These next 2 months I have many friends heading out on
missions, which makes me super excited! SO I wanted to share my testimony on
missionary work.
This week we had transfers and I got my second companion in
the field. She is just amazing! Her
name is Sister Flynn and she is from Manchester, England. She has been in Macau for the past 5 months. I have been so blessed with companions.
Before my mission if you asked me what I was most excited for, I would say a
companion, and I still hold true to that. Having a companion out here makes
everything 100 times better. They become your best friend, they become a
sister, and they become the one person you know you can trust, confide in and
be yourself with. It’s such a blessing!
Anyway as this new transfer has started I have been humbled
by how little I know. My Cantonese is coming along and my companion has only a
slightly wider vocabulary than me (she’s been out one transfers longer than
me). We are both still very new to the
field and very new to the work. But I have to testify that the gift of tongues
is real! We've had 2 lessons, we’ve been to 3 members houses, church, and
called tons of people since she got here with me and we have been so blessed to
have the ability to figure out what they’re saying and be able to communicate with
them! It’s something else! God is so
real.
So I just hit my 5 month mark, and I know that’s not too far
in, but I do feel like I've been out way longer. As I’ve talked about before, I
often go back to the parable of the current bush. The gardener cuts it way back, almost to a
little stump! This allows it to grow the
way the gardener needs it too. My second
day in the MTC, God cut off a big portion of my own current bush. I cried for a really long time and I
struggled through the many weeks that passed. The 'wind' blew fiercely and it was
almost too much to bare. I prayed and prayed, not to go home or anything like
that, but I prayed that He would make it easier. Over these past 5 months I
have been beaten down by Satan, but then through the grace of God I’ve gotten
stronger. I feel like now my roots are stronger than they've ever been and I’m
growing into what the Lord needs me to be!
I can feel my ability to hold my ground through the winds of Satan and the rigors of missionary life strengthening me and it’s miraculous!
This has been the hardest 5 months of my life but also the
best. I wouldn’t trade this time for
the world! I love missionary work and I love being a missionary. I know God is
real. I know that He has a plan for each one of us and he loves us all.
Gordon B.
Hinckley says: “Now, my brethren and sisters, the time has come for us to
stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater
comprehension and understanding of the grand millennial mission of this, The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is a season to be
strong. My great plea is that we all try a little harder to
live up to the stature of divinity that is within us. We can do better than we
are doing. We can be better than we are. If we would hold before us that image
constantly of divine inheritance, of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood
of man as realities, we would be a little more tolerant, a little more kindly,
a little more outreaching to lift and help and sustain those among us. We would
be less prone to stoop to those things which clearly are unbecoming [of]
us."
I hope these wise words from Pres. Hinckley motivate all of
us to work harder and be better than ever before!
I love you all!
Happy Fathers day!!
Love Sister Webb
Sister Gomez getting ready to leave |
My new companion, Sister Flynn |
My package arrived from Mom!! |
She sent me all EL FUDGE!! And lots of other surprises!! |
We had a fishing game in English class this week |
We are still trying to figure out what was going on in the sky this evening?? |
One of our investigators and a beautiful script she has written |
One of the member families brought us dinner . . . McDonald's . . . AND IT WAS SUNDAY! hahahaha |
Still laughing about this! |
Antoher awesome investigator |
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