My comp is the same. We had companionship inventory where we talk to each other about things we need to work on and I told him straight up he need to help me out more. He said he would so that made me feel better.
So I am eating a lot of rice and eggs and this thing called Milinasa its chickens that you fry on the stove. So you could say my cooking skills are getting better. A lot of pasta with chicken inside.
We just got a new Elder living in our house, he's from New York and a new Native who I love to talk to!
So we've been teaching Soledad still and her boyfriend is just crazy. He LOVES to drink and do drugs. We went to talk to her one morning and he was there and kicked us out and was really really really angry. So we basically got out of there as fast as possible! Then that night she called us and said that he came home after dinner drunk and tried to hit her. She called the cops but all the cops did was pick him up and dropped him off at a street corner somewhere. He found is way back at about 4:30 am he came in still drunk and started chasing her and chased her right out of the house and tried to get her. She called the cops again and he was chasing her down the road when he heard the cops coming so he ran into the house. (Here if you run in the house the cops can't come in and get you unless there is proof that the person was hit.) So the police waited for about an for and he came out and got arrested until Monday. So a member is trying to help her out still. Trying to find an apartment for her and the member family is willing to sign for the housing! We will have to see what is going to happen this next week. But she is still dedicated and prepared for the Lord it is crazy!!! She has so much faith!! I think she's going to get baptized sometime in December! The member family even went as far as hired overnight security for a couple of nights. I just hope that when we go back over to teach he won't be there.
I don't want to sound selfish but I really want some Snicker bars and food but it's all good. I feel like the bottoms of my cheeks are getting a little fatty but the rest of my body is fine. It's weird…. growing up.
This was really just a normal week. Haven't really found any new investigators or anything. Just that 6 new sister missionaries came over which caused us to have to cut down our area which is hard because there are very few people who want to learn about the gospel.
Other then that I'm just hanging in there… the language is coming along nice and slow… so when I return I'll be able to talk to the Wiscombs in Spanish! Hahahaha!! It'll be way fun.
I wrote Emmy but guess she doesn't want to write back… but it's esta bien the natives really like her!! Hahahaha but love you all talk to you soon… I'll try to get a cool story this coming week!! Love you all!!
Elder Webster
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Saturday, December 7, 2013
November 10
Things at home seem crazy and fun! Seems like a lot is going on… tell SJ to work on her touch in soccer kick a ball agains the wall out side and try to control it and just keep working on that and tell her to look to pass and not hog the ball, coaches like when they see hustle and good passing and touches… Tell Emmy to have fun in school because when it's over it's over! Tell her to live in the now! Yeah wished Dad took a shot at the deer have a feeling he will get one soon… mom keep it up! Wish the Utes were doing better…
Okay for things going on here, so everyday we get up and I work out I hope I don't get fat at all that is one of my biggest fears but I know that if I keep doing what I am doing I won't. Then we do study and head to… so my comp and I are spoiled. We have lunch with members 5 times out of the week so its good not having to buy any food. The member are really the nicest people ever. Most of the time my comp just talks and I sit there and enjoy the day dream cause they just talk about random things and it's hard when I haven't heard any of those words before… food here is not super crazy to eat. We always eat pasta or some type of chicken and some other things that I'm not sure what they are but I don't really think I want to know……..
We walk everywhere! We have appointments with people but most of the time they use fall through. During La Siesta (nap time) we have a hard time because people always say that they are Catholic and don't really let us in. Sometime they come out and talk to us cause we have cool accents and they like hearing us talk. But not so much what we have to say.
We have found this person that really has been prepared by the Lord. Her name is Soledad and we have been teaching her for about 4 weeks now and she really is keeping our commitments that we give her. She had 2 kids and she's about 28. Her littlest one reminds me about the little Olson in our ward, she even has the hair for it, and she loves loves her older brother who is 11 and she's about 4 or 5 no se but it's really funny to see the two together. She has a boyfriend living with her and he is really addicted to drugs. She is really trying to find a place to move and wants to get away from hims cause she he gets crazy when he gets drunk. One of the member, without us even having to ask, came with us to the lesson and is looking for a house for her to live in. Soledad just needs a job, her boyfriend won't let her but she is getting close! She is almost baptized she just needs to leave her boyfriend. So this Saturday we will see how things go. The people we teach generally listen to us but we just have a hard time getting back to them.
The other day we were teaching and ended around 9:15 pm and we were about 20 minutes walk to our house (pent ion) and we had to be there by 9 the latest at 9:30 so we had to run. Running with a backpack filled with scriptures and pamphlets and a whole lot of thing. My comp isn't as in shape as I was but we had to keep running. Boom! we go off running. As we were running we came to a gang of dogs that were in our way and it would take to long to get around them so we had to go through them!! All the dogs looked up and started to growl at us my comp said he had a bad feeling about this. But I says, "Hey the Lord put these dogs here to see if we could survive lets do this! I took them head on, one came and tried to get my leg but dodged him pretty easy… this little one was coming from my side and I pulled a Reggie Bush and jumped right over him! (IT WAS AWESOME!!) then another one came up my left flank and I had to run on the side walk and he went for my comp. The final dog was this fat pit bull, so i was shuffling my feet doing little steps faking right left right left right left and he then he came close and I faked left and went right (Just like I do in basketball.) the tiny legs of the dog couldn't handle the turning so fast and tumbled down on to the street. So we ran around the corner and we were safe. It was pretty exciting! Then it turned into a movie and we had to cross the street and run through people cause this was the time of day where people come to and shop. My comp all of a sudden stopped, I'm not sure why, then got to the other side and kids were in our way. So he started screaming in English and Spanish and the kids parted like the Red Sea. (So that makes my companion Moses right?) Ran around the corner and saw the house, ran up to the door, got inside at 9:28pm. WE MADE IT! We were so sweaty I had to go into the laundry room and sit in a bucket of cold water. I decided that we made history.
Other then that not much is going one here it rained again but the water is nice and warm. When I where a jacket I sweat. I get more wet inside the jacket then I do in the rain. Loved you all talk to you next week!
Elder Webster
Okay for things going on here, so everyday we get up and I work out I hope I don't get fat at all that is one of my biggest fears but I know that if I keep doing what I am doing I won't. Then we do study and head to… so my comp and I are spoiled. We have lunch with members 5 times out of the week so its good not having to buy any food. The member are really the nicest people ever. Most of the time my comp just talks and I sit there and enjoy the day dream cause they just talk about random things and it's hard when I haven't heard any of those words before… food here is not super crazy to eat. We always eat pasta or some type of chicken and some other things that I'm not sure what they are but I don't really think I want to know……..
We walk everywhere! We have appointments with people but most of the time they use fall through. During La Siesta (nap time) we have a hard time because people always say that they are Catholic and don't really let us in. Sometime they come out and talk to us cause we have cool accents and they like hearing us talk. But not so much what we have to say.
We have found this person that really has been prepared by the Lord. Her name is Soledad and we have been teaching her for about 4 weeks now and she really is keeping our commitments that we give her. She had 2 kids and she's about 28. Her littlest one reminds me about the little Olson in our ward, she even has the hair for it, and she loves loves her older brother who is 11 and she's about 4 or 5 no se but it's really funny to see the two together. She has a boyfriend living with her and he is really addicted to drugs. She is really trying to find a place to move and wants to get away from hims cause she he gets crazy when he gets drunk. One of the member, without us even having to ask, came with us to the lesson and is looking for a house for her to live in. Soledad just needs a job, her boyfriend won't let her but she is getting close! She is almost baptized she just needs to leave her boyfriend. So this Saturday we will see how things go. The people we teach generally listen to us but we just have a hard time getting back to them.
The other day we were teaching and ended around 9:15 pm and we were about 20 minutes walk to our house (pent ion) and we had to be there by 9 the latest at 9:30 so we had to run. Running with a backpack filled with scriptures and pamphlets and a whole lot of thing. My comp isn't as in shape as I was but we had to keep running. Boom! we go off running. As we were running we came to a gang of dogs that were in our way and it would take to long to get around them so we had to go through them!! All the dogs looked up and started to growl at us my comp said he had a bad feeling about this. But I says, "Hey the Lord put these dogs here to see if we could survive lets do this! I took them head on, one came and tried to get my leg but dodged him pretty easy… this little one was coming from my side and I pulled a Reggie Bush and jumped right over him! (IT WAS AWESOME!!) then another one came up my left flank and I had to run on the side walk and he went for my comp. The final dog was this fat pit bull, so i was shuffling my feet doing little steps faking right left right left right left and he then he came close and I faked left and went right (Just like I do in basketball.) the tiny legs of the dog couldn't handle the turning so fast and tumbled down on to the street. So we ran around the corner and we were safe. It was pretty exciting! Then it turned into a movie and we had to cross the street and run through people cause this was the time of day where people come to and shop. My comp all of a sudden stopped, I'm not sure why, then got to the other side and kids were in our way. So he started screaming in English and Spanish and the kids parted like the Red Sea. (So that makes my companion Moses right?) Ran around the corner and saw the house, ran up to the door, got inside at 9:28pm. WE MADE IT! We were so sweaty I had to go into the laundry room and sit in a bucket of cold water. I decided that we made history.
Other then that not much is going one here it rained again but the water is nice and warm. When I where a jacket I sweat. I get more wet inside the jacket then I do in the rain. Loved you all talk to you next week!
Elder Webster
Monday, November 4, 2013
Dulce o Truco
Dulce o Truco it was Halloween here and yeah they don't really do anything to celebrate it. The kids just dress up and stay be their houses and do nothing… So for pray I have clothes… we can't wear anything like that in public only tie and shirt unless we are going to do service… there really is nothing in Santa Fe to go see so when I transfer I hope to see some cool sights! Transfers are this Tuesday but I am pretty sure that I will stay here cause I am on this first 12 weeks with my comp.. Elder Menjiuar left it was a sad day… we were really good friends… he said that he will keep in touch!! Oh by the way mom how is that IPHONE, treating it well I hope…??
So the ZLs had a family that needed baptism interviews so my comp got to go cause they can't give it to families they teach… so it was this huge family! We sat own and was there for about an hour and then 2 more hours for all of the kids going to be baptized… the kids that were waiting killed me! Not really they were all per me and kept playing with my stuff and hands I of course had no idea what they were saying but it was all good I love them!!!!! They were just the best little big family ever!! I pulled out my camera and they loved it! They took my camera and took like 30 photos of random things hahaha!! I come to figure out that I connect with the kids better than adults… HAHAHA!!
So yeah mom I was thinking about the time I was younger and you let me stay home from school and you and I went to go and see Disturbia… I was just day dreaming about that moment when we were walking around. I lag behind my companion so I am able to think about the good old times!
Well you know nothing is really happening just that we are getting 8 more companionships that are sisters come so District Meeting is going to be weird… Those are on Tuesday so we will see who they are. The language is coming along just takes some time… I am finally learning how to cook so that is great!!!! Haha tell Wiscomb I will marry her daughter and tell Brady to keep practicing tramp ball because when I return its on!!! Well keep telling people hi love you thanks for the letters and really looks like things are running really smoothly! Well love you family!!
CHAU CHAU
Elder Webster
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| I am washing my own socks!! |
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| Here's part of the family |
Well you know nothing is really happening just that we are getting 8 more companionships that are sisters come so District Meeting is going to be weird… Those are on Tuesday so we will see who they are. The language is coming along just takes some time… I am finally learning how to cook so that is great!!!! Haha tell Wiscomb I will marry her daughter and tell Brady to keep practicing tramp ball because when I return its on!!! Well keep telling people hi love you thanks for the letters and really looks like things are running really smoothly! Well love you family!!
CHAU CHAU
Elder Webster
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| This is a little girl from the family! She is so cute liked to touch my face!! |
Monday, October 21, 2013
Kiosco de Mou
Okay well hello family,
Just been doing splendid this week. Wondering if you are doing good things with my iPhone and keeping it safe... just kidding!
It's funny, but my Comp doesn't like to stop and wait for me to take pictures. (I take a lot so I get it!) I love going home and seeing the other Natives I can always feel 10x better no matter what my mood is. I just really love them! I keep telling them to come visit me when their mission is over they just need to buy a plane ticket. Their names are Elder Menjuir and Elder Corrasco they are 21 and 18 they are the best ever!!!!!! I taught them some fun phrases in English and so they say them all of the time! They are also showing me how to cook so I am getting better at cooking and not burning eggs so much... but yeah they show me tricks and show me so I can do it... I am learning how to do, Mom when I come home you don't have to cook for me all of the time.
We found this guy name Miguel and he is 50 years old and plays video games all the time. So I talked to him bout is and he has become my favorite ever!!!! He is trying to learn English so when we visit him he always trys to talk to us in English... it is pretty fun... All that's really going on if just trying to find new people to teach but La Siesta is killing us! We keep running into other religions and they always use the bible to bash us and they like to give us a lot of pamphlets of their religions it's fun. I am going to keep them and see how many I get for a while... Nothing else is really happening just trucking along... So yeah don't worry it's all good!
Love you guys stay in touch I'll send more pics of things if I can find them love you all!!
Elder Webster
P.S. Happy birthday to Emmy on Saturday the big 1 7!!
Just been doing splendid this week. Wondering if you are doing good things with my iPhone and keeping it safe... just kidding!
It's funny, but my Comp doesn't like to stop and wait for me to take pictures. (I take a lot so I get it!) I love going home and seeing the other Natives I can always feel 10x better no matter what my mood is. I just really love them! I keep telling them to come visit me when their mission is over they just need to buy a plane ticket. Their names are Elder Menjuir and Elder Corrasco they are 21 and 18 they are the best ever!!!!!! I taught them some fun phrases in English and so they say them all of the time! They are also showing me how to cook so I am getting better at cooking and not burning eggs so much... but yeah they show me tricks and show me so I can do it... I am learning how to do, Mom when I come home you don't have to cook for me all of the time.
We found this guy name Miguel and he is 50 years old and plays video games all the time. So I talked to him bout is and he has become my favorite ever!!!! He is trying to learn English so when we visit him he always trys to talk to us in English... it is pretty fun... All that's really going on if just trying to find new people to teach but La Siesta is killing us! We keep running into other religions and they always use the bible to bash us and they like to give us a lot of pamphlets of their religions it's fun. I am going to keep them and see how many I get for a while... Nothing else is really happening just trucking along... So yeah don't worry it's all good!
Love you guys stay in touch I'll send more pics of things if I can find them love you all!!
Elder Webster
P.S. Happy birthday to Emmy on Saturday the big 1 7!!
Conference Weekend and Jeopardy (Oct, 7,2013)
This week was better with the language. I am getting to understand how the people mumble their words together and I am trying to really focus... sometimes I just sit while my comp talks to the people which is fine with me. So yeah nothing really happened. We were tracking or looking for inactive people and saw this girl about the age of 20 pulling weeds and said Hola and she came over and talked to her for a little while. So we gave her the run down of the first lesson, yes I said my parts that I did. And she was really liking it so she invited us over again. So we went over and out popped 3 more sisters I remember one name it was Maria, I feel bad but it's all good. Their ages are 15, 20, and 22. They really love us what I mean that because they are really flirty. Like a lot. So Maria, the first one we taught, came with us to the Saturday morning session of Conference, we brought 2 other girls around that age from the ward to help us out. When the session was over she said that she really like it and then we asked the other what they thought. They both said they like it but one of them was really hungry... it was all good.
We found another girl around the same age 20 her name is Diana and she came with us to the Sunday Session and she really like it. I was happy that we were able to get people to come, it seems like a lot of people that let us in are girls and not guys but hey that's still pretty good.
So yes it was conference and I loved it more that I ever had at home, go figure. If you actually have to pay attention. I'm not saying that I never had before but you know... So they broadcast it in the Church in the chapel and there is a huge screen for the Spanish and in the other room across the hall there's a small TV for English. So about 6 of us huddled around and we watched it, was kind of funny to see us all sitting like that. We bought food and watched. I kept the Webster Family tradition alive and bought food after priesthood so don't worry keeping it going. We are 4 hours ahead of you so yeah watched in live.
The other day we had an activity with the Youth and they played Jeopardy. They had no idea what that was. So we explained what it was but I don't think they really understood. The questions involved scripture stories and prophet and gospel things. Then we had one for soccer and they got those REALLY fast. (Faster then the religious questions.) There were 4 boys and like 10 girls on a team yelling and screaming it was really intense! I was on a team and another Elder was on another and we were giving answers and the other team got mad saying that it wasn't fair to have the Elder's on the team. It was really exciting!!!
I am set I'm trying to find someone to hem my pants cause people are saying that I look like a clown! Some of my pants are good so don't worry Mom it's all good!! Love you talk to you soon!
Elder Webster
Santa Fe, Argentina (October 1,2013)
Yes I made it!! Sorry I sent my 1st letter to the wrong e-mail! I forgot!
Yeah I am in an area called Santa Fe so that is 3 hours outside of Resistencia. It is a pretty poor place here. We are whitewashed, that means that 2 brand new missionaries are sent to a new plce with no experience of that place. So it's kind of hard to get around but things are going good.
Yeah I am in an area called Santa Fe so that is 3 hours outside of Resistencia. It is a pretty poor place here. We are whitewashed, that means that 2 brand new missionaries are sent to a new plce with no experience of that place. So it's kind of hard to get around but things are going good.
So things are good. Just haveing a hard time with the Spanish. My comp is from Canada and has 3 months left of his mission. So I am just letting him guide me to eternal success. He is a pretty cool guy. He speaks Spanish very well. So I am really glad. Song things about the Grand Mission of Argentina is that you don't knock on the door, you have to clap your hands and they will come out to talk to you if they want. It's pretty cool. When guys say hi they give each other a regular hand shake then they turn their wrist back so the thumbs towards them. If that makes any sense so that is pretty sick I love it. The food here is good, the pizza is the best, they just put so many different things on it. I have no idea what's on it but is way good and I love it! The people that drive here are scary! There aren't really any traffic laws. There are many one way streets. But again no stop signs so people just really coast into the intersection and speed up if someone is about to hit them so yeah you can't have road rage here. The girls do little kisses on the cheek to say hi to each other. What else...... ummmmm.... so our apartment is pretty nice. I am with two native speakers they're pretty cool people love them. It is a nice place.
We taught these members and I really just sat there. I know that this will take time but I want it now!!!!!!! So yeah we were walking around and stopped to talk to these other member and I started talking to the little kids out side and gave them some gum. The kids got comfortable and started talking a million miles and I just kept saying yeah and laughing, cause they are kids, they don't really ask question. People have a hard time pronouncing my name, I laugh and make them keep trying!
Oh yeah there is another things that is called La Siesta, which is at 1 to 5 is nap time and people honor that thing here so well. So we have a hard time tracking and talking to investigators at that time. But yeah I am just working hard and trying to do spanish... My friend told me in the MTC to love the people and learn the language so yeah that is what I am doing!! But love you guys running out of time I'll tell some cool stories nest time. Love you all!
Elder Webster
Friday, September 13, 2013
Testimonies of Strength
Okay so we have moved to the west campus. BTW I have been getting all of those Dear Elders, just takes time for my handwritten ones getting home. So sorry if you dont get them write away I promise you that I am writting you guys and getting the packages!!
Other big new I think I got my temporary VISA!! So yeah its for 90 days so I think I will leave on the 23rd of September!!! That is exciting!! But I'll let you know for sure what is going on!! The West Campus is great so much easier, its freedom from the Upper one because the West is soo enclosed and stuff but yeah its cozy I'll send some pics of the apartment and classroom its really weird cause literally is just a class room hahah but yeah its great! The language is coming along, still dont have it all down but hey it works.
Cool experience was we did TRC (where real members come in with problems) and we went in and started talking to this lady about 40s Hermana Rice. She is such a wonderful person. We started off good, but we couldn't find her problem. Finally we started talking about families. She went off about families and told us that her family is doing great in the church and they believe in everything, but she stopped on her daughter. This daughter is 20 and in the Navy. She doesnt live with her anymore and she said she is having a hard time with going to church. She said she believes and everything but still has a hard time believing in things. Her friends pressure her to drink and to do not such nice things. So I got this feeling to talk about my situation on how I don't really dont hang with people that are members. And it was really intense, we talked to this lady for about an hour. She really was feeling the spirit and loved how I shared my whole life on how I am being strong in the church with all of these non-members. So at the end of it, we asked hey need anything? She said can you write my daughter about what you have shared to me cause this will help her a lot. So I am going to write her right after this and I'll let you guys know if something happens. If missionary work is like this, I cant wait to go out to the field and see how I can change lives!
Hope you guys have gotten my pics and my letters (handwritten) I'll try to keep up with those, loving hearing stories and all that!! Thanks for all the pics, U of U stuff, quotes, everything really am grateful!
Love Elder Webster
Here's what my room looks like.
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