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Pretty good week.

See you Wednesday

Love, Elder Webster 😬

Cecilia and Felipe

Golden Gate Bridge

Melara Family

T Minus 9 Days

Hey family. I'm about to go to Golden Gate Bridge. Not to brag or anything....

But I don't have much time for emailing today unfortunately.

Big stuff:

My 2 year mark was last week. I've officially been a missionary for 2 years and 2 days.

Our President challenged us to read the Book of Mormon in 90 days as a mission. Sooo... I've started to read the book of mormon while focusing on Christlike attributes. I'm on day 4 right now.

Veronica Zepeda (a less active lady) was debating switching churches one day in the passed week, and even though we've met her a couple times with little progress... we felt inspired to visit her one day. THE SAME day. and she accepted our visit as an answer that she should come back to church. and she did! :) it was awesome.

Any ways

Yep, I miss you all! -especially the family! :) Super excited to see you in a couple weeks!!!! I promise I will try not to be weird. haha

I've Got Like Zero Time To Write This

This last weekend was the GAY PRIDE PARADE! So.. serving in downtown San Francisco as a mormon missionary was a little hectic. I saw more body parts than I would have liked to. President just told us to stay inside as much as we could, but we had so many appointments, we were still basically outside all day.

I baptized somebody on Saturday! It was super last second. He wasn't one of our investigators or anything, but I was asked to give his baptismal interview on Thursday and we just sorta hit it off together. We went to his baptism on Saturday and the person that WAS going to baptism him couldn't make it, so he asked me to do it instead! :)

On Wednesday, I'm pretty sure we walked a total of about 15-20 miles. I've been super sun burnt all week long.

I went to my LAST Porque Yo Creo on Sunday and they asked all the departing missionaries to bear their testimonies, so I got up and bore my testimony on the fly. And a couple of my converts spoke as well! They just told their conversion stories. It was Yera (from Oakland) and Felipe (From San Francisco).

Love you all! See you in a few weeks, sorry for the short email, but I'll tell you more when I get home. haha

PEACE! <3 o:p="">

Elder Broman fighting against bedbugs.

Remember when I had bed bugs back in the day? hahaha too bad.

My President Letter

Some of you will think this story is cooler than others of you based on how familiar you are with missionary culture... Here's a copy of the letter I just wrote to my President:

We have this investigator that has been taught all of the lessons, and has been to church consistently for a few months. Her 13 year old son just got baptized a couple weeks ago, but she has declined each baptismal commitment we've left with her.

This upcoming Saturday, the Sisters in our ward are having a baptism for one of their investigators.

Last Friday, during our weekly planning session, Elder Broman and I looked at her situation and decided to set the faithful goal of 1 baptism this next week. If we could somehow get this investigator to commit to baptism, we could do a joint baptism with the other sisters on the same day. We texted her on Saturday and said "In preparation for our lesson tomorrow (Sunday), we would like for you to read from the book of mormon and pay attention to how it makes you feel. Please pray about it and ask Heavenly Father if it is true. We will see you tomorrow!"

Elder Broman and I decided to have a companionship fast in preparation for our lesson for us to be in tune with the spirit as we challenge her to be baptized the following weekend.

I have never felt the spirit so consistently. Typically in my mission, I have truly felt the spirit for a few minutes at a time a couple times a day. But the moment we set those plans in motion, I felt the spirit. I felt it all weekend long. Most strongly during our lesson on Sunday afternoon.

She was in tears. Her brother was in tears. It was a powerful lesson.

And no, she didn't accept the date. But I now have a very strong testimony of how setting faithful goals that make us stretch will help us to work more effectively and more by the spirit.

Elder Runco (One of my best mission friends) came back to visit the mission last week and we ran into him at Betty's house!

Me and my district hanging out at Pier 39 last pday

Bus Surfing

Elder Broman and I decided to try out a finding idea that I'm pretty sure is crazy. But it worked out great, and was a lot of fun! Usually, the biggest downside to working in San Francisco is the travel time. On bus, sometimes it can take an hour and a half to get to some appointments... BUT, this week, we set aside two hours JUST to travel. We had NO destination in mind.

we just Jumped on a bus, sat by two different people, and started to teach them whatever we could. When they got off the bus, or it was clear they weren't interested, we would get off the bus and get on the next one! It was super fun, almost like a game. AND we got like 3 or 4 new potentials out of it, including an 18 year old Columbian that Elder Broman found. He's looking pretty promising. We'll probably keep doing that for a while.

Also, Felipe got Confirmed a member of the church yesterday! The Young Men's President confirmed him, and it was super powerful.

We challenged him mom to be baptized, and she said she would be too scared to change from what she grew up with (Catholicism). which is totally natural. Her brother converted to the church a few years ago, and he talked about how hard it was for him to make the change as well. Actually, he was kicked out of him home when his parents found out he had been taking discussions. He prayed and asked to know what the right path for him was and he received a clear answer that the LDS church was the route he should take and that the Lord would provide a way for all those that follow Him. IT. WAS. AWESOME. He is such a great support for her. We think she'll be baptized once she prays about it sincerely. We're not rushing her, it's gotta come from the heart for it to have any impact on her, but we think she'll be baptized in the next month or so. Pray for her! #CeciliaCruz

YUP. Love you all.

ps. I found out there are a lot of members in my mission that read my blog. haha shout out to you!

Thanks for everything!

Elder Webster