The Holy Ghost Is My Best Friend!

First, Elder Gong visited with us for about 2 hours this week.  It was really amazing and I got to lead the music!  We are so blessed to have Latter-Day Apostles!

There is a lot on my mind right now as I’m writing this email, but the one thing that sticks out to me is a General Conference talk I read recently that taught me that the Spirit is “no stranger to rejection.”   As a missionary, we are rejected multiple times a day, especially if we are opening our mouth often and trying to talk to other people. (I think this builds characterJ) What helps me get through this is to try and understand how the Spirit must feel.  I personally felt and understood the Spirit in powerful ways this week.

We had a flash of inspiration to set up our church to look like the Plan of Salvation and invite people on the street to come in and walk through the path to their own salvation.  It was inspired and brought miracles into our missionary work in our area!  I know this was direct revelation from the Spirit and it worked beautifully!  The people that came through our tour were incredible and God picked them up off the street for us!  Three became new investigators and one picked a day to be baptized. Also, two of the people we took in got to the point of earth life.  Then suddenly the Spirit COMPLETELY flipped the lesson and turned it into EXACTLY what that person needed to hear.  There was no denying we were working very closely with the Spirit, and as a result had SO much success.

I really am also learning what it means to "work like it all depends on you, and pray like it all depends on God".   I know I have said that before. But this week we really learned the truth of that. It was in direct contrast to two weeks ago when Sister Sam & I got very distracted, didn't try our hardest,  and as a result had little to no success. This week we worked our tails off organizing this plan of salvation lay out and finding people to tour it.  It was also incredible to see the ward get involved!

Our ward threw the best party this week! They cleverly organized games and had prizes, but in the end it was all for the missionaries to get new investigators AND WE DID!  We received 20 REFERRALS  from it and ALOT of members got excited to start teaching their friends.

This week.. wow.. I can't even put into words the miracles God performed. I know it’s because we worked really hard and we worked with the Spirit on all of it. The Holy Ghost is real. For those of you who are questioning His existence, He feels your rejection and He is often ignored by us, but He is a real person!  He lives and you can have free communication with Him if you desire and believe He's real. I can testify that the three members of the Godhead are real. They are as real as me and you and they can have a relationship with each of us!  They want to help us.

We had an investigator this week look at the picture of Christ knocking on the outside of the door without the door knob.   He looked at the picture and said, “How do I let him in?"   We told him to PRAY!  Pray, pray, and pray harder AND THEN BELIEVE that He is actually on the other side.

I’m so grateful for this week and the help we received as missionaries for the Lord.  This church is true!  God lives and loves us.  The Holy Ghost is full of long suffering and love, and he will NEVER give up on you, so DO NOT give up on Him!

Love you all!

Love,  Sister Webb

Sister Sam and I enjoying a minute looking out at the beautiful coean in HK

Have I mentioned that HK has the BEST FOOD in the world?!!

Preparing for our Plan of Salvation activity:)

A Lesson I Needed To Learn

Do you ever feel bad about something...and then you feel guilty for feeling bad? And then you feel even worse for feeling guilty, which makes you feel even more guilty? That was me and Sister Sam this week!

I hate it when I'm so prideful that God has to force me to be humble and teach me the lessons He needs me to learn hard way. I was certainly taught the hard way this week. Sister Sam & I learned a lot about self control, turning to the Lord, learning not to worry too much, and learning what happens when you slack off.   We didn’t put our all into the work this week and it was a really discouraging week for both of us.  We had one night where we desperately wanted to feel the Spirit, so we went o the church and went into a quiet room to pray and read out of the scriptures. Ironically enough we opened up to the Savior’s Atonement and His crucifixion and resurrection. We read the whole thing and I it’s difficult to describe the peace that came over us in that little room at the church.  Then for the first time in a long time we prayed in English, and the Spirit brought us both to tears. We realized that we did not do our part fully this last week and realized that we let down the Lord as His missionaries and we felt so sorry!

But the chance to partake of the Sacrament on Sunday changed EVERYTHING for us!   There is power in the Atonement of Jesus Christ.  We knew we had been forgiven and we had a fresh start!  I’m so grateful for the mercy and love Heavenly Father pours out on us so generously.

Look forward to my email next week because we are ready for a week of miracles! DAAIH GAA!! Love you!

Love,  Sister Webb

Our Skype with Amanda on Mother's Day was great!

She started trying to call us from the Apple Store in HK, but that was unsuccessful so she had to walk 40 minutes to a gaming store where several other missionaries were gathered calling their mom's.  It was noisy and chaotic, but still so good to see her face and hear her voice!

Amazing food in HK!

Work Like It Depends On You, Pray Like It Depends On God

"Work like it depends on you, pray like it depends on God!" is a principle that I think I finally understand. It took me 15 months!

We had the most amazing  meeting yesterday in Church. It was phenomenal. It was a broadcast specifically to Hong Kong and Taiwan. They addressed the Hong Kong people specifically and the work being done and listed some names of people throughout Hong Kong who have been pioneers in the work.  They personalized it so much for these people, and it was incredible! They talked about ministering, reading the Book of Mormon and prayer. Elder Anderson had a simple outline to help us . . .  he said, "Pray, Listen, Write it down, and Act". This is where the 'work like it depends on you, pray like it depends on God' quote plays a role. Elder Anderson played these 4 steps out in hope that we would live these 4 steps and grow closer to Christ so we are better able to receive more blessing and revelation. I just want to testify that these 4 steps WORK!  If you’re missing something in your life right now, it’s right there.. "Pray, Listen, Write it down, ACT" which part are you missing. If you’re missing a part, get to work!

This week was so full of miracles! What an incredible week. Tracy was baptized!! I think I would come to Hong Kong and do it all over again just for her! I am so blessed to have her in my life! WOW!  We started off her baptism with a song and then our ward mission leader talked a bit. Then us missionaries and the youth stood up and sang, and it was so beautiful that Tracy started crying.  Then I started crying. So sweet! Then she was baptized.  While she was changing, they let me stand up and give a talk.   This was incredible because we had about 8 people who were either investigators or less active members.  I taught the Restoration and it was SO FUN!!

I’m running out of time, but this week was a highlight of my mission. We met so many amazing new people and started teaching new people!  The work is getting busier and busier, and we finally are getting the ward more involved in family history!  I have found more investigators in these last 3 weeks than I have in my whole mission!

Love you!!

Love, Sister Webb

Getting ready for Tracy's baptism and visiting with so many awesome investigators there

AN INCREDIBLE BAPTISM

Oh how I love these people!

Lunch with Shelly

"I Know In Whom I Have Trusted"

Hello Daaih Gaa!!

We have had so many tender mercies this week and I want to testify that it’s because we are learning to put our trust in the Lord. I had the most incredible experience this week with repentance. I had been thinking and thinking about the sacrament and the significance of it. We have been encouraged over and over to take the sacrament worthily and really focus during that time of our week to repent so we can become a more effective instrument in the hands of the Lord. I finally realized that I had too many things I was not repenting of and to many things that I was getting distracted by during the sacrament, my morning prayers, my evening prayers . . . just over all. I realized I was not fully repenting! Not a good feeling. So I changed a few things and did a few things differently and felt this incredible release of pressure and weight that I didn’t realize was hanging on my shoulders. Repentance is one of the most miraculous gifts and blessing Jesus Christ has given us. You really can feel truly repentant and I know we can be 100% forgiven and clean again.

This week we had some fun lessons. I just love teaching the Restoration to whoever will listen.  WE tried a group of boys playing soccer, went down to a basketball court and grabbed a few playing basketball, took the last 30 minutes of English class to teach them all the restoration, and the best is teaching it with the families of the ward. This is the special message this Church has! It is what binds us together. it is our Core. If this is true- and I testify it is- then we need to do something about it! we need to share it! We need to live it!

We had these two boys come to church this week. God put Kenny in my and Sister Sam’s path the first week Sister Sam was here.  In our broken Cantonese we shared with him this incredible message. We scheduled him again for this last Saturday, and he brought a friend! So Ayan and Kenny came to church yesterday. Cutest little 18 year olds I've ever seen! They loved the Restoration and committed to pray every day this next week just to give God a chance.   I’m so excited to see what happens!

I know Heavenly Father is a God miracles and mercy. I have miracle after miracle, from watching a random girl we found on the street help teach a group of boys the Restoration, to God changing the lives of those we meet. Go on a mission!  If you don’t think you have a reason to go on mission, go for God. This is His work and His glory and it is in Him who we have put our trust!

Love you all!!

Love, Sister Webb

Fun times with our zone

Bowlins with our young adult friends

LOVE Sis. Sam!

The FOOD in HK is so AMAZING!

Lunch with a wonderful group of Phillipino ladies