Visit From The Prophet!!

We had the most incredible opportunity to see the Prophet this week! It was the most sacred feeling to be in his presence. He truly is called from God, and has the most sincere love for all of God’s children. President Nelson and Elder Holland both came and they talked about being able to keep the “temple inside” us. Often times we get too caught up in the world and we forget that we can sanctify ourselves and put the temple in us. If we can put the temple in us and learn how to turn our hard times "prisons" into a blessing "temple" we are promised blessing that will last for eternity.

Something that really stuck out to me this week is that we are often closer to God when we are experiencing adversity. Sister Sam and I were talking about how sometimes on the mission you worry that you are not doing your best to be close to God. Sometimes we pray and pray that we can know what we need to do to be closer to God and we feel like we don't get an answer. But something I have learned over and over on the mission is how real God is in every minute of every day in a missionary’s life.  It seems as though our every movement matters so much to him, to the point that sometimes we don't think He's there because He's closer than He's ever been before and perhaps we are just used to it. I don't know if any of this is making sense, but what I'm trying to get at is that in any struggle, in any hard time, whenever you think God has abandoned you, or you don't feel close to him, and you just feel hopeless, that’s when he is there the most. He has felt the way you feel. He has been below that pain and suffering that is causing you to question His existence. During your difficult times He is closer than he's ever been before. So when you struggle, or question him, turn to Him, and you will realize He is standing shoulder to shoulder with you, if not carrying you.

I just want to testify of a few things real quick. One . . . the gift of tongues. I was on the bus coming home from seeing President Nelson and got talking to the girl across from me about how incredible it is was that we just had a living prophet come to visit Hong Kong. I expressed the love that God has for her, then realized that the whole section of the bus was listening.  I pulled them all in and asked one by one if they knew that Christ loved them.  Suddenly this overwhelming feeling of love just flooded me for these people. With that, I just poured out that love by teaching them parts of the restoration. I was saying words with grammar structures I had had never used before, and saying things in ways that I would not have thought of on my own. There was a power that was undeniable and the people felt it. As President Nelson says, "Missionaries are the hope of this troubled world, listen to them!" He says it because we do NOT speak out of our own knowledge.  Instead we speak the word of God, we speak for Him, and the Holy Ghost will carry it unto the hearts of the people. We speak with power, we speak with the authority that we have been given, and we speak of love. We all need to step up our game and spread God’s gospel fearlessly. "God did not give us the spirit of fear, but of POWER and of a sound mind.” We are the trumpet in this fallen world, we are the hope! We can all be a missionary! Friends and family, minister fearlessly, and God will be on your right and on your left, and his angles will bear you up!

I love this Gospel, I love being a missionary!  It is a powerful calling and it is full of priesthood authority, hope, power and love.

Love you all!

Love, Sister Webb

With Pres. Nelson's visit, there has been wonderful press coverage.  Here is the link to his visit and a clip of an article written about missionary work in HK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC8q1Pb7q7k&app=desktop

Since the creation of the Hong Kong Mission in 1949, “missionaries have been actively teaching the gospel to the people of Hong Kong for 69 years,” said Elder Zeno Chow, an Area Seventy in Hong Kong. “We now have six stakes and two districts in the Hong Kong/Macau region with over 26,000 members.”

Temple Day!

Sister Sam & Me

Keep His Name On Your Lips

One of the greatest things about being a missionary is that our presence alone, testifies of our Lord Jesus Christ. Someone recently told me that just by being around us and realizing the commission we carry, causes them to feel of Christ’s reality and have a desire to change their lives. But how much better if we open our mouth and testify of Christ right then and there!? We are encouraged as members of this church to keep Christ on our lips. If you are at a loss of things to say, testify of Christ! (haha, I can just see myself on a date after the mission, running out of things to say, and I just start rattling off the restoration or testifying of Christ... chaahm.. its gonna happen just watch. #cries.)

Christ on your lips miracle: We did a Zone find this week in Po Lam and had some incredible miracles! We made it our goal to try and contact boys ages 14-20. I literally felt like I had a radar for teenage boys!  I would see one from so far away and find a way to cross paths and it was just amazing the miracles we saw!  So many of them were ready for direction in their lives! But thats not even the end! We got on the bus to go home and I still had that divine radar... So we go to the top of the bus and these teenage boys get on at the next stop.  They came up to the top floor of the bus and with my crazy teenage boy radar I freaked out and started to follow them to the back of the bus.  One of the Elders I was with stopped me and said this was a little creepy! Like what?! So then the Elders went off on this rant about how it was so much harder for Elders to find people because everyone is scared of how formal they look. NOT TRUE!! So I was getting fired up and told him to go to the back of the bus or else I would!  He did and ended up giving the kid a Book of Mormon and teaching him about the Restoration!  Then me and Sister Sam went down to the bottom of the bus because we didn't want to sit with the Elders anymore. We walked down and went to the back by a teenage boy. I sat down and asked him if he knew where Ko Saan Kek Cheung was because I needed to find my way home.  I told him I lived by a soccer court.  He turns and says, "Just get off with me, I know where you live."  He started laughing and I’ll admit, we were a little creeped out.  I asked him how he knew where we lived and he told us he lives right across the street from us and has seen us every day for years!  He has never talked to any of the missionaries though!  He is 23 and one of the most humble boys I have ever met. The next day was a Saturday, and we had invited him to church on Sunday, but apparently when I invited him I told him "see you tomorrow".  I didn’t mean to say that but I had implied that church was on Saturday . . . So he showed up to the church Saturday morning at 9am!  When we found this out, we just asked if he had time to meet and he said yes.  We met and he told us his whole life story and we taught him the Restoration. It was incredible! He then came again to church the next day!! SO this week Chris was our big miracle.

I LOVE this new idea of ministering! THIS IS EVERY MEMBER A MISSIONARY in ONE word! We are all ministers! Keep Christ on your lips! Testify of him at all times, in all things, in all places! Keep him at the front of your mind and let Him guide you and direct you as you minister to his lost and found sheep!

Love you all!  Sister Webb

Sis. Sam & I are having such a GREAT time serving together!! 

Some of our roomate missionaries:)

11 WEEKS!!!

This  is the only title I remember from any of Jessica’s emails she sent home . . . 11 WEEKS! Tribute to Jess! I remember when she sent that, I had ONE WEEK until I entered the MTC and I was thinking, "Heck, that day is never going to come! That’s ages away!!" and HERE WE ARE! What even happened!?

Anyway, I HAD A BABY!! She is older than me by one month, but she's still my baby! In the mission field when we train a new missionary, we call them our baby.  Then there is this family tree that happens and we become grandmas and even great grandma’s as we receive a companion from the previous “generation”.  It’s pretty cool how family works in the mission field!  Anyway . . . we have already had the best 4 days in the world! She is so diligent and full of so much enthusiasm for the work!  Her name is Sister Sam (Mariah Sam). She is a piano major at BYU, also pays violin, and she's just musically SOOO talented! I'm so blessed! ***Cool fact . . . Sister Sam knows my amazing piano teacher, Janae Williams, well!  I’m guessing she may be studying piano at BYU with her someday!!***

This week we had a cool experience. So I, personally, hate studying inside the house in the morning.  I always go outside with my companions to study. So I took Sister Sam out to study. My favorite place is Starbucks, but kids are very busy with testing right now, and they like to study there too, so if we find a seat we are very fortunate and it means that God has someone for us to meet. Unfortunately we didn't find a seat, so we went over to the McDonald’s across the street and sat down to study. We got to know some of the people around us as we studied but they all left.  Then this beautiful African woman came and sat down next to us. She was the sweetest thing in the world, and just thought it was amazing that we had more knowledge about the Savior, Jesus Christ. So the miracle about this one…First off its Sister Sam’s first day, so the fact that she got to teach a lesson in English is phenomenal!  Second, while we were doing personal and comp study, we were both studying about MIRACLES and how willing God is to pour them out on us. We just needed to have the attitude to expected miracles right and left, and God would provide miracle right and left!  Anyway, that was how her first day went, and you can only imagine it just got better from there on out! This week has just been so good and exactly what God needed for this area (:

Also general conference! WOW! Tracy couldn't stop laughing at how much I cried my way through general conference. I think every talk was for me! I cried through almost the whole 8 hours. I also made the Elders chocolate banana pancakes.  Then I went to go get Leo’s baptismal certificate signed by the Bishop.  He lives just around the corner.  I came back less than a minute later and all 30+ pancakes were GONE! AND only one companionship of the 16 of them said thank you! Like what!!? But it’s okay, I love the zone and me and Sister Sam are so blessed to be working with so many valiant young men who came ready to serve and ready to change. We had a zone find on Sister Sam’s first day.  I started them off with a pump up scripture and a joke and we went out finding for 2 hours. The power that surges through you when 20+ missionaries are out finding at the same time is so cool.  Miracles are bound to happen left and right! So good (:  This really is the Lords work.

In conference we were challenged by many church leaders and our beloved Prophet to develop a stronger relationship with the Holy Ghost. In my life He is a very special person. He fills me with energy and fills me with courage to do some crazy things, "What’s bold today, won't be bold tomorrow!" So take time for the next 6 months to learn about Him and come to know Him!  It’s through Him that we come to know our Savior.  Also, don't forget the important message to minister. Minister in the home, minister to your friends, minister to the people you run into at Walmart, Target, the gas station, minister to EVERYONE God puts in your path. We are all ministers the second we walk out that door. This is the Prophet’s call to us, MINISTER! And if this is the Prophet’s call, we may as well say it comes from the mouth of the Lord Himself.

Love you!!

Love Sister Webb

Sister Sam has arrived!

Jetlag . . . 

We got up at 4am and hiked Lion's Peak for P-day . . . IT WAS AWESOME!

I'm really going to misst his beautiful place!!

Leo's Baptisma and Divine Compassion

We went to a Sacrament Meeting this week in Wan Chai with the YSA’s after Leo's baptism this week!  OH . . .LEO WAS BAPTIZED . . . IN THE OCEAN . . . DURING A BIG YSA GATHERING . . . IT WAS INCREDIBLE!  Anyway, President Lam gave some remarks to these incredible YSA’s who came from Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan and Malaysia.  They all came to join in on a  huge YSA activity that was put together this weekend. Something he said that really stuck out to me was the fact the divine compassion is never absent. This is true in every aspect of our lives. even in times we don't feel worthy of the blessings and love that the Lord is just waiting to pour out on us, or feel like no one understands, or feel alone, useless, or just stuck in some kind of rut . . . we will ALWAYS have the Lord’s divine compassion to lean on. He will always understand us perfectly, and will always be there to hold us help us. This has been especially evident to me this week.

First off I want to start by sharing my sincere testimony that I know without a shadow of a doubt that Joseph Smith is a true prophet, called of God, to humbly restore His church here on earth. He was prepared from a young age and the Lord continued to test him until his last breath. I came across a scripture in Isaiah that says, “The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable." When I read this I think of Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith. The more righteousness they brought forth and the more righteous they were, the more magnified the Law of God was. This proved to be Joseph Smith’s life.  Joseph Smith suffered so much for this Church. As we watched the restoration movie this week with Tracy, a testimony grew in her heart of the truthfulness and the reality of this living church. She expressed how amazed she is by the courage and zeal that Joseph had.  Then in tears we all bore testimony of living prophets and the reality of this Church.

We met with a boy named Reno this week from Indonesia. He had such a natural passion and love of the things we taught him. He started pulling out bible passages that testified of us missionaries and testified of God’s gospel being spread about to all nations, kindred, tongue and people. We explained to him the meaning of trumpets sounding and voices of thunder spreading through the earth, and that he is literally in the middle of the storm of thunder and was blessed to have crossed paths with a sounding trumpet (us missionaries.) Then he pauses and says, "This all makes sense." There was an undeniable witness that God's true Gospel is being spread to every nation, kindred, tongue and people . . . and I’m participating in CHINA!! The thunder is getting louder and more and more trumpets are being called to enter the hand of the Lord in His field of labor.  All of you youth preparing to serve missions . . . "You are worthy of his hire!" (D&C 31) Be an instrument in His hands, help God bring to pass the things foretold of this day and age! Don't hold back from this amazing opportunity to turn your life over to God and spread his gospel. People are ready to hear the noise from your trumpet. YOUR trumpet! So get out there and get to work!!

As Leo got baptized this week it has been just phenomenal to see this 19 year old boy turn his life around and really turn to the Lord and repent and understand the truthfulness that is in this Church. He was pulled in at first by the good feeling the church has, and now he is changing his life to be a better person!

Anyway, I’m training a new Sister starting tomorrow! The YSA and my ward yesterday were teasing me about my pregnancy (my new companion fresh out of the MTC), and are so excited for my baby to be born. This world is ready for your desire to serve, so if you’re contemplating a mission, I can promise that great miracles and blessings await you!  The world and the Lord need us, so get out there!!

Love you!!

Love Sister Webb

Dinner with Leo and the missionaries before Leo's baptism

An incredible Beach Baptixm!!

Tracy is a friend of Leo's and we love her so much!  She came to the baptism with us and she is getting baptized next month!!

This was my last week with Sister Chan, so we had to say goodbye to all of her amazing friends and members . . . 

Sorry . . . a few more beach baptism pics:)