October 24, 2016

I can explain, but I have to be quick, so it's transfer
weekend and the Elders in Bedford have to help with it all and it's
always crazy, so we have to go help with the new missionaries that are
coming in right now and we are going to take them proselyting straight
from the airport soooooooo I thought I would have more email time but
it is coming to an end because I got that news so I promise I'll give
you a good update!

PS my eyes are doing ok now, I just don't sleep with my contacts in.
Also thanks for sending the package! Haven't gotten it yet but thanks
for when it comes! Also I bought a suit today. Brand new for 60 bucks,
just need to tailor the pants so maybe another 15 or 20 but pretty
good deal! 

Love you fam! Have a good week!

Elder Webb

October 17, 2016

Man this week was a crazy week! We were able to get in with A--
again luckily, and we had some really cool lessons. She's really a
smart lady and knows the Bible very well. We talked a lot about the
Book of Mormon and she had a lot of questions but we were able to
answer all of them and clear up her confusion soooo😅 ya.

We found a lot of success this week finding. We found a ton of
potentials but now it's just working on capitalizing to make them
investigators. Sooo we just need to continue what we are doing and
hopefully it will work out! It's always fun finding in New England
haha--people here are just a different breed, I swear. So funny. Also
this week we had a lot of assistance to our zone for certain things.
There is one missionary that just came in a week ago, like 2 weeks
before the transfer was over and he started having a lot of pain and
ended up with a pretty big infection.  So, like 2 days into the mission!
We have gone up and down from their area a lot this week ha I'm so
sick of being in cars. And my missionary music starts to really get
annoying after hearing it like 10 times all the way through! On those
drives though we have really been able to see the cool fall leaves.
It's crazy here in New England! Like sometimes I take it for granted
since I'm in it all the time but it's amazing! I'm sad it's my last
fall here! Maybe I'll come visit Lindsey and Dallin next fall cause I'll miss 
it, that's for sure.

Sorry for the short and boring email! I will have more to update you
on next week I promise! I have some pictures though. 

Oh, p.s. I went golfing today. It was amazing. I played better than I thought
I would, but I have realized how much I've lost, though. I'll get it back next
summer though. Hopefully lolol

October 10, 2016

Hey everybody!

This week was a crazy week. First off, I'm feeling worse than I was last week. I don't know what it is! I usually never am sick, but I guess this Fall in New England is coming with a vengeance on me. So during the day I'm usually good but then when the evening hits I'm coughing up a lung and a half and am really congested but I'm taking medicine for it, so hopefully it will get better. But I realized that working when you feel awful is such a dumb thing to do because it usually just makes it worse. That happened to me this week, I went out in a rainstorm and worked and ended up worse than before and was down after that so if any missionaries out there are reading this, don't be dumb! Haha it was a big mistake, but it's ok because we still saw a lot of miracles this week. 

We had a referral that came in and he requested a bible, so we went over and chatted with him. He's a construction worker.  We taught the restoration and he accepted a baptismal invite! It was kind of funny, when it was asked, he said it in a voice that was like "duh, of course" and we are meeting with him in a couple days again for another appointment. 

So, Elder Holt and I, about 2 weeks ago, went to go contact a potential investigator and that lady didn't live there anymore, but the lady that does live there said we could come back. She was a little hesitant so we waited a few more days and went back again and she wasn't there. So on Thursday or Friday all of our back-ups fell through, and we were just walking around talking to people and we had a prompting to go see that lady again. It was around 8 o'clock, so kinda late, and she let us in.  They are a family of 6--we taught the restoration and it was really cool! They are a crazy family, it reminded me of Utah ha they are a young family, and also because we don't see many families at all in the city! It was a tender mercy that's for sure. 

Afterwards we walked around and talked with people until one guy flew by us on a bike and we waved and he slammed on his brakes. I honestly thought it was about to go down because he came up to us kind of aggressively. But right when he got up to us he's like, "Missionaries, I am very familiar with your church. How are you guys tonight?" And we were a little shocked, but we chatted with him for a while and it turned out he grew up Mormon and joined the army and drifted away, but he felt a prompting to stop and talk to us. We chatted with him about coming back to church and meeting with us and he said he'd love to! It was way cool. 

We found quite a few potentials this week, as well, but none of them have panned out yet but that's ok--the ones we usually don't expect to work out usually work out. I just need more faith I guess! Lol 

I got to go on exchange with a new missionary this week and holy cow--he's such a greenie. It blew my mind to think I'm this far into my mission, I have about 10 months left! It seems like a lot of time but it's really not! It goes by so fast. I love being a missionary, it will be hard coming back to a world where everything I do every day won't have as meaningful of a purpose.  So it was an experience that really helped me appreciate what I'm doing right now. Love you guys! Have a good week! 

October 3, 2016

Hey everybody!

Well this week was an interesting week. We didn't do too much proselyting because of exchanges, zone meeting, and I was HARD core sick the past few days. It has sucked but I'm starting to get over it a little. But the little time we got to proselyte we were able to meet with our new investigator, A--. A-- is pretty cool, a few weeks ago we saw her while we were walking and she was loading up some furniture into a truck and we asked if we could help and then we started to chat a little. She asked us if we could meet with her and so we did last week and then twice this week and she accepted a baptismal invite. It was pretty cool! She wasn't able to come to conference or anything this weekend but we are meeting with her soon. 

It was super random, we were walking the streets at around 8 the other night, and ran into this lady. She was a little startled because she was playing Pokémon go and her face was glued to her phone, and she called us "Elders".........no one EVER calls us Elders. So I stopped directly in my tracks and said "WHAAAAT? How do you know to call us that?" And she said she grew up in Utah and went to Bingham high school...... and she was so pumped that we knew where that was. We talked with her for a minute and answered some of her questions about the church and are going to give her a call today. 

I don't know what it is but the streets of Manchester have become infested with skunks. When we don't have a lesson in the evening, we walk around to talk to people and for some reason lately we have been running into skunks every night. 

Love you all! General Conference was amazing. If you missed some of it, go and watch it or go and read the talks. They all were incredible! It was sad to see President Monson the way he was, but it testified to me that he was a true prophet, and I honestly couldn't tell you why because his talk was so short and wasn't mind blowing, but I just got that feeling over and over again.

Love you, bye!

Photos from the Paulson family in Cam's mission. 

Beautiful!!

Sept. 26, 2016

Hey!

Sounds like a good week. Tell Grandma and Grandpa I said hi. Also, yes,
I know Elder Liljenquist. Well, I know who he is! I've never served
around him really but I've seen him around. 

This week was a good week. It was a tougher one, but it was good. We
have been finding about 4-5 hours a day and weren't really finding a
lot of success earlier in the week but we had a pretty cool
experience. We were looking through our potentials list on our area
book, aka 200 people, and started calling. We got to someone who went
online and requested a bible, but there was no record that he ever got
it, and he requested it back in March. So we called him and told him
we were the LDS missionaries and that we were just wondering if he had
gotten the bible, and he said no so we asked if we could come give it
to him and he said yeah. So later that evening we went and met with him
and he was way cool. He told us that when he requested the bible 7
months ago he was looking for the true church, but then when he never
got contacted he lost interest in looking again.  So that 7 month gap he
wasn't searching for a church or anything for that matter until the
weekend before we called him he started going to a local church. So he
said "it's crazy that you guys called when you did because I just
started going to church again, if you would have called me a week or
two ago I would have said no." We taught him the restoration, and
he accepted a baptismal invite. It was pretty cool to see! Crazy that
the missionaries didn't contact him, but it worked out! 

So this week we had Elder Bennett and Elder Defeaou from the Quorum of
the 70 come and visit our mission. It was a really cool experience.
Elder Bennett has some fire in him, let me tell you. And Elder Defeaou
is SO humble. It was way cool to hear from them! It made me pretty
pumped for general conference!

Love you fam, have a good week! PS fall is really kicking in. It's
crazy how fast the colors change here. The temperature dropped about
15 or 20 degrees this past week so it's been a cold one! Jk but it's
just weird to put a sweater on again. We have sweaters or coats on for
like 7 months strait. Haha but, hey, at least it's my last winter. 

Love you!

Elder Webbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

September 19, 2016

Hey, Fam!

This week was a good week. I got my new comp, his name is Elder Holt. So it's funny because we have been talking about being companions for like 6 transfers and it finally happened. Haha so it's been so fun. We have worked way hard to just hit the streets and find people, because our teaching pool is just lacking really hard right now, but we have found a lot of potentials and have a lesson with one tonight, so we are excited. Besides that there hasn't been a whole lot going on. We teach a lot of less actives, but we are working towards a lot more investigator lessons. 

Manchester is really not doing too well, the city is just so deep into drugs so a lot of the people we talk to are struggling, and don't really want to chat all that much but we have made some plans to find the elect and we are excited. My new companion doesn't have a bum ankle like my last so we can actually walk around a lot and talk to people #sograteful so it's been really good! But I wish I had more to update you on. 

We are promised a lot of blessings for always being obedient and serving with all our heart, might, mind and strength so we are hoping investigators will be the blessings we see haha it's been a fun week. I get along with my companion really well, and we work well together too. I know it will just take a little more patience and we will be blessed with people to teach and to help progress. 

Life is good! Love you all! Have a good week! 

Sept. 12, 2016

Hey fam!

So--crazy week. Probably the craziest week on my mission. Just kidding,
it easily was. So I literally don't even know where to start but I
don't have enough time to try to organize it so bear with me. So my
companion got emergency transferred. Long story short........long
story. So he is doing ok, he is in northern New Hampshire now and is
doing great. I'm still in Bedford and will be staying zone leader. And
my new companion is one of my best friends in the mission so I'm SO
pumped. Don't know what I did to deserve this, but I'm so excited.
He's a way hard worker, but knows how to make it fun too so it will be
a cool transfer or hopefully longer.

So, because of this emergency transfer, Beth and Emily weren't
baptized. They wanted Elder Iverson to do it, and since he left
immediately when he got the news, they cancelled. Well actually, they
postponed. They will still be baptized but on a later date. I think I
will still be here for it so I'm really excited to see them get
baptized. But yeah spreading the word that it would be cancelled was
crazy because it was only like 4 days before it was supposed to
happen. Soooooooooooooooooo yaaaaaaa. Trust me, I've had to explain
this whole situation to EVERYONE.

So.....then after all that went down, I went on exchange with the
assistants. So the assistants are like my best friends. They have
served around me a lot, so we are really close, so going on exchange
with them was so fun but insane, because it's transfer week. Since
I'm zone leader I don't usually know transfers, or help with them
obviously, but this time I did all the above. Transfer calls were
Saturday but I did all the preparation and even participated in a
little of the transfers, so it was way cool. 

But making travel plans,and transfer calls etc, IS AWFUL. We were at 
the office until 12 or 1every night and then we still had to get up at 
6:30 or earlier. I'm running on straight fast food and Dr Pepper right now. 
Mom, I bet you're proud. And, Todd Whiting, sorry but my blood pressure is
probably way too high right now, too. I bet you're proud as well. But
yeah I'm still on exchange until tomorrow--I haven't had like any P
day, and it's already gonna end early too because we have to go get
new missionaries at the airport. And one thing we are doing, too, which
is pretty cool is all of the new missionaries are going with the "more
experienced" missionaries, and go street contacting on Main Street in
Manchester. It will be way fun! Pretty crazy. They don't know what
they are in for. Manchester is crazy, but it will be good for them!

Well that was my week, I didn't really get to proselyte in my area
that much this week, so yeah pretty much nothing happened there, but
wow, I've had a ton of fun. Probably because of my
lack of sleep, it's made me less accountable so I just laugh at a lot
more things. I hope I don't have another week like it again. My
companion had to go help a missionary out that had surgery. In case
you were wondering.  Kinda crazy, but things happen. 

Love you fam, have a good week. Be grateful you have
sleep.

Love you, bye