Baptism

hello once again,

another week as gone by again here in the mission field. i don't know if i mentioned that the mission had 35 baptisms last month here in Michigan and already their is close to 10 or 15 this month so baptisms are going up like crazy here, which is good way good. specking of baptisms we had one on Friday and it went good Elmur Ybema had to go under the water twice cause the first time his foot game up out of the water so the stake Patriarch had to do it again and he went all the way under the water the 2nd time. and it was the stake Patriarch that baptized him not the stake President. but the stake President was their and part of the program he gave the opening prayer. their was about 30 to 35 people their at the baptism. even thou we got dumped on with snow we got over 6 inches of snow though out the day. but now it is down to just a half of a inch and melting which i do not like. i want the snow i am not used to this type of winter i want more snow then this. as of right now we do not have anymore people going to be getting baptized here in the next month of so. we do have a few more investigators that we are teaching and doing some door knocking but to much cause both of us are down now. but me and elder Bullard are doing better enough to go out and do some door knocking but to do much. he has a bike and same with the apartment but it is too cold to ride bikes and one of them has a flat tire and he cant ride bikes cause of his knee. ya riding the bus is no fun that's why i like having the car but o well we have to do what we have to do sometimes, even if we don't like doing it but we got to do. it is the lords work and not ares we are just his servants doing his work.

Last Monday when we went and played basketball with the other missionaries i did something to my knee and i don't know what i did ether. we have a mission doctor that we call, so i called him and talked to him on the phone and told him what happened. we was playing and while we was playing i must of moved my knee wrong and twisted it some how cause it hurt but it didn't hurt at first so i just kept playing with everyone but once we finished that game and we went and got a drink of water all of the sudden i was limping and my knee started to hurt. but i did have a knee brace to ware so i put it on and was wearing it while we kept playing. but the mission doctor told me to take some ibepofin(how ever you spell it) and keep it easy and ice it every night. so i have iced it for a few nights but then i kept on forgetting and now i see why he told me to ice it, cause it is hurting again. good thing we got the car back for a week but my knee is getting better and same with elder Bullards knee as well.

well missionary work. Last week we have trade offs with the district leader elder Jones and he came down here in Grand Rapids with me and it was on Tuesday tell Wednesday cause he had to do a baptismal interview for Elmur. and so we was walking cause we didn't have the car tell Wednesday. and boy did my knee hurt that day but i did it then i iced my knee after words when we got home for the night. so Tuesday was a good day and a long day even thou we didn't have to car and my knee was hurting. and elder Bullard went up to big rapids with his companion. then we had district meeting up in big rapids so we had to go a hour for district meeting but it was a good day. other then that and Friday it was a good week. we have Zone conference this Wednesday here in Grand Rapids. and so we are going to be at the church house all day long. well today we are going to go shopping after we finish emailing then we are going to go and get are hair cuts to make sure we look nice for Wednesday.

good ? on the library if it is going to be open or not we do not know. the library has not said anything. but if it is we will be emailing next Tuesday instead. that's good that Madison won over Shelley and that you was able to ride down on the bus to go and watch the game instead of driving down and wasting gas in your car you wasted gas on the bus and drove down their to Shelley and back. so how is Mikeal doing? and asked him where my letter is at? tell him i have been waiting for one for a long time now and when i get back home i am going to have to beat him if he doesn't send me one jk haha lol. so it Madison 1st seat for the district or whats going on for that? and let me know how they are doing and everything as well. that's good that you got to see jaden and Rhett you will have to call them up and get their address for me and you will have to give them the mission office address and they can write me. ya i know Kendall Kiser i want to say he played tennis during high school but i cant remember off the top of my head. hey dad do you remember what the persons first name is the person that was playing for Madison but coach Hawkins kicked him off the team for using drugs? he last name was Mickelson cause i might know him. well transfers are coming up again here in 2 and a half weeks at the beginning part of next month and most likely i am going to be getting transferred out of Grand Vally. and so i will let you know more information when it gets closer. but that's all for now hope to hear from you soon

YEAR MARK

hello,

     well first off i am going to be out a 1 year this week on Thursday. where has the time gone to. it does not seem that i have been out for 1 year. This past week has been a long but busy week. we didn't have any snow earlier this past week but then Friday night during the night it snowed about 4 inches and then during the day on Saturday it snowed another 3 inches and same on Sunday as well. so right now we got close to a foot of snow and people has been saying that we are going to get a lot more snow still to come. i keep thinking whenever they say that. no ones knows when it is going to snow the weather people can only guess when it is going to snow only mother nature knows and then the weather can change in 5 mins. the old saying goes "wait 5 mins and it will change" o get this we was talking about this the other day and he was telling me that i am going to be called to be a district leader next transfer and if that is the case i am going to be transferred cause are district leader that we have right now he is training and so he is going to be in the same area for 2 transfers(12 weeks) at least. and he was telling me that i am going to be down to st. Joseph and be the district leader their. St. Joseph is down on the bottom left hand side of Michigan. and as a district leader i get to go and trade offs every week with different missionaries to see what they need to work on and how they can improve and i also to get to teach district meetings every Wednesday as well. but that it just talk that i am going to be called as a district leaders next transfer but that is 5 weeks away. the Christmas card the reason why i didn't send it out tell now was cause we never went and printed off pictures tell after words and yes i did make that gingerbread house we was at a members house when we made them. the members always make them a week before Christmas but they cant eat them tell new years day. and ours is still in the apartment but we are going to throw them away this week. now mom when the missionaries come over you are going to have to asked them all of the mom ?'s right? lol but asked them where they are from as also you can do this. get their parents emails and take a pic with of them and send it to the parents just like a member did here in Grand Rapids. 50% off of the total purchase man i want one of them. that's nice that tabs had one of those. who was all their for her birthday besides you guys? i think that Louis is going to have fun serving down in SLC history and doing all of that cause he does love history. did he put that on the papers that he love history lol. what was the survey for that you guys had to take in Sunday school. and that's good that Eric stayed for the whole thing. and now this weekend is the Superbowl and you better let me know who is going to win and how good the game went.

 

     this past week here in Grand Rapids we had 15 lessons but what was good about that was that 9 of those lessons was with members which is way good i have not had that many lessons with members at all while i have been out here on my mission. last night around 9:30 we got a call from the Assistants. their is 3 Assistants right now cause 1 of them are going to be going home this next transfer and so they called another one. and 2 of them served here in the Grand Vally ward so they know some of the people that we are teaching and they always what to know how the area is doing. but when they called last night they called to gradulate (i think that's how you spell it) cause i am guessing that Grand Vally has never got that high with members or even lessons since they was in that area but when me and elder Kohler was here we was trying to get that high but it was not working but o well. but we was talking on the phone for about 10 mins and he asked how you guys was and everything and then he asked if he could come to my homecoming and i was like YA you can come to my homecoming and plus he whats to meet the family as well. but i told him it wont be tell February of 2013 when i get home. elder DeHart is from Utah but i cant remember where in Utah. the list that we have gotten from the ward we had to get another one cause we lost it when elder Kohler got transfers and we are going to get in contacted with all of the people on the list and set up appointments with them again. as of right now for this up coming week we have over 20 lessons set but we are going to have to ether move some of them or cancel (mis spelled) some of them cause we wont have a car after Wednesday we have to give it up to greenville for a week. and elder Bullard cant walk on his knee for very long cause it hurts but he is going to try the bus and see how that works on Wednesday. he has a bike but he cant ride bikes know cause of his knee. elder Bullard has served down in st. Joseph for 6 months before he came here. he started his mission Kalamazoo 1st ward and he was only their for 6 weeks and he also served up in Houghton Lake it is a small Branch up their and he was their for 4 and a half months and that was before he went down to st. Joseph but other then that i cant remember where he has served. that is the most north that he has been in Michigan. George i don't know how close he is to getting married cause he is still waiting on rings to come from Africa but we are meeting with him tonight and we are going to talk to him about that and see how much longer. he is ready to get baptized but he has to get married first and then the mission president. President Hess has to interview him cause of some things that he has done in the past. Elmer Ybema is still set to get baptized on the 10 of next month and it is a Friday so we are going to have to do it towards the evening cause a lot of people from the Grand Rapids ward and also from the Grand Vally ward knows him and also a lot of people that lives in the city of Grand Rapids as well. so we are going to be thinking that their is going to be around 50 people their for his baptism.

 

     right now with the ward here in Grand Vally we are starting a thing called "Intoduction to Mormonishm" this is for people can come and learn more about the church and learn what we believe in. the grand rapids ward and the Wyoming ward are going to be invited to do it. we talked to one of the sets of the grand rapids missionaries and told them about it. we are going to do 2 different classes. one of them is going to be the 13 articles of faith and that is going to be taught be a member of a ward. and the second class is going to be taught by us as missionaries. last Sunday when the ward mission leader was talking to the Bishop about it the bishop asked us when are we going to be it cause he thinks that it is a great thing to do. so we are going to do it pretty soon here in the future, most likely this transfer. also what i was thinking about this and i also told the ward mission leader was that after the class or whatever that we could have a tour of the building and tell them all about the building and what goes on in their and in all of the different classrooms. this is going to be herd at the church house here in Grand Rapids.

 

     letters are going to be in the mail hopefully this week so i am working on some. and right now i have 7 letters that i need to write people back. and i have only done 1 so far and that letter is not even done with. o with the missionaries mom. when i was in Greenville i got the address for the mission office their in Pocky and i wrote a missionary that is from Greenville and serving in that mission and he was in Rexburg at one time. but i told he to go and visit Eric and tabs and also the people next door to them as well. and i also told them about Tyler Roberts and his family as well. and i also told the missionaries to stop by your place to make sure that you guys seen them. so you are welcome mom and dad. and now look they are coming over for FHE on the 6th of next month. but that's all for now hope everything is going good and well talk to you next week and hope to HEAR FROM EVERYONE this next week as well.

 

 

elder Webster

Baptism for Elder Webster and Elder Kohler



Elder Webster Kimberly and Elder Kohler

 Elder Webster and his companion Elder Kohler have been teaching Kimberly for a few weeks now. Kimberly soaked up the gospel of Jesus Christ like sun rays shining down on us and loving every bit of it.  Baptized on January 14, 2012 in Grand Rapids, MI by Elder Kohler.


Kimberly and Her friend from Utah that flew out especially for her Baptism




Kimberly the Newest Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints along with 2 of her kids




Elder Kohler, Kimberly and 2 of her kids



hello everyone,

     well another week has gone by here on my mission. today is tuesday the reason why i am sending a email today is cause it was MLK jr day yesturday and all of the libarys was closed. well it snowed last week and i mean it snowed so we got over 6 inches of snow in 2 days but now today it is melting cause it rained all night last night so we can see the green glass underneath the snow. so right now we dont have that much snow on the ground anymore. thats good that eric is liking his job that he has but he will get used to being on his feet cause thats what i did all the time when i was working at broulims i was on my feet all the time and all day long. well we are on trade offs right now i am down here in Grand Vally with Elder Meng and elder Kohler is up in Greenville with elder Robles. we went up to Greenville yesturday to hang out with them and played games cause it was are P-day we traded off last night and we are going to trade back wedensday at distrect meeting. thats cool that brenner, tyler and derek all stoped by and you guys all talked for 30 mins or so thats good that they stoped by. was you glad that they stoped by?

 

     we had a baptism over the weekend and it was Kimberly's baptism and she was way excited for her baptism. her friend form utah was here for the baptism as well and we asked him if he could bare his testimoney about the church and he also asked us if he could sing a song and we was like ya sure and so he did. and the baptism went really good. and get this we went to go and fell the font up with hot water and well their was not that much hot water so it was really cold and elder Kohler was the one that got to baptise her. she told us that she was not worryed about the cold water but then when she got into the water she was like "burrrr it is cold" and the grand rapids elders was their and they also had a baptism that day but later on that day. but their is some bad news tho now that she is baptized we have to hand her off to the grand rapids elders cause she lives in the grand rapids ward now cause thats why her parents live and she is living with them. one set of the grand rapids elders lives just down the street from where kimberly's parents lives. but this was funny when the grand rapids elders told us that they went and door knocked on the same street that she lives on kimberly's dad answered the door and said that they are baptised but this was 4 months ago to before we was meeting with her at mickyd's. so i thought that was funny when they told us that. and kimberly told them that if she had answered the door she would of told them that she didnt want to hear the message of what we had to tell her but a month later she came to church and now look at kimberly she is baptized a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. then on sunday she was comfirmed a member and her daughter came and her daughter is 16 years old. then later that night she called us and we was talking with her over the phone. while we was talking i asked her how her daughter like the church and kimberly said that she loved it some of the young women came up to her and talked to kimberly's daughter. Kimberly told us that and we was like cool and now she wants to learn more about the church but we wont be able to teach her cause they live out of are area o well  the grand rapids elders can teach her.

 

     well we had traning last thursday over in Lansing and their was 2 people from the MTC their and gave us good stuff to learn about. we left the Grand Rapids stake center at 7:30 in the morning and then we didnt get back tell 6:45 and then we had to hurry back to are apartment cause are dinner apointment was picking us up to take us out to dinner and then he was going to go with us to an apointment after that. so we didnt get home tell after 9 and we was tried but it was a good and learning day. well we found something out last week about George(one of are investigators) he has to get married i dont know if i told you that or not but now he knows why he has to get married in order to get baptised. so he told us that they are planning on getting married anyway but they are waiting on a few things to get here then they are going to get married then he will be able to get baptized. but other then that are week went good it was a good week. and this next week we have a few apointments distrect meeting here in Grand Rapids. then on Friday we will be getting a call ether from the Zone leaders or from the mission president about transfer. we are hoping from the Zone leaders saying that we are staying together. and if we do stay together most likey we will tell the end of his mission. so thats all for now hope to hear from everyone soon love ya.

 

 

elder Webster

11 Months Were has the Time Gone

hello everyone,

      well i have been out on my mission for 11 months now, where has the time gone too. we have been busy here in Grand Rapids. right now we have 5 people with a baptismal date and 3 of them are for this mouth but we are going to have to move one of them to next month cause we want to make sure that he knows why he is going to get baptized and he knows for himself and has a good testimoney as well. so we are just going to move it back a week or 2 but not to far back. i did not know that their was a player that played for oregon that was from st. anothony, that is cool. ya and we herd that they won as well and same with Michigan State as well in 3 over times.

 

      the weather here is crazy over the weekend it was snowing like crazy sunday night here it was snowning and their was a strong wind but all together here in grand rapids it only snowed a inch or so. are ward here here in Grand Vally had a open house and at the open house their was lots of games and they was watching the bowl games that was on tv. the games that they had was pool, ping pong, and foose ball. and their was lots of food as well. we also have trade offs with greenville tommorow tell thursday when we trade back sometime that morning. we also had interviews last friday with the mission President, President Hess and they went good. he asked me if i think that Grand Vally should have another set of elders in the area and over the campus cause we cant get out to the campus that is here. the campus is the Grand Vally State Unitversity and it is 20 mins away from where we live at. so we dont get out their and President Hess told me that he is going to take a look at it again.

 

      ok for missionary work now. it is going good right now we have 8 or 9 investigators and out of those 5 of them have baptismal dates. and out of those 5 one of them is getting baptized next weekend on the 14th and she is way excited to get baptized. she told us that she knows that the book of mormon is true and that this is the true church here on the earth. and that jesus is the only way to go back and live with are father in Heaven. and she also told us that everything that we have been telling her is true and she is ay excited to get baptized as well. one of her friends from utah is going to be here for the baptism. this past week we was pretty busy with everything going on here in are area. last tuseday we have 8 apointment but we had to reshulched with some of them cause of things that came up. but then we went down to 6 apointments for that day but we only had 3 lessons happen cause some people was not home. but it was a good day thou. on Friday we distrect meeting here in Grand Rapids and we also had interviews with Presdient Hess. like i said earlyer in the email that President Hess is thinkning about putting another set of missionaries in the area to go out on the campus here and work their. also after that a member took us out to eat at a all you can eat china buffet right by are apartment and it was good and she is going to take us out to eat again this friday at the same place. but after that we had apointment with Elmur Ybaha and he is the one that is 91 years old and he wife has been a member for over 60 years. he has a baptismal date for the 28th of this month but we are going to have to move it back a week just to make sure that he knows that it is true and he is doing it for himself and no one else. Right now we have been meeting with some of are investigators twice a week to make sure that they now and are ready for baptism. Kimberly is going to be getting baptized on the 14th of this month and she is way excited to get baptized. she has a friend that lives in utah and he is going to be here for the baptism and she was excited for that as well. o we start church at 9 in the morning now. at church on sunday they was not that many people their on time but within 10 mins everyone showed up just like the ward back home right mom and dad lol. well we are doing trade offs with the greenville elder tommorow tell thursday morning and i am going to be up their with elder Robles(my old companion) tell thursday morning. so it is going to be a good week this week with everything going on. but thats all for now hope to hear from EVERYONE SOON love ya.

 

 

elder Webste

Short and Sweet

hello,

     well Christmas is over with and new years is this weekend. it was a green Christmas here in Michigan and now today(Tuesday) it is snowing and coming down good. i don't know if you told you this or not but i have been talking to the McLains and i asked them if they wanted me to go to the temple with them for the first time and they said yes and so i asked my mission President and he said that i could go to the temple with them. well it was good talking to everyone on Christmas next time i will get to call is on mothers day, which is in may. well are library was closed yesterday(Monday) and so we got to email today and we also get to email next Tuesday as well cause the library is going to be closed again next Monday cause of new years day. when we was out at the members house elder Kohler was talking to his family for 5 hours on the phone and it was 4 hours for when we was talking on the phone. that's funny that Greg had to say a few remarks tell all of the chairs was set up lol. so how is the new TV for you guys, mom and dad. the new 47inch TV.

 

    when we was talking on the phone home i got a text message saying that we had to call the zone leaders to give them numbers. we was going to do it the next day which was going to be Monday but we had to call them that night(Sunday night) to tell them so we had to call the Greenville elders and get their numbers and then call the Zone Leaders to tell them. but when we called them they nevered answered so we just called them the next morning(Monday morning) and told them the numbers and everything. well the list that we got from the ward is going good we have made a few more appointments with some people on the list. last Saturday on Christmas eve we had 2 dinner appointments to go to and boy was the both of us full from the 1st one and then we was over stuffed from the 2nd was and they both gave us left overs as well. well it is a short email not much to say right now but hope all is good and hope to hear from everyone soon. love ya

 

elder Webster

Merry Christmas

hey everyone,

     well it is christmans time once again. well we had a traning meeting last friday and saturday here in grand rapids. it went really good we also had a christmas party the last part of the traning meeting. they had games for everyone to play, they split the 2 zones up then the split the senior companions up from the jr companions and one of the games that they did was you had to out a oreo on your fullhead and try to get in you mouth without using your hands. you just have to use you face it was like the websters when they did it at the webster renuion a year or 2 years ago at green canyon. i did it and i got in my mouth in 30 secs. but one elder did it and you would not belive it he got it in his mouth in 3 secs i got it on vedio. no one belive it tell they saw it on my camara. it was crazy. there was a few other games as well that was their. but over all the traning went really well, we learned a lot as well. well for christmas time for me to call elder Kohler is going to call first to his parents then i am going to call, so i wont polly call tell sometime after 4:30 my time so it will be 2:30 your guys time.

      

      well last week monday when we got dont with emailing we got a call from the assistents telling us that we had to come and get some elders from the stake center in grand rapids cause they had to stay the night cause they was going up to a area but the other elders was not going to be their tell the next day(tuseday) so they slept over at are apartment. so it was pretty crazy that we had to go and get some other elders and bring them back to are apartment. We had a good and busy week this past week. we are going to be even more busyer this week cause the ward gave us 23 less active/part member families to set up apointments to go and see. so we are going to be doing that this week. We have distrect meeting up in Greenville this week so we are going to be traveling up their on wedensday morning for it. and the Zone leaders are going to be their cause we are going on trade offs with them tommorow morning and going to trade back on wedensday after distrect meeting. next week on friday the 30th we have interviews with President Hess here in Grand Rapids at the stake center. so that is some exciting news coming up anyway. but not to much going on right now just staying busy with apointment and everything. well hope everyone has a good christmas talk to you on sunday when i call.

 

elder webster