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