A Long Week into a New Transfer, Patience is the Key

hello everyone,

well this past week has been a long week and i mean a long week. I dont like Elder Robles it may seem like it but i don't. some of the ward members here already hate him cause whenever we go over for dinner at their house we always stay for a while and well now ya not we can't we can only stay for like a hour and a half and some of the members say already you guys normaly stay for hours and we do well Elder Robles he donest do that. and well i dont think i am going to be staying with elder Robles for that long here in Greenville. I will tell you Greenville is a relaxed area and well Elder Robles is not relaxed like all like me and elder Dearden was even tho we worked hard. well so this tansfer is going to be a long transfer unless he gets transfered out early from Greenville and i wont might that at all. Ya when we was over the Steven's house on friday we was their helping them with some service and we was their for almost 3 hours and elder Robles said that we need to get going and when he said that Sister Stevens and Mike Steven's both said already wow this has never happened. ya you could polly tell that it is going to be a long transfer. He has already prove some of the members wrong on a few things and elder Robles also judges people before he gets to know them.

are investigators so far is still with native and his family and also betty and Jonny Mclain. the Kavanugh family is doing good they are going to be moving into their new place on friday but we wont be their cause we have Zone Conferenve down in Grand Rpaids from 9 in the morning tell 3 or so in the afternoon. we havnt been able to go over their and polly wont be able to go over their tell next week some time cause we are busy this week. We are going to be in Ceder Springs tommorow(tuesday) and also on wedensday as well. Well hopefully on saturday we can go out to the Mclains house and watch General Conference with them out their. and he told us on the phone that he was planning on coming to the Pristhood season on saturday evening at the church house. the Mclains are still waiting on info from the bishop about a few things from salt lake still. other then that nothing to much is going on just door knocking a lot and also finding where some less actives are at. me and Elder Robles went around town yeaturday(sunday) after church and to see if any less actives live their still, we had a list of 10 people to go and see and out of those 10 their was 5 people that has moved away and out of town. other then that nothing to much going on just trying to stay clam with Elder Robles its not easy its polly a good thing that i have good paycense but he is getting close to the line and about to step over it with a few things.

thats not good that madison lost o well they need to win this next week cause it is homecoming and it is aganist his old school for coach buck. but i got to get going for i can write the mission Presdient. love ya all letters will be in the mail. hope to hear from you soon.

elder webster

Transfers New Companion

hey everyone

well transfers just happened and if you cant tell we didn't get a Chance to come to the library yesterday(Monday the 19th) and email. we was busy from 10 in the morning tell we had to leave to go down to Grand Rapids and meet up with all of the other missionaries. well my new companion is elder Robles he is from the state of Oregon. he has been out for a year now. and this is his 4th area he has been in here in Greenville. he came from a town called St Johns and he was their for 6 mouths. well elder Robles loves to work and does like to go door knocking so that is a good thing i think lol. it is a good thing that he likes to go door knocking. well i found out that another missionary that is in are district he got transfered to Grand Vally which is in are district but don't know where he came from i cant remember but he asked me where i was from and i told him from rexburg, ID and he told me that he is from Idaho falls the Ammon side of Idaho Falls and he went to Hillcrest for school.

ya P-days are now on Monday which i guess is a good thing it used to be on Mondays in this mission but we got told that someone in the Quorum of the 12 was the one that changed is to go to saturdays but now it is back to Mondays cause i guess it was someone in the 70 cant remember who ever but he said that saturdays are better to get people at home. well with P-days on Monday a ward member called us last week and asked if me and my companion would like to go golfing in a little Golf Tournament and we both said sure it cost 25 dollars for 18 holes and it starts at 9 in the morning and runs to 2 in the afternoon so now we just have to find golf clubs to go golfing with but their is some ward members that have clubs that they would let us borrow.

well last week was pretty good and we got a few things done but mainly it was a good week. it went by pretty fast. o ya yesturday(Monday) when we was down in Grand Rapids at the Stake center when we was putting stuff in the car i guess my camera was on the tunck and when they went to shut it, it got smashed so now we are going to go and get a new camera for me cause the screen on it borck and i cant see anything when i turn it on. so we are going to go to walmart today(Tuesday) and go and buy a new one for me. well me and Elder Robles was talking last night about a lot of things of how we can bring the area up and running and we found a few ways, we are going to start to go on the community collage we have here in town and start to talk to people their and also when we go the the community center as well and also Door Knocking. and we was also talking about the different people that me and Elder Dearden was teaching and how we can get them to comit to being Baptized so we are going to do that with Native and Lisa and with the new people we are teaching as well. last week when i was on trade offs with Elder Ballard we went to a referral we got from Slat Lake and when we got to their house and nock on the door they invited us right in. That lesson that we shared with them when way good and we told them about General Conference and they said that they would love to come to it and listen to the talks and we invited them to come to church as well we told them where the church was and what time it starts, and they said they would come.

ok sounds good on the package Elder Robles has one coming as well he had to tell his mom what the address was for Greenville. so how did the talks to in church on Sunday? so golfing huh dad well we got rained on to Sunday night all night it rained and it rained but it was not humid when we work up Monday morning which i thought was weird but that's ok with me i don't do humid. that's good that Madison finally won a game and it was against Shelly at their home coming ya good for Madison. who do they play this week. ya i think that coach buck is going to do good for Madison maybe he wont go to state this year but next year he well. well that's all for now hope to hear from everyone soon letter will be in the mail. o ya we are having Zone Conference this next week down in Grand Rapids and we are still on rotations but only with 1 area this transfer so we are doing a week on and a week off with the car so we get the car for 1 week and then we lose it for 1 week. and we lose it next Wednesday but that's ok. but that's all for now love ya

elder Joseph Webster

Service

hello everyone

well the reason why i am sending it this way is cause today is monday and we didnt get a chance send emails on saturday we was busy. well to start off with today we went to a chiense place to eat and when we was paying we got the little cookies that has a paper inside and well guess what mine said it saids "Next week, green is a lucky color for you" and it is transfers next week and elder Dearden and i have been saying that i am going to be training and when we train new missionaries thay are called "green" lol. well last week went really good we had a long week it started out to be really good but then we only had 1 bad day and it was thursday. we had distrect meeting that day down in Grand Rapids and we had to give the car away for a week so we needed to find a ride back to greenville and we did the night before. Jason Stone's dad picked us up after he got off work and he didnt get off tell 2:30 which was ok we had to wait at the stake center for him to come and pick us up then we had a dinner apointment with the Zima's and so they had to come and pick us up which was ok with them they didnt mind. and when we dont have the car we cant really go anyway but then the Kavnughs came and pick us up on saturday for we was able to help them out. then when we was done their he toke us to are dinner apointment and he thought it was in Ceder Springs but it wasnt it was in belding on the other side of Greenville so he stil toke us their. he said in the 2 years that i have lived in greenville i have never been in belding and he liked to drive over their. ya this week we have trade offs with the distrect leader again but this time i am staying here in Greenville with the greenie or the distrect leaders companion Elder Ballard and Elder Dearden is going up to Big Rapids with Elder Bready, he is the distrect leader.

transfer are next week, we find out what is going on on friday moring afternoon sometime we can get a call from the mission President from ether 8 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon or tell he is done. we just can not call around the mission tell after 12 pm. so i will let everyone know when we email next which polly will be ether on friday or saturday but polly will be friday for i can email at the stevens cause we are going to be with the kavanaughs again all day. the Kavanughs are going to be moving into a double wide trainer he in 2 weeks so we are going to be helping them do that here soon. this past week we have been not been doing that much finding cause we dont have a car.

sounds like you guys have been staying busy with getting wood and everything else that has been going on in Rexburg. well sorry this email is short but only have a few mins left tell we got to get going. hope everyone is good and i love ya

elder webster

Long WWWeeeeKKKK

hey everyone

well its another week gone by. i got a email from the mission President yesturday to see how i have been and i emailed him right back and now it is your guys turn. well school here in Greenville is started and they played their first football game last night but i dont know who won or nothing i got online when we was at the stevens to watch madison play i only watch the 2nd period and they was tired tell pocky score but then i have to get off but thats not good they got there butt kick well pocky is a hard team to play. it seems like madison just let them walk over them after half time. but now coach buck has a lot to work on for the team.

well this past week we got the car on wedensday me and elder Dearden had to go and get it down in Grand Rapids from the grand Rapids 2 elders while they was on lunch cause we didnt have distrect meeting cause there was training meetings that the distrect leaders, Zion leaders and all of the new missionaries had to go to for 2 days. and when we got to the stake center on wed they was already out to lunch so we had to wait so while we was we wne t in and talked to the mission President and some of the other missionaries that was their eating lunch. now since we have had the car we have gone to all of the different towns to see all of are investigators and today(saturday) we are going to go and see Native and his family(the family that has 11 kids) we are going to go and help them move some hay that fell down in their barn. well the whole mission is getting new beds and so we have to take a new beds that we just got for are apartment about only 4 mouths old and go and get new ones are apartment was the only one that has that new of beds all of the other apartments has had like 5 or 6 year old beds in their place or even older.

well missionary work now i guess before i run out of time. Greenville is doing goos right now. Me and Elder Dearden has been trying to stay busy, we have trade offs this next week with the distrect leader so i am going to go up to Big Rapids with him and his companion is going to stay here in Greenville with Elder Dearden. we are doing it on tuesday and then and wedensday we are trading back at disrect meeting down in Grand Rapids. well on tuesday the bishop went with us to apointment out in a town called staton it is about 20 mins away from Greenville and then he took us to Belding well we had another apointment but he just droped us off their cause he had to go but we had a dinner apointment in belding anyway that day but then the stevens took us home that night. so far tuesday has been are best day and also same with yesturday(friday) was also. but this past week just has been a long week and when are disrect leader called us last night just to see how are week has been i told him that it has been a LONG week and he agreed with me and he said that today(saturday) he is going to take a hour to a hour and a half nap cause it is are p-day so they was going to go and get everything down in the morning and then go back to their apartment and take a nap. and yes we can take naps on are p-days. the stevens family is doing good. no they are going to move out west cause Jayde the daughter is going to go to school at Snow Collage when she gets done with high school. and they are getting tried of Michigan.

well buddy(is the family dog, he got lose 2 days ago) is getting tough i guess. did you get a call from the dog place to go and get him or did you get a call from Joe Plamer. speacking of him how have they been with their new child? and how is savanna senila? ya like a said earlyer i watch a little bit of it but not much i asked the stevens if i could get on and watch my high school team from back home and they you can watch it online and i said yep and they ya go ahead so they watch it with me and they could not belive how good madison was doing but i guess not good anought. hopefully next week they can win. who do they play next week? when do they play rigby this year? well only have a few more mins left tell have to get off so thats all for now hope to hear from everyone soon love ya.

Elder Webster

Oops a Fall but got right back up

hey everyone

sorry didnt have a email out on saturday but we was way busy that day with everything that was going on. are p-days are still on saturday we got permissin to send a email today. well to start off this past week has been good tell friday. on friday we was riding are bikes and we decied to go under the road their is a underneath path that goes from side of the road to the other side, and this is by are apartment as well. their is a down slop to it on one side and a up hill slop on the other and when we got to the up hill slop i was down shifting on the bike to get going up hill and the chain came off and i went flying over the bike and hit my left side of my body. and boy did it hurt but i got right up when i fell down and kept on going but i got a good scrape on my left arm and by my left knee but i was ok it hurt for the rest of the day and whenever i touch it it hurts now. but o well i deal with it. on wedensday we had to give the car away to the Grand Vally elders so we dont have a car tell wed. but we got a ride from a investigator and his name is native he is the one that has 11 kids in the family. we was with him and the rest of the family for a few hours and then they took us to are next apointment in ceder spring with the stone's family and they took us back home after words. the stones family was the ones that took us to the coner bar and thats where i did the 12 hot dog challange. the 12 hot dog challenge was i had to eat 12 hot dogs in 4 hours but i didnt have that long to eat them i only had a hour and a half to eat them. but i ate them all in less then 45 mins but i threw up a little and jason stone(he is the elders qourm president) he was sitting by me and we was in a both and boy did he move really fast when i threw up and same with elder Dearden haha. but no matter what you got a t-shirt out of it i got one saying "i lost the challenange at the corner bar" and their is a pic on their of getting beat up by a few hot dogs and then it saids below "12 hot dogs served but not 12 down" but it was fun anyway but i am going to do it again here soon polly not tell next mouth thou.

well the mission work is going good last week was a slow week for us cause we didnt have a car for half the week so we could go and see all of are investigators cause they all live outside of greenville. and whenever we have the car we use it like crazy to go and see all of are investigators but we get yelled at for going over miles but we cant help it. it is ether get yelled at for not seeing are investigators or get yelled at for going over miles so we choose to get yelled at for going over miles to see are investigators. Native's family their is only 7 out of the 13 that is over the age of 8 but still that would be awsome to get them all baptized before the end of setpember. one thing that will hold a few people back is drinking coffie but me and elder Dearden has something that tastes just like it but it is not coffie and it has work with a few other people elder Dearden has said, so we are going to have them try it and see what they say.

ya if you didnt hear from my mom that i had to send my quitar home and everything that went with it. and i got permission to call to find out if it got their or not and i called almost everynight to see if it was their or not and i send it last tuesday and ot got their last friday the 19th and dad you can learn how to play it and i got that book of grath brooks so i could play it some day as well. the bast place to get new strings would be at Mikes music store which if i remember it is a main street their in down. and asked then which strings would be good for my quitar and they should know. so is coach buck going to win against his old team this year and go to state as well with being back at madison. and i herd that the basketball team might win back to back from what Mikael was telling me and that have 6 coming back or something like that from last years team that would be awsome if they won back to back at state for basketball. ya i remember cory i knew he was going to get married before i left on my mission it was on facebook. ya it sounds like i will not be in the same house when i get back and that rexburg wont be the same ether i will have to do what chelle did when she got back. go and drive around and see what has happened and see all of the changes that has happened. ya sorry if this letter is crazy i only have a hour and i want to get everything in that i can. ya greenville had a dansish festival over this past weekend and we went and helped a little on saturday and walked around as well. on friday was the first day for it and boy was their a lot of people in greenville for it as well. me and elder dearden both looked at each other and said i had never seen this many people and cars here in greenville before haha. but it was good we didnt buy anything cause we didnt have any cash on us but then we went to Native's place and hanged out with them for the rest of the day and then they brought us back to are apartment and we notice we didnt have the greenville area cell phone so native drove back out and got it for us and brought it back so we could have it and he didnt might doing that. we told him not to answer any calls that came in and he didnt cause we didnt have a calls that came in which is good. but thats all for now letters will be in the mail soon we have a busy week this week so polly will be the next week hopefully but hope to hear from everyone soon love ya

elder Webster

Getting Back to Basics

hey everyone

well thanks for all the birthday wishes i forgot to tell you that in my last email. well this past week as been a long week with everything going on in the mission. their was transfers going on and meeting with new missionaries. the distrect that i am in right now we got 2 new missionaries that just came out but me and elder Dearden just met 1 of them. he is getting trained by Elder Bready and he is the distrect leader. He had to come to greenville and drop off a few things from Lansing that we had to get cause we didnt get transfered or else we would of got the stuff at transfers. we have had 15 different lessons this week which has been a good week, we dont normally have that many here in greenville cause their is not much going on. but we got asked to help with a thing called the danish Festival here in Greenville. Greenville has been the host for it for close to 50 years now. and for the past 5 or 6 years the elders that have been here has cooked the food for it and so they asked us again this year if we would do that, good thing i know how to good some good hamburgers and hot dogs as well. we have a baptism tommorow(sunday) after church and after the linger longer for that ward. the ward has a linger longer once every mouth, it is just like the linger longer for the single ward at the church that they have every 4th sunday. we are going to have the baptism after that, his name is Kareem and he is 9 years old, he has a younger brother and a older brother as well and they are living with their aunt. their aunt is a member. and he is way excited to get baptised he is having his cunsin doing it. and his cunsin is only a priest but he lives up north in michigan somewhere. the other family that the Zima's are having us teach the dads name is Native and i cant remember but his wifes name is but their is 11 kids in the family but right now we are just talking with the parents tell they bring the kids. the parents are just coming over to the Zima's house everytime we go over their for dinner. they like church last week when they came even thou it was fast and testimoney meeting but all people was talking about was familys and that is what they like about are churhc is how familys is a big part in the church.

well if my mom didnt tell everyone we have to send all musical things home or send them to the mission home in East Lansing but we dont turst the Mission Home with all of the new Missionaries that come in and everything else, so me and elder Dearden are going to be sending them home and i am going to send mine home on Monday the 15th so eric or dad if you know how to play it you can and their is a tunner and a learning book with all different kinds of notes in it as well. the book with the songs is George Straght the greastest hits and a few other songs as well in it. and their will be a tonner and a stand that it is going to be coming with the quitar.

ya congrates tom on getting a job hey it is a job right now tell the snow falls and then hopefully you can work with them next year as well when the snow goes away. wait what am i saying it is the teton vally so their will be snow tell the middle of july for the teton vally right lol :). so dad are you saying that when i get home that i will be able to out drive you if you are hitting from the gold tees and not from the white tees lol. that is so crazy that school is starting up agian but ya i know that here as well are apartment is right by the high school and the band, football, and soccor all pratice on the fields that is by the high school so we can hear the band play every morning just like back home. they are doing a song from harry potter i am guess for the 7th movie that just came out. ya i dont remember Devin at all i might if i see him or see a pic. why would Troy take all that money that it just crazy why he would that all that, but who well. but thats it for now hope to hear from everyone soon. love ya

Elder webster

Go Teach and Learn

hey everyone,

well first off transfers we are staying together for another 6 weeks in greenville. Yesturday(friday) we was getting phone call after phone call and we was calling people as well to see where everyone was going. so it was a crazy day and the same with today(saturday) as well. we are happy that we are staying together for another transfer and same with a lot of ward members here.we have another baptism coming up on the 14 of this mouth it is on a sunday so it is going to be right after church. well today we are going to have dinner with the Zima's they are a family in the ward and they are going to have friends over that wants to learn more about the church. so we are going to teach them tonight after dinner. my birthday went really good we went over to a members place for dinner and played some card games with them. and then on thursday we went over to the Rackhams for dinner and went and good pizza fro my birthday so i had 2 birthday dinners. and on monday the 1st i got a call from sister Hess the mission Presidents wife and she wished me a happy birthday.

ya thats good to hear that the webster reunion went good. and glad that you got my SD card chelle yes i do want the pics back for i can keep them with me thought my mission. well if you didnt here we got a call from are mission president last week cause he wanted to see us and to see how we are doing in greenville well we fighured out why we got told that the bishop called him and told him that we was not doing anything well we are we told are mission president that we just had 3 baptisms and that we have another one coming up the only thing that we are not good on is finding new people to teach but as you read already we are going to be teaching new people tonight with some ward members. the family they have 11 kids so 13 people all together. so it was crazy when he called us and so he came and picked us up as we was running back to the apartment and when we got back he was talking with us for 30 to 45 mins at least then he went and took us to mickyd's and brought us food to eat right before are dinner apointment. so it was a crazy day last friday.

thats good to hear that the shed is dont and the same with the garage. now all you need to do is have a bar-be-que with them before school starts back up and foorball for jaxon.sure i can always have another shirt to wear. so how was the churckers game? thats good that you had a couple of extra tickets and that you gave them to the missionaries that was their. ya their is a ball park that is in grand rapids that the elders their go with the members. they have gone 2 times this past transfer. they are a AA baseball team for the MLB. so what did the missionaries there say when you told them that "the tickets were courtesy of our missionary".but thats wants going on here in greenville. well thats all for now hope to hear from EVERYONE soon love ya, letters will come soon

elder webster