s Letter

ello family of mine! It sounds like everything is going great for you all! It's been a busy week! The Perrines texted me and told me they wouldn't be able to make it :-( Sad. They're fun. But I'm so glad you got to meet the Young's. They are so awesome! I just love them to death! I hope they get to stay again! It was weird when they texted me though... they said that you were telling them stories... I hope you were nice to me! haha. Natalie and Jon, I'm glad you got all moved in! Way to utilize the basketball team! That's so awesome! Good luck to both of you this semester. What are your majors anyway? I don't even know! Rachel, I can't believe you're a senior! That just blows my mind! You're supposed to stay little forever! So you're going to Western next year huh? Man, I really am the black sheep! Do you think it would be possible for me and Rachel to do a musical number at my homecoming? I have this song I really want to do with her. I've got to play it several times on my mission, it's one of my favorite arrangements ever and I really want Rachel to sing it if that's possible. :-) Let me know, I'll send you the music.
So we had this amazing miracle this week! We have an investigator Joni, she was supposed to be baptized the week I got to Mt. Vernon, May 11. After Elder Durnall and Lamm left, we took her but couldn't get a hold of her, the Elders tried as well. She would still come to church and if we caught her at home she was more than happy to meet with us. She has been working doubles all summer at 2 different hospitals, it's been a little crazy. So we found out she had never had a chapel tour. She really wanted to see the building, especially the baptismal font. So we decided to drop by on Saturday and see if we could catch her. When we pulled up, she was standing at the door. So we asked if we could go to the church. We went. We had a great lesson about baptismal covenants and invited her to be baptized! We said a prayer, and she got a beautiful priesthood blessing. The spirit was so strong. Sunday morning, we had her baptismal interview! Yay! She set the date and time. She will be entering the waters of baptism on Saturday August 31 at 3:00 pm. We are very excited! She knows it's true, she just beams when she bears her testimony. It is amazing. Miracles happen. Let me add, Saturday we were supposed to go to the Temple with some recent converts and not less active any more members to do baptisms and we were taking investigators to give them a tour of the temple grounds. i was SO excited! But... last minute, our investigator bailed. I was SO SAD! But the day ended up really well, being able to see Joni and get everything going with her. The Lord really does bless us when we are doing everything we can to do His work. It's awesome. But pray for Joni. PLEASE!

So transfers are next week, September 5. We'll see what happens, it's my last one! Crazy! I'm sure Sister Miller will let you know what's going on! :-)

Also, it's Labor Day Weekend! I can't go to rendezvous, so I hope you do! Even if it's just to get some rootbeer! Go camping this weekend too! This is the second year I'm missing that :-( It's worth it to be on a mission, but man I love that trip! Well, I love you all and hope you have a great Labor Day Weekend and a fabulous week! Good luck with the first week of school, have fun! Tata!

Annie

Landon’s Letter

Hey Webb family!

How was your week? I hope it was good.
I got the pictures of the wedding which was cool to see. Finally a month later! I received the package on Saturday at around 6 which I thought was crazy because I didn't know that Ups worked on Saturdays at 6 so I was really excited to get home that night because I got it after dinner.

This week we were really blessed in our little area. We were able to find 6 new investigators. So we were really excited. A couple of them are really good and I am excited to see how we will be able to help them. We just want to really try and help them by following up on how they are reading and praying.

This week literally flew by so fast that I can't believe that it past by. We weren't crazily busy but we were just out finding the whole time. So we were really excited to see that progress.

With 6 missionaries in Windsor it kinda screws up our P-Day a little bit and we are back at the libraries with 1 hour to do emails. But it's ok we still get everything done.

So today we had Korean food which was delicious. I love it so much and they serve it in stone bowls which keep the food hot longer. Sooo cool.

Today I was reading about Faith in the August Ensign which I think was really really cool. It was President Boyd K. Packard telling the story. He was just called to the Quorum of the 12 and he was receiving counsel from Elder Harold B. Lee. He shared with him that his problem was he wanted to see the end from the very beginning. he was then referred him to President David O. Mckay who gave him counsel and he didn't see how it could help him. After he went back to Elder Harold B. Lee he was told this. We must walk to the edge of the light and then take a few steps into the darkness and then the light will shine in the path we should go. It got me thinking about when we would go camping when we were little. A long time ago before the camper. Our tent would be a ways off in the trees away from the fire and when we would want to grab something from the tent at night, it was dark and we didn't have the flashlights. So as I would walk away from the fire I would walk till I couldn't see a step in front of me. I could see the light behind me but nothing in front of me. So I would have to walk very carefully and slowly until my eyes adjusted which only happened when I moved forward. Then I could see further to see where I need to go to get to the tent. The same is with us today. The journey is longer, further, harder, and appears more daunting but as we move forward there will be times where we have to take a step or two in the dark. But we will not be there for long as we continue to move forward and exercise our faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. 

Rachel- How is our big bad senior baby sister? I hope you have fun this year. Just enjoy it because it will be over before you will blink.

Natalie & Jon- I hope that you find things good over in Rock Springs. Wow you are back in the Rock again. You will have to tell me how things are going over there. Tell Jordan hi for me please.

Annie- Hey that is mean that you made her eat an ant. It's ok I had my trainee eat haring. haha Keep up the awesome work. Don't worry you can come to Western too ;)

Megan & Justin- hey i hope that things go well for you two. Megan are you still working? Will you work until December or when? Keep me posted on things!

Mom- Thanks for you email. That's awesome you are getting new appliances. Are you still teaching reading to students? Are you still in that tiny room?

Dad- It was good to talk to you. Are you back to working all the time? I was wondering have you ridden your bike in a while? Thanks for everything

I love you all and have a great week

Love your favorite Elder, Son, and Brother

Elder Landon Webb