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Howdy all,
So this was a pretty good week. On Wednesday we had the always exciting multi-zone conference, it was pretty good. But what was even better was the exciting Christmas dinner (lunch). We ate Christmas meat, Christmas noodles, and Christmas fruit. And then after that we had the long awaited gift exchange. To be honest I've never really liked the gift exchanges, especially this year, because I forgot to wrap my gift. So the night before I made a giant cone out of cardboard and put the upside down Christmas hat filled with candies in there. Then I had to go in front of everyone and give my gift to Elder Arce, how embarassing. Whatever. So that was pretty exciting.
This last week with Elder Rosell was pretty good too. We went for tacos almost every night. Elder Rosell was a great companion, and I'll miss him a lot. But the good news is that my new and last companion Elder Aquino showed up on Monday. Elder Aquino is from Oaxaca, México. He seems like a great guy, and I'm sure we're going to have a lot of success. But it was weird when the new missionaries showed up the first thing Presidente did was take them to the movie theater, and we watched the movie Coco, (Elder smith and I voted for Starwars 8, but oh well) for our exciting Christmas movie this year. It was pretty good I learned a lot about family history, and our ancestors and what not. Anyway I hope everyone has a great Christmas. I'm looking forward to talking with y'all on Sunday 😀 Hey check it out, I didn't know I could use these things.
Love Elder Webb

T-minus 3

Sorry for not writing last week. All of Pabellon wanted to be baptized so we were in the baptismal font for the whole day, nah just kidding. We went to Aguascalientes for a district activity and we got back late, and then there was no time to write. Also just so you know the assistientes informed me that I'm going to train a new missionary for my last 2 transfers, and the new missionaries arrive next Monday so next week if I don't write Monday, I'll write Tuesday.
Anyway, if you're wondering how I've been doing I would describe this last week with these words: Nippy, freezing, super cold, my toes are falling off. I don't know what happened but Mexico or at least Pabellon has been nippyfied, it's probably like 50 degrees but man I don't remember it being so cold last year, and the bad part is that no one has heaters here. So the temperature outside is the same temperature inside. Other than that everything's been great. We haven't done much because 2 weeks ago my companion had to go to the hospital to get his foot checked out, and once again the doctor had no idea what he had. But his knee was also starting to hurt, so he was sent to rest for about a week and a half, but now he feels much better, and is all ready to go. Good old Elder Rosell he's been a great companion and I'll be sad to see him go.
I can't believe it's already Christmas time. I remember last Christmas I was with Elder Hernandez, and I said when it's Christmas next year that's when I'll start to worry about going home, because you'll be going home. Now Elder Hernandez goes home this next Monday and it's crazy. But you'll be happy to know that I don't feel worried. This year I've been reflecting on past Christmas'. I've been remembering family traditions, fun activities that we did, door bell ditching the neighbor's to leave them something for 12 days of Christmas, and other good times. But I've also been thinking, how would Jesus Christ celebrate his birthday? Instead of getting up at 4 in the morning to open the presents or going to a shindig I'm sure Christ would be delivering presents to others, helping the sick and the needy, ministering to the hungry and poor. It's sad to see so many people here in my area who won't receive anything for Christmas, and I wish there was something I could do for them. I hope this Christmas we can remember the true meaning of Christmas, celebrating Christ's birthday the was he would. Matthew 25:40-Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." I hope everyone has a great week
Love Elder Webb

Oh ya, this candle lit our house for 2 weeks because we didn't have electricity

The Epistle of San Webb to the Alpiners

1) Behold my beloved bretheren, grace and peace be unto you.
2) But now I must say, wo, wo, wo unto the wicked ones, for the enemies of the righteous must be destroyed, yea, even by fire.
3) But behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, the fiery furnace of the adversary shall not burn those who shall repent.
4) Repent ye, repent ye, for the kingdom of God is at hand.
5) But now my dear brethern, I shall proceed with my account of this weeks events.
6) For it came to pass that the wickedness of Pabellon did increase exceedingly, and San Webb's soul was sore afraid lest they shouldst be destroyed.
7) Wherefore San Webb didst preach the Gospel all the week long, that they shouldst not dwindle in unbelief.
8) But behold on the morrow 4 days after yesterday San Webb's companion didst say, my foor paineth me, and San Webb didst say, "To the local wizard/ranchero we shall go."
9) And whenst they did arrive the local wizard whose name was Mr. Doctor, was profoundley confused, and could not detect the problem.
10) Never the less, he didst perscribe some very expensive medicines and didst pat himself on the back.
11) And San Webb didst say "well that place was a rip off"
12) And now behold, San Webb's companion doth find himself bound to his foot that paineth him. But San Webb and San Rosell didst say "Surely as the Lord liveth the work of salvation cannot be stopped by the work of the adversary"
13) And it came to pass that they did preach fearlessly, working miracles, and bautizing in the name of Jesus Christ.
14) And so great and powerful was their preaching that the sick and afflicted were left in the streets in hopes that the shadows of San Webb and San Rosell wouldst pass over them.
15) Now behold the Lord forbids me that I might write more. Amen.

mmm, Thanksgiving dinner

Pabellon Days

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, I'm not sure if it was this last week or if it's this week. Sadly, Thanksgiving isn't celebrated here in Mexico. The next big holiday in Mexico is the 12 of Diciembre where they celebrate the virgin of Guadalupe.
But I would feel ungrateful if I didn't express my gratitude. I feel like I have been highly favored of the Lord. My whole life has been filled with wonderful blessing. First and most importantly the knowledge of Jesus Christ and his atonement, fill my life with joy. The world would be a sad, dark and cruel place without Him. I've met a lot of sad people who feel the way they feel because they don't have Christ; they don't know him, and they don't know what he did for him. Jesus Christ makes salvation possible, eternal happiness with our families in this life and in the life to come. How grateful I am for my Savior Jesus Christ. I know he loves me, and I always want him to know that I love him.
Anyway, this was a pretty good week. We were hard at work in Pabellon Days. With everyone out in the hubabalu, it's been a little difficult to find people in the homes, but it's been great to be able to talk to people in the street, and to find more poeple to teach. On Tuesday there was an hermana that had promised to make the cookies that we were going to hand out and have them ready on Tuesday in the afternoon, so we showed up Tuesday after having remindered her a few times, and she said oh no elderes I forgot! Rutroh, so we made the cookies on Tuesday and handed them out on Wednesday. But the good new is that the hermana and her family who made the cookies are starting to become active again. According to my companion, in all his time, here they've never made it out to church, but these past 2 Sundays, they've been there. Here in Pabellon there are a of inactives that haven't been visited in a long time. The other good news is that the cookie activity was a success! And there were still cookies left afterwards for us! Anyways I've gotta bounce out we are going to go to Rincon to see if we can visit a few folks, have a great week!
Love elder Webb

welp this picture won't load so I guess there will be no action shots today

...it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Howdy Pardners,
This has been another exciting week in the best mission of all time, Aguascalientes! Now that all this Halloween and Dia de los Muertos business is over, it's time to bust out the Christmas decorations. We've got Santa wonderland here and there's an exciting shindig here in Pabellon too. According to me it's like Alpine days, but in Pabellon. Pabellon Days. Yesterday there was a parade in front of our house until like 11 o'clock. It was pretty intense.
In case you were wondering, Pabellon is just like Calvillo, it's a country boy wonder land. Mission Mexico-West Virginia!.. er I mean Aguascalientes. But what's different here in Pabellon is we also have to visit other ranchos like San Pancho and Rincon, and the Goma in our area. Everyday we have to take the community van for about 30 minutes to get to the other rancho.
How's the branch? Oh well. sadly, the branch has seen better days, the normal assistence(attendance) is like 20-25 people. In Calvillo it was the same, but the difference was that in Calvillo there were only 10 members that lived in the area. Here there's like 100, so there's a lot of work to do. The other good thing about the branch is that it's the branch/ward in my mission that has the longest amount of time without baptizing. There haven't been any baptisms here in more than 18 months. It's a long picking time. But hopefully that's about to change. We don't really have any investigatores bien potentes right now, but tomorrow we are going to put up a stand in Pabellon days, and we are going to give out lemonade and cookies, and Book of Mormons and all that fun stuff. So pretty much after that, all of Pabellon is going to want to be baptized.
My companion is super awesome too. He's probably one of the nicest companions I've ever had. He's like a giant teddy bear, and he invites me to eat free food at night, so who can complain.
Have a super awesome week, Happy Christmas!
Love- Elder Webb

Yep, both haircuts were done by yours truly.

Maybe this will be my last area

Welp, another exciting week has already flown by. I don't have a lot of time so I'll get right to the juicy deets. As you may know this last week was week 6 which means, cambios! I was convinced that I was going to die in Popular, but the Lord had other plans. I am currently writing y'all from the great state of Aguascalientes, in a pueblito called Pabellon, with the all powerful Elder Rosell, who has like 16 months er something like that. According to me Pabellon is like Calvillo but it's a little bit bigger. I haven't really got a chance to check out the whole dealy-o, but it seems like a great area. I'm pretty sure there aren't too many investigatores, but we can fix that.
It's always good to be in a new area and to get a fresh new start. I feel blessed to have been in Popular too, and I feel like I left the area in good shape. If everything goes well. they'll have a baptism this week, 2 next week, and 1 the week after. Boo yah. Anyways have a great week, and choose the right.
Love- Elder Webb

19 Months Poem

19 months have just flown by,
They're all worn out, my shirt and tie,

My garments aren't white,
It's quite a fright,

Tacos and beans all the day long,
My digestive system says "that's just wrong",

Beans are indeed the magical fruit,
And I can promise you, they'll make you toot,

Yo,

My body's so tired,
That I could take a snooze for a long while,

My teeth are starting to turn yellow,
And I'm thinking my friends now don't want to say hello,

But the good news is, that I've come to love,
My Father in the Heaven's above,

I have indeed learned a lot,
and I've also elevated my plane of thought,

My testimony's strong, I know it's true,
The Savior paid the price for me and you,

The sweetest experience that I know,
Is following the Spirit, who shows us the way to go.

Anywho, this week was pretty good, we had exchanges 2 times this week so that was pretty intense, and we also had a baptism.Little Miguelito got baptized this Saturday. As usual everything was a complete mess before the baptism, stinking satanás. On Saturday before the baptism we showed up with Miguel to do his baptismal interview, but his mom told us she had to work that day, at 5, the same time that the baptism was going to start, and that we would have to postpone it for another day. But the Spirit of the Lord inspired us to ask her if we could do it earlier, so we changed the time, and had to inform the whole ward and fill up the font super quick, and everything was a super mess. I had to slap together a quick talk because the other dude bailed out, but as usual the actual ordnance was such a sweet experience. Miguel only is 9 years old, but it was another testimony to me the Christ does indeed love children, and the baptism is necessary for everyone.
Have a great week, happy Halloween, and day of the dead!
Love-
 Elder Webb