It's the greatest time of the year.....and it's HERE!

Okay so today was like the MOST NEEDED PDAY of my mission! Holy cow! So…here’s what’s been up since last Monday.


So the highlight of last week was mission conference! So…half of the mission gets together at a time so last week the Toledo, Akron & Cleveland zones met plus a few of the Kirtland sisters. (We always have adjustments because the VC has to be covered all the time.)

So this is how it started off…we took the sacrament in the Kirtland Temple. I thought that was a once in a lifetime experience but I just had it TWICE! My favorite speaker at the conference was the Akron stake president, President Talley. I liked his talk the best because it went along with my theme for my 3rd and 4th transfers, which is Ezekial 36:26. It says, “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.” I’ve really been praying for that new heart…for a heart that loves like Christ and for a heart that wants to do everything God wants it to! I want the natural Sister Webb to die & that new Sister Webb to be born!

So back to President Talley’s talk. It was about the brother of Jared (in Ether) when he made stones and took the stones to the Lord and asked Him to touch them so that their barges might have light in them. He said that we may not have rocks but we each have a stony, hard place in our hearts that we have to offer to the Lord so that He will touch it and enlighten it. It just really spoke to me. I’m diligently striving to get to where I really WANT to go tracting even though it’s 20 degrees outside and with the wind chill it’s like DEATH! It will come, I know it will as I keep working at it.

After that they split us into 4 groups: the senior couples & the Butterfields, the Akron zone, the Cleveland zone, and the Toledo zone + Kirtland sisters. Each group went into one of the 4 choir lofts in the Temple and we each had the opportunity to bear our testimonies in the Temple. It was really special. I cried a lot during mine because apparently that is what I do now. But I truly am so grateful for a loving, patient, forgiving Heavenly Father who doesn’t strike me down when I’m flat out LAZY and don’t get out of the car at the gas station to go help someone and talk to them because I’m cold. (I did that last Monday night. I’m not proud & I was feeling particularly guilty about it.) He’s so patient and so persistent because HE LOVES ME and He wants me to push myself and to stretch and grow.


Me & my buddy Elder Carter! He was the ZL of the Kirtland zone for a transfer & a half and then on his last transfer in the field they sent him out to the middle of nowhere in TOLEDO. Lame. But it's okay because we'll be friends post-mish.


Then, we headed over to the stake center where we had lunch & then President talked to us some more. Then, we got Christmas letters from home! That was cool and unexpected. Overall, it was an incredible conference. It just reminded me why I came out here, who I am as a representative of the Lord Jesus Christ and the power that comes along with that authority. In short, IT PUMPED ME UP!

I was grateful that we went to the conference that we did. It just so happened to be on December 7. December 7, 2011 will be the last day of my last transfer in the OCM. WEIRD! I have less than a year left at this point. So mission conference was a point of rededication for me. I re-promised Heavenly Father that I would give everything that I have- ALL of my heart, ALL of my might, ALL of my strength, & ALL of my mind. Every day from here on out is the last one of those that I have in Ohio. I can’t waste that precious time!

Other than that, we had a pretty good week. We switched with the Chardon sisters so that we were at sites on Friday and in our area on Saturday. We set a baptismal date of January 21st with Chris this week. She’s a nice lady. She lives in a group home…she’s a bit slower but she’s accountable. She knows Sister Ellison from the ward and she came to the ward party last Saturday and church this Sunday!!!

Woohoo! Man’tima came to church with Tyrone on Sunday too! It was a happy day! We’re going to have to move her baptismal date because she flamed our appointment on Saturday to teach her the Word of Wisdom. She has to be smoke & alcohol free for 3 weeks before her baptism…so yep, that’s a problem. We were going to teach it to her after church on Sunday but she was so distracted by the kids and she was tired and there was just no way we could do it. UGHHH!

We found a few new potential investigators this week so that’s sweet! Jason is the son of the man who manages Chris’ group home. He’d never heard of our church before. We said let us come teach you. He said sounds good. Awesome. Then, we contacted this referral Mary. She ordered a Joy to the World dvd and she is this adorable African American lady who’s older and sweet as pie. Holy cow! She was like “I don’t know people were going to bring it to me! Come in!! And she let us in and when we left she’s like “I love you! I love you!” and gave each of us big hugs. I had never felt the Spirit as strongly in a non-members home as I did in hers. It was crazy. We are excited to go back and meet with her!

And then on Saturday we stopped at WalMart on our lunch hour and I started talking to the lady behind us because she had 4 tubs of baking cocoa powder and I wanted to know what she was making. So Sally started chatting and telling us about her family and her vacation home that she has in the Philippines (where she’s originally from) and how basically all of her family in the Philippines is Mormon. So we have a part member family (who’s other members are halfway around the world but who cares?) and she’s Catholic but “open-minded”. EXCELLENT!

Oh, also I had another first this week. I shoveled a driveway for the first time in my life. HOLY COW IT IS HARD WORK! My body ached sooooo badly the next day. It was ridiculous but I was glad to be able to help her out.

Oh…and then, the reason why I’m having p-day on Wednesday is that we switched sites days with Solon because Sister Houston had a doctor’s appointment out in Norwalk (which is over on the other side of Cleveland…it’s a full pros area) and so they needed to have p-day Monday. I have decided that apparently Sister Law & I are supposed to learn flexibility. Haha

I am getting so excited for Christmas!!! I get to talk to you next week! HOORAY!!! On Christmas Eve, all the Kirtland missionaries have a dinner and then everyone sleeps over in the homes or in Lyndhurst’s (my) apartment and then we have brunch at the Butterfield’s the next morning. Yay! It should be way fun.

I am very much looking forward to next week. I love you all so much and am so thankful for you and your love and support. YOU’RE MY ROCKS!

Love,
Sister Webb