IT’S LATE-APRIL...

...do you know where your missionary is? (Finally, after much procrastination [on our part], we do!)

25 April 2016

Hey! This week I feel really old. I think it’s part of finishing the mission. I’m exhausted all the time. My back hurts, my shoulder hurts, my feet hurt, and I’m complaining a lot. I really feel like a little old man. Maybe it’s just because I’m actually old! I dunno.

Thanks to my awesome mom for sending me my package! It was great. I think all the candy is already gone. It’s weird to think that it’ll be my last package in the mission. Soon you can just buy me stuff and I’ll get it right away! How exciting!

Friends and family, the church is true. God knows and loves each of you personally and wants you to know it. The world is ugly right now and it keeps getting worse, so we have to let our light shine forth and continue obtaining more light to shine brighter. Darkness cannot inhabit a space where there is a light. No amount of darkness can overpower even the smallest source of light, so keep adding to yours, even if you feel like it isn’t very strong. Read your scriptures. Go to church. Develop a strong personal relationship with your Heavenly Father, and increase your personal light. It is the best defense we have against the gathering darkness. But don’t let it worry you, either! We are going to win! We already know that. The scriptures testify that, thanks to Jesus Christ and His Atonement, we’ve actually already won! So endure. Everything will be alright.

Love y’all. Keep saying your prayers.

Elder Webb

18 April 2016

It’s Monday and I don’t know what to write! It really snuck up on me. I normally write down what I want to share, be it a testimony, an experience, or a funny story, but this week, my page is completely blank.

My companion is good, my zone is good.

The church is still true! No doubt about it.

I bought a new watch today...

I don’t even have pictures! This is going to be a lame email, sorry all.

Love you! I guess if you have specific questions, you can send me an email, because really, I don’t know what to say.

Elder Webb

11 April 2016

Today is my half-birthday! I am officially closer to 24 than to 22. I am closer to being able to rent a car than legally drink. I am closer to 30 than 16. Oh crap, that one actually freaked me out.

I have an awesome story this week that a convert shared with me a little while ago:

Do you remember María and Itzel from Valle Hermoso? Well they went to the temple a few weeks ago and to be able to take some family names, María went to the cemetary (I don’t know how to spell that, but “graveyard” sounds scary). Tragically, public records in Mexico are very poorly kept, and she wasn’t able to find her grandmother’s tombstone. After hours of searching, they were unable to find anything. They were on their way out when María offered a prayer and said that if her grandmother wanted her to take her name to the temple, she needed to make it known. As they were walking out, a wreath on one of the graves close by shook like crazy. María went to look, and her grandmother’s grave was right next to the tombstone whose flower arrangement had moved. She was then able to take her family’s names to the temple and give them the opportunity to accept these saving ordinances that are offered in the temple.

Cool, huh?

Briefly, I want to make known my own testimony of Priesthood blessings. If you haven’t received one in a while, ask your dad or your brother or your home teachers to give you a blessing. It’s one of the most personal revelations we can receive pretty much directly from our Father in Heaven. I asked a missionary who lives with us to give me a blessing the other day and he addressed exactly what I was struggling with without my having mentioned it. God is so aware of us. Let’s accept His help through His authorized servants.

I love you! I really mean it.

Elder Webb

4 April 2016

This weekend was my last General Conference on the mission!

My overwhelming impressions were that we need to be better about remembering Jesus Christ and about unifying and strengthening our families.

Speaking about remembering, there is a song playing in the internet café where I am writing you from. The song says “I can’t remember what I did tonight, or even yesterday” and then talks about how it was a great time and how he can’t wait to do it again. That was just a really interesting contrast between what the Lord’s authorized servants say about what a good use of our memory is and how the world sees it. I don’t mean to condemn that song or artist, but it is so obvious which is the better option, no? One purpose I have found to why God gave us memories is so we could repent. So we would remember how we felt when we made a mistake and be able to compare that to how we felt when we made good choices. To remember our Savior Jesus Christ is part of the covenant we make at baptism, so that we can always have His spirit to be with us, another common theme in this last Conference.

Apply what you learned. If you took notes, review them and prepare to receive new insights with the publishing of the May issue of the Liahona when we’ll be able to read and study these talks again.

This week was pretty crazy. I almost forgot to mention that we got transfers! I’m still in Río Bravo, but now I’m with Elder Cuautli from Puebla, México. We’ve known each other basically our whole missions so we already get along and we’re excited to work these last couple months I have left.

Love you guys.

Elder Webb