Editors’s note: Elder Eli’s and Elder Max’s parents recently accepted a call as part-time service missionaries, working with a Spanish branch in Kearns, UT. More on that shortly:
January 12, 2015
Hello readers!
Alright, it’s official, I’m
learning Spanish when I’m home. With only Max speaking it, my reasoning for not
learning was, “Meh, I’ll probably be so busy when I’m home. Besides, by the
time Max is home I’ll have moved out, so when he and Dad have their dumb
Spanish parties I’ll be long gone. Psh, who needs Spanish anyway? Not this guy.
Definitely not this guy...”
But now that Mom’s going
to be learning Spanish, it’s more along the lines of, “ALERT! ALERT! Def Con One!
Exclusion from dumb Spanish parties is not an option! I’ve got 14 months
between my arrival and Max’s homecoming. I can find time to fit in an hour of
language study every day, minimum. Food and sleep can be sacrificed! Friends?
Who needs ‘em? I’m sure BYU offers introductory Spanish courses. I can visit
Mom and Dad’s Spanish ward every now and again. I’ll have returned missionary
friends who spoke Spanish that I can practice on. 14 months, 14 months. Failure
is not an option!” Brace yourselves, world.
For the time being,
however, that is not my reality. Here and now I’m still in the tundra. We’ve
had some reasonable cold these last few weeks, but apparently starting tomorrow
the temperature is going to be above zero for the rest of the week! It’s a
miracle! (By the way, above zero degrees Celsius is delightful after you’ve had
around -30 for the past little while.)
Congrats to Mom and Dad on
your mission call! That is so cool. Our entire family is on a mission! It’s
going to bless all of us in so many ways. I am so jealous that 75% of my family
gets to be around chunky little niños. There are very few things cuter than
children speaking a different language. A brother and sister were behind me
last week when I emailed. The brother must have been 2 or 3, and the sister was
probably 4 or 5. Forgive my ignorance, but they were speaking Chinese or Korean
or Vietnamese. I want to say Chinese because I’ve mostly heard that and I’d say
it sounded like it, but I don’t want to be wrong. Regardless — adorable.
The work slowed down
considerably during the Christmas season, but now things are starting to pick
up again. We’ve got appointments scheduled this week with Scott and Matt, and
hopefully after those we’ll be able to meet with them more consistently!
Jessica is still not committing to a time, but we’ve been in touch with here
and we’re still on good terms. It’s been great to be able to get a hold of
people over Facebook who were previously pretty hard to reach. We get on
Facebook every day now. Our tasks include (but are not limited to): teaching
investigators and less-actives, posting inspirational goodness, getting
connected to new investigators through members, keeping in touch with contacts
from previous areas, researching inspirational goodness to post, etc. It’s
amazing how the Lord has prepared a way for this to be a productive tool in
bringing others unto Him. The mission is still working out some kinks and
figuring out the best way to do it, but we’re already seeing cool things! For
instance, I was able to get in touch with a less-active member we were meeting
with in Red Deer, and while we were catching up I found out that he was no
longer meeting with missionaries. I told him that he knew better than that and
that I was going to send the missionaries over, and he agreed! Thank you, Mark
Zuckerberg. The church is true!
Thanks for all of the love
and support! Y’all are wonderful people. God loves each of you and He wants you
to be happy. Many of us have habits or behaviors that hold us back from being
happy. Through Christ, those weaknesses can become strengths and we can find
joy! Evaluate what’s holding you back from being happy right now, then take the
necessary steps to change it! Keep reading!
Mantener la fe,
Elder Webb
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