Monday, March 15, 2010

Hola familia,

So this week has been great. We had found a Peruvian mother who is already a member and her son who is ten years old and has been waiting to be baptized for a while. She is now active and coming to church and her son (Fernando) is going to be baptized in a couple of weeks. Things have been going great with the work. We´re also teaching a Nigerian man that speaks english and he is progressing towards baptism. The Lord is putting people in our path in these moments and its great to find the people that are truly prepared for the Gospel. I know that the Lord keeps His promises when we do our part. But our part requires effort. We always feel so blessed when these things happen. We also found another Peruvian couple that are progressing towards baptism right now. There are a lot of people here that are from Peru, and they´re always really nice and acepting of the Gospel because they come from humbler circumstances. Also, President May came to our sacrament meeting this week which was fantastic. He bore strong testimony of the BoM and the daily things we need to do to increase our faith. He told us about the island Juan Fernandez, which is part of our mission and normally has a companion of missionaries there, about how it was hit by a tsunami after the earthquake. The missionaries were on high ground and so they are fine (they´re now here in Santiago because almost the whole island got destroyed by the wave). But he told about this picture he received from them. Theres a picture of a bunch of buildings and two large trees and then a picture after the tsunami, and everything is gone except for the two trees. He explained why they remained, because the trees had grown their roots deeper and deeper everyday until they became unmovable. What an awesome message that is for us, that we should grow our roots deeper and deeper everyday by reading, praying, pondering, and going to church, (in spanish its called LOMA, Leer Orar Meditar Asistir). I hope that I can improve my ability to do these everyday things and that you guys can too so that we can be unmovable in our faith.

So this week has been a little loco also. Yeah we felt a couple of rumblings on Friday. Those were more strong than usual. We were in the middle of studies when the house starts rumblin and jumblin again. It wasn´t nearly as bad as the first one but still quite exciting. Yeah we went to the mission home for Fase 3 which is basically the missionaries in their third transfer. The pizza hut was way different than usually but still pretty good. All the food is different here. And sorry your account was hijacked mom, hopefully President didn´t read that one haha. Well thanks for the emails and pictures and support. Les amo familia,

Elder Webb