happy februray (almost!)

Hey hey heyyyyyyy! It’s been another good week in the O-h-i-o. Man, weeks go by so stinkin’ fast on a mission! It’s sick…. Sister Mayer has already been here for a month. It blows my mind! Things need to just SLOW back down. Do you know what else is weird? I’ll tell you- it’s weird how fast a year goes by. I was flipping through my old journal last night and a year ago, I had started filling out my mission papers already. And now I’m a missionary. I feel like time is just slipping away. It’s crazy.

I’m trying to think of what all has happened this week. We saw Joyce! She has been on my mind SOOOO much lately. We went in for a bit on Tuesday and saw her and talked with her about the baptism. She thought it was interesting that there were so many lay-people involved but she thought it was really nice. Someone ended up coming into the store and we couldn’t talk about everything that we would have liked to so we went back on Friday and saw her. She’d just gotten a huge shipment of fabric in so we helped out with that and then….SHE INVITED HERSELF TO CHURCH! Yayyyyyyy for God! Hooray hurrah!

A couple of the YW in the ward invited us to join with them in doing a musical number for sacrament meeting in a couple weeks so we were practicing for that up until like 12:25. We headed in to sacrament meeting then and I about fell over when I saw the back of Joyce Ely’s head sitting on a pew in the chapel!!!!!! She really liked church and she loved the Gospel Principles book as well! Hahaha I love that. She even wants to take us out to eat on a Monday night with Sarah!

When I told her that there’s a chance that I could be leaving in the next 2 weeks, she just made this face and was like “Do you see this face? That is not okay!” She calls me her daughter because we have the same type of crazy curly hair. I LOVE HER!!!!!!!! She got a plate for the store that says, “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” Well, I love her greatly so it will be a miracle when I stay for another transfer and when she gets baptized! Seriously!



Webb & Sister Webb! (Note from Mom:  She never explained this
but she has Webb ancestors who were in Kirtland and this
must be one of them.)

 On Thursday, we had a meeting for new missionaries and their trainers at the mission office. It was really, really good! I got to see Sister Golightly and Sister Everson (who are both out full pros) because they are with new missionaries so that was fun. And, we got a new car! They took ours to fix the dented front. I’m excited because we have another meeting this Thursday in Cleveland. I am a fan of uplifting, enlightening training meetings. :)

Man’tima and Reggie came to church again. Reggie was like “this is our church!” They love it. Now we’ve just got to get them over those dang addictions. We are working on it. Today is Man’tima’s 33rd birthday. We’ve having a party/lesson at the Howerton’s tonight so that she doesn’t go out and do something stupid. Her quad finally came in this week and she LOVES it! She loves marking it and being able to personalize it. It’s cool.

Today we had a companionship cook-off/ costume contest. Sister Mayer & I were cowgirls and we made a LEGIT Texas sheet cake. See attached picture for proof. We dominate!


Texas, Our Texas- All hail the mighty state :)

Something that has been on my mind this week is family prayer. We’ve been talking about it as a mission. In 3 Nephi 18:21, Christ commands us to pray in our families. It’s something that helps us to remember our purpose here on this earth, that helps us to keep an eternal perspective and that forms eternal bonds between our loved ones and us. I want to challenge anyone who reads this to have family prayer every night. I promise you that as you do, the Spirit will be able to dwell more abundantly in your home, and you will receive revelation on what your individual family members need and how you can meet those needs.

We sang as song this week that I hadn’t really ever paid attention to before now. It’s hymn 266, The Time is Far Spent. I love, love, LOVE the last verse:

“Be fixed in your purpose; for Satan will try you.
The weight of your calling he perfectly knows.
The path may be thorny but Jesus is nigh you.
His arm is sufficient though demons oppose.”

It is incredibly applicable to missionary work but I feel like it applies in everything. When we know our purpose, and we fulfill it, we are the most happy! It’s true.

I love you all. I pray for you. Do what Heavenly Father asks of you so that He can pour out blessings. He’s waiting….

Love you!

-Sister Webb

P.S. I almost forgot to tell you the most ridiculous news of the week. I got pulled over for the first time IN MY LIFE this week! Wooooooooo. I turned red when there was a sign that said: no turn on red. Awesome. Thankfully, the cop was nice about it and because I was from Dallas, he let me off the hook. He said not to forget that an Eagles fan let a Cowboys fan go. I was thinking, "Okay first of all I don't even care about football and secondly, I haven't watched tv for 7 month so that's totally irrelevant" but instead of showing that, I just gave him a pass-along card and went on my merry little way. The end!