Monday, October 11, 2010

Dearest family,

Thanks for the email dad and those pictures mom. Wow I would love to have seen that storm. Thats pretty sweet. Sounds like things have been pretty crazy up there. Those mission opportunities that you've had dad are pretty great. I'm sure he'll start coming to church if when you invite him. Oh and about the ground breaking, thats pretty neat. I would like to be there. Elder Costa actually talked to our mission here about a month and a half ago. He speaks spanish really well but you can tell he has a brazillian accent. He is a great 70 and gave a really good talk. That will be a neat experience.

Well once again we've had a pretty good week. We had a couple of rough days but in the end we got blessed a lot. Eduardo didn't get baptized yesterday. He was progressing really well and making some changes but he hasn't been able to live certain commandments. He is finally starting to realize the importance of these changes he needs to make and should be getting baptized in the end of October or November. Hopefully I'm here to see his baptism. His whole family is active now and his dad went and bought scriptures for the whole family and bought them suits to come to church looking nice instead of like gangsters haha. But they're an amazing family. A cool experience, randomely a family showed up to church that we didn't really recognize. We had said hi to this lady but she never told us she was a member when we asked her like a month ago. But she showed up with her husband and 9-year-old kid. The parents are members and want to return to the church and we went over to their house after church and taught their kid who is going to get baptized Oct 31. That was a real blessing. We're praying for the baptism of Macarena this weekend. She was so excited for her baptism 2 weeks ago but hasn't been reading much or praying so we know that it will be a important step for her but she wants to get baptized so we're going to do everything possible. We're working well with the members and I know its the key to this work. The members here are amazing and are willing to help especially if we invite them.

I love this work. I just realized that well, a year from today I'll be stepping off that plane. It will be a day of mixed feelings. I love every part of this wonderful work, every experience, good or bad. I'm starting to realize how much I've changed in a year and its quite a bit. The gospel is a lifelong process and wow in the mission you can see its affects so much more. Thanks for everything and helping me be able to be here. I love you guys heaps. Dejen que la virtud engalane sus pensamientos incesantemente... y el espíritu será su cetro de rectitud y les fluirá constantemente. Les amo, chao,

Elder Webb