12 March 2014
Hello family!
You’ll excuse the lateness of my email (or you won’t.
Whatever). Things are often busy and inconsistent in the life of a missionary
(this missionary, at least), and one learns to roll with the punches. It’s been
a pretty good week! Nothing life-changing, but things are still happening! We’re
meeting with our investigators, getting new ones, working with less-actives and
doing good service! We’re encouraged to have weekly service in the community,
and when I came to Coronation there wasn’t any that had been established with
the previous companionship, so we didn’t really know where to start. Elder
Konecki and I still did some service, but it wasn’t ever weekly or scheduled.
Once I got with Elder Jolley we started finding some opportunities, so now we
have weekly service at the Food Bank and at the local Salvation Army store. It’s
nice to change things up every now and again.
The ward is wonderful. Our weekly attendance is probably
around 150. We’ve got great auxiliary leaders, especially our ward mission
leader. He’s got an excellent gospel fire burning within him. We’re blessed to
have him. The babies in the ward keep being born, and they’re only getting
cuter. It’s maddening. I get away with whatever I can, meaning I’ll plonk one
of them next to me on the couch and have them propped up by me. I’ve got such
creepy baby syndrome. Elder Jolley loves babies too, which is fun. Elder
Konecki didn’t really understand why I was so weird.
We’ve got five investigators currently (and I use that term
loosely). Toby, Karen, David and Kathy you’ve heard of (I hope). Now we’ve
got Rob on that list. Rob was referred to us by a member, so we called and he
said he’d love to meet. We went over to his apartment, but we ended up going over
to the United Church a few blocks away where they were holding a free community
dinner. Elder Jolley and I didn’t know what to expect, because oftentimes
people at other churches put their guard up, but that wasn’t the case at all.
Everyone there was so nice and welcoming, and a few of the volunteers had
Mormon relatives, “Oh, I’ve got a nephew in Spain!” and “I’ve got six Mormon
grandchildren from one Mormon son.” They do those dinners monthly, so now Elder
Jolley and I are going to go back as volunteers. There are good people
everywhere! We’re seeing how interested Rob really is, and I suppose only time
will tell. Out of those investigators, David and Toby are the only ones that
have come to church, and David is the only one that has stayed all three hours.
We’ve just got to get all of them to take the next step.
Sorry I haven’t mentioned poutine. It’s pretty good! I’ve
never purchased it for myself, and I think I’ve only had it from Wendy’s and
Dairy Queen. Just not my scene, I suppose.
I don’t think I’ve had any crazy potato chips. I have had
bacon, ketchup, baked potato and hot wing flavors, if those are crazy. Oh! How
could I forget? I’ve had Maple Moose. It’s like a sweeter barbecue.
Thanks for your love and support! I’ll “talk” to you all next
week!
Keep the faith,
Elder Webb
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