September 30, 2013
Dear Family.
How is everybody, Lauren with driving, dad with politics, and mom
with her homemaking projects?
Everyone asks me what I want to study when I get home and I tell them
that I would like to either be a sports therapist or go into politics. It’s
funny to see the response because everyone thinks that politicians just rob
money from the people. They tell me to stick to being a sports therapist. But we’ll
see what happens.
This week we had a lot of meetings with ward leaders. There just
never seems like there is enough time as a missionary to do all of the things
they ask us. Right now we are working as the Elders quorum counselors. That
keeps us busy. I have gained a
great testimony of working with leaders., and understanding that our priesthood
leaders have been given priesthood keys to lead and to give counsel.
We had a priesthood activity last Saturday where we invited all of
the men with the higher priesthood. We shared a lesson about being prepared for
conference and for helping others enjoy conference. We shared the Sept message from
Elder Anderson in the Ensign. He shared a story about a member trying to share
the gospel with a neighbor and they brought up the theme of general conference.
The neighbor asked the member why they have conference, the member responded
because that is when we have the chance to hear from our living latter day
prophets. The neighbor then asked, ¨well what did they say to you last
conference? The man froze in shame,
as he could not recall. After his encounter with his neighbor he vowed to
listen to what the living prophets had to say the next conference.
We then gave out paper to everyone and to write down 2 questions for
conference. We felt that this was one of the most important things that we
could have shared is to help the members receive their own revelation. Everyone
told us that we did a very nice job with the whole presentation. The Elders quorum
president said he was surprised by how well we did. We definitely gained his
confidence. After that we ate.
The next day we had a nice church service. The bishop talked about rescuing.
He shared my favorite verses from the Book of Mormon, Alma 26. He then shared
my favorite scripture verse 12 which talks about through the strength of the Lord
we can do all things. I shared with everyone that this was my favorite
scripture before the mission, and that my testimony had been confirmed about
this scripture after 2 years. It was pretty amazing.
My package arrived! It was a pretty awesome package. I’m very grateful!
Thanks so much.
I’ll try to bring home some candy for Lauren.
Thanks Family for everything. I’ll see you next week. Next week are
changes so I’ll be writing on Tuesday.
Love Elder Webster