enfermo, boo

Hello y'all,

I feel like the letters have been pretty boring lately. Actually I feel like, in general, they're pretty boring... sorry to the poor soul that reads these every week. We would have been raising the dead and casting out demons and surviving Mexican gangster attacks and what not, but sadly I was sick the whole week so we didn't do much. I don't really know what happened, but 2 Sundays ago I felt super tired; all of my energy went on vacation, the next day was pday and I was feeling a little woozy so I spent the day resting. Then the next day I had a stomachache and a headache so we headed over to the doctor and told him that I had a stomach and headache and he told me that, I had a stomach and head infection. Oh wow, thanks for the analysis doc. Then he gave me some medicine, and on Thursday all the bad stuff left mi cuerpo and on Friday we were out working again... we'll see what happens this week. My companion told me that he felt bad in the morning, and has been resting to whole day.
But the good news is that on Saturday we had a baptism, boo yah. It was pretty awesome. Sister Sonia was baptized. She's a great lady that's had a lot of problems in her life but now thanks to the gospel everything is in order. She's the first member in her family, but here in a few weeks, her family should be baptized too. She's like a pioneer in her family. Thanks to her-many people are going to enjoy the blessings of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
This morning I woke up and realized that it's week 6, which means cambios this week. I cannot tell you how fast the time here has gone by, I was thinking it was week 2 but here we are finishing another transfer, It's hard to believe but in this next transfer I will complete 1 year in the mission, like zoinks, Scoobs.
Lets see, what else happened? Oh ya, on Friday we had a special meeting with presidente. It was pretty good. He showed this video of the omni project where one stake indexed 1 million names in 1 month, and then we put a goal to baptize 48 people in the month of March as a zone. Also next week President Nelson is coming to visit the mission.
This morning as I was cleaning the house I realized that the weekly cleaning is like participating in the sacrament. If we want to keep the house clean we have to clean if every week. I have to say there are some houses that are pretty nasty in the mission. If you clean it after 1 week, it's all good, 2 weeks and it's pretty gross, 3 weeks and it's super gross, 4 weeks and it's a complete disaster. While I was mopping the floor, I noted a few small spots and stains that weren't there the week before, and a few spots that hadn't been cleaned before and were difficult to remove. It's the same deal with the sacrament, everyweek we make mistakes. We sin and we start staining our body. If we don't "clean" these sins as soon as possible there a lot more difficult to remove from our lives. I know that Jesus Christ paid the price for our sins, as we worthily participate in the sacrament every week we can keep our bodies clean and pure so that we can have the company of the Holy Ghost in our lives. I hope everyone has a great week.
Love- Elder Webb

New Record

Things are pretty good here in Calvillo, I'm writing a little bit later because presidente came to interview one of our investigators, who passed and will be baptized this Saturday, boo yah.  As for the others, they'll be in March. Here in Calvillo according to me there are like 12 investigators that attend church, and usually like 6 show up.
The area is pretty big, and we do a lot of walking. Here in Mexico. if you didn't know, we're not allowed to knock doors for security reasons...you never know who's gonna open the door. We find new people in the street, and since there no members that's pretty much all we do. I'm pretty sure I have about 10 ingrown toe nails. The mission destroys the feet.
This Sunday the branch set a new record 25 people attended, and 11 investigators came. I feel very blessed. In San Luis, we were always fighting for just one person to show up. Now if someone doesn't come, somethin' ain't right.
I hope you have a fantastic week.
Love- Elder Webb

la tierra magia

Howdy,
Sorry for the short letter; I got distracted by writing people from the ccm. In case you were wondering. everyone is doing good. Everyone was just commenting that it feels weird to have been out here for 10 months, and I have to agree. The time's gone by fast, and the time in Calvillo is flying by. A wise missionary gave me advice when I arrived in the mission "every transfer goes by faster" and it's true. A good anology would be my first transfer was like a Buick (not that there's anything wrong with a Buick) and now we are traveling at space shuttle speed.
Everythings going good here in Calvillo, this week we had interviews with Presidente and he said Calvillo is la tierra magia, and it's true too. We have 2 investigatores that are super awesome. Actually all of them are super awesome, but one named Sonia and her son Jonathan have a baptism planned for the 18 of February, boo yah. There's also Kevin and Titu for the 18th but they're a little more sketchy. On Friday we had the always exciting zone meeting. They gave us all the exciting deets about the new schedule, and today is the first day that were using it. So I'll let yall know how it goes. Pretty much its the same, only now p-day starts at 8 instead of 10 and we can choose when we want to study with our companions and when we want to study the language.
I hope everyone has a wonderful week-
Elder Webb

Elder Asencios in the flesh

10 Big'ns

This week was pretty intense. Let me think about what we did. Oh ya, so this week was pretty intense. I don't know how, but I was only in my area for like 3 days. I guess I'll give y'all the day by day, play by play.
Monday was another exciting p-day. The house here in Calvillo is new so it does need much cleaning. So while elder Asencios was taking a nap, I cleaned up his stuff, heh heh. Then we watched the movie about President Monson "On the Lord's Errand" which I've seen about 10 times, but it's still awesome. After that we went to check out all the fine eats here in Calvillo. Then we visited some people.
Tuesday was another exciting district meeting day. Everything went pretty good. The ap's didn't show up, so it was a little better. And after that, due to the long travel distance, from Cloinas to Calvillo and due to the fact that we had another meeting the following day, we had exchanges with the ap's. I headed out with the poderoso Elder Staley from the great city of Idaho Falls. He's a pretty great missionary.
Wednesday, we had the super exciting world wide broadcast with Elder Oaks, Elder Bednar, and Elder Anderson, and a few other people. It was pretty exciting. They changed up the schedule a little bit, basically they gave the missionaries the flexibility to choose when they want to schedule. We still haven't put the new schedule in practice, but Presidente is going to give us a new schedule this coming Friday. They also changed the key indicators.
On Thursday and Friday, I had exchanges with the all mighty zone leader Elder Foster from the great city of Kanab, so I headed on over to their area in Trojes. It was pretty good; we had pretty good success and we also found this magic pizza place that was delicious.
On Saturday and Sunday I was back in Calvillo and we were able to go to work. All in all, this week was pretty busy, but also very good.
Last week I shared a thought about faith but at the end I said by our fruits we shall receive the everlasting fruit, and I dunno that's kind of not true. Everything is made possible thanks to Jesus Christ. He payed the price so we can be free, but he didn't eliminate our responsibility to repent and do the right thing, I'm very thankful for our Savior Jesus Christ. I know that he is the way and by the power of his saving grace we may be saved, I hope everyone has a fantastic week.
Love Elder Webb <3

Calvillo

Imagine your back in West Virginia, but suddenly you're speaking Spanish, and everyone is Mexican. Welcome to Calvillo! Zacatecas was normalville, Españita was cholo landia, and here is hillbilly wonderland. Awesome! Everyone here has their little pick up and is wearing a cowboy hat at all times. A few of our investigatores went huntin' and we weren't able to teach them. Calvillo is like a little farm town that's 1 hour from Aguascalientes. So that means we are the only missionaries out here, and pretty much the only members too,.. its a branch and the branch president doesn't even live here, he lives in Aguascalientes. When I showed up my companion (who's been here for 2 transfers) said that there's 6 members. Apparently there like 8 or 9 but 3 don't go. This Sunday there were like 20 people, a bunch of investigators showed up, it was awesome! Ya so that's pretty much it, Elder Asencios my new companion is from Lima Peru. He was actually in my district in Zacatecas and if you might recall I had exchanges with him when he had 2 weeks in the mission, and I had like 4. Now we've gotten all big he has like 6 months and I have like 10, chin! He's a pretty good elder, and I'm happy that we're together. Yep, so there's all the juicy deets, I know there's a bunch of stuff missing, but, well, tough luck.
Anyways after I arrived here the next day we had the exciting district meeting. It was kind of mess and I didn't have any time to prepare anything, but the ap's helped me out and it all turned out fine. Tomorrow's round 2. Also this week we have an exciting meeting with the whole world, sources say that the Prophet and 12 Apostles are going to change the mission schedule and some other exciting deets. According to los chismosos they're going to change the daily planning from the night to the morning, and apparently they're going to change the study hour and stuff like that, but who knows. It should be pretty exciting.
This week I was thinking a little bit about faith and a little bit about the conversion process and I found this great scripture, "...and because of your diligence and your faith and your patience with the word in nourishing it, that it may take root in you, behold, by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious, which is sweet above all sweet, and which is white above all white, yea, and pure above all that is pure, and ye shall feast upon this fruit even until ye are filled, that ye hunger not, nither shall ye thirst" Alma 32:42, I like that it says by your diligence, patience, and faith, ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, that ye may be filled. The conversion is a process of a life time, and by our fruits, we shall receive the everlasting fruit. I hope everyone has a great week
Love Elder Webb

Cambios

Hello friends,
This was a pretty action packed week. I'll probably forget all the deets, but I'll try my best. Let's see, so this week started out pretty normal. On Sunday one of the hermanas gave us a referencia, who is actually her brother, so we headed over on Monday to visit him. This guy is literally an investigator of gold. After the first lesson, he asked how long it takes for someone to get baptized. Nobody asks that, so we quickly set a baptismal date. On Wednesday we went back to visit him, and discovered that he's a detective, and runs around Mexico doing awesome kung fu stuff and saving the day. He showed us all of his weapons and what not that he uses, he whipped out his ak47 and a bunch of other stuff. Pretty much one of the best investigatores that I've met.
After that we were pretty much preparing michell for her baptism and confirmation, I ain't gonna lie, I was a little worried that it wasn't gonna happen. But happily this Saturday and Sunday everything went perfectly. One of my favorite parts of the mission is when people enter into the gate through baptism. There's always an awesome spirit, and I feel satisfied on my part. Yep so michell was baptized on Saturday by the bishop and later I did the confirmation. boo yah.
After that the whole mission exploded. Presidente went nuts with the transfers this cambio. Pretty much everyone in my old district had transfers. Both me and my companion got changed from our area. My companion got transfered with Elder Pazmino (another elder from my district) to Tobasco, and I got transferred to an area called Calvillo in Aguascalientes. Ya, so now in my district it's the AP's, the Sister Training leaders, my old companion Elder hernandez and Elder Pazmino, my new companion, Elder Ascencios (who was in my district in Zacatecas) and the lowly district leader of this mess Elder Webb. The area is pretty cool, I've been here for like 3 hours but it seems like it's going to be great. It's in Aguascalientes and it's like an hour from the city. It's a little town with a lot of Catholics that will soon be Mormons.
Anyway, so thats all the exciting news, I hope everyone has a fantastic week.
Love- Elder Webb

Oh ya, Michell is the sister of Jesus, the recente convert, and there's the Bishop

Everyone but Elder Saquic got the boot

La Hermena Rocio, Elder Hernandez, Jesus, Michell, mystery baby, yours truly

Epistle

1 And it came to pass that in the last month of the 8th year of the reign of Obama, Elder Webb decided to write a letter like his fellow missionary in Gringolandia.
2 Verily verily I say unto thee, that this week was fairly normal, with the end of New Years and all the boozebusters, things turned back to normal.
3 Thus Elder Webb and Elder Hernandez were able to find all their investigators and invite them to repent after their sinful actions.
4 And thus we see that because of their grand success during the week, their future prospect for baptism, Michell came to church. But behold I say unto you it was not easy, but after 7 nights of gospel related games, she did indeed accept a baptismal date for the 14th of January.
5 And it came to pass that Elder Webb said "Boo yah"
6 But Behold I say unto you that Elder Webb is a little nervous about the baptism, due to future transfers at the end of this week, and all the sketchy things that happen in the mission.
7 But nevertheless, "be not afraid for on the morrow the Lord shall give the aid" said Elder Webb in his head.
8 And it came to pass that the last Friday, the Benito Juarez zone had their very exciting zone meeting, thus Elder Webb recieved 2 packages from Grandma Webb and the Gwynn's
9 And it came to pass that Elder Webb said: Gracias, muchas gracias.
10 And afterwards a declaracion was spread throughout all the land, here ye, here ye, y'all are invited to play soccer, Monday at 10, and thus Elder Webb came with great haste delivering a brutal loss to Elder Moguel and his lowly district, heh heh heh.
11 And now I would exhort you with all the energy of my heart, to serve the Lord with all your hearts, might, mind and strength, that ye may be lifted up in the last days.
12 And thus, Elder Webb was rebuked by the Lord for sharing part of the sealed portion from the gold plates with his friends and family.  Wherefore I conclude my epistle unto y'all, behold I am Elder Webb son of Layne and Brenda. Amen.