hello everyone,

hey how is everyone doing? how was everyones thanksgiving? ares was good, we went over to a family in the ward and we was their all day with them. we went and saw a member who was in the hospital and we went to go and see how she was doing. well last saturday me and elder Kohler got to go back up to greenville for a baptism for jonny and betty mclain. the baptism went really good they was a few non members their that was friends of them and also family. the bishop did the baptism but i was on backup for it cause he hurt his leg 2 weeks ago and he was not sure if he was able to do it or not but once he got in the hot water it was fine and it was not hurting at all. and he was able to do the baptisms but it went really good. jonny and betty came down and picked us up o get this. we went to sonic to keep some of the chesse sticks cause they are 99 cents every saturday during the winter and while we was their guess who pulled up, they did(jonny and betty mclain) as well. cause when they came and picked us up at are apartment they said since they had time that they thought about getting a sonic burger and they did and we was their was well how funny is that. well this sunday night we are having a big thing with the Grand Rapids ward. we are having a broad cast from salt lake for the chrismans devotional and the mormon tablenacical choir is going to sing as well and a lot of people her in michigan knows who they are and has herd about them. so we are hoping for around 300 or 400 people to be their or even more. well this friday the stevens from greenville is going to take us out for lunch somewhere i forgot where they was going to take us. but it is somewhere by are apartment thats all i know.

well now some about the mission news. well the Mclains got baptized up in greenville and i was their for it and it went really good. they was a few non members their that was family and friends of theirs. well here in grand vally we have 5 people with a baptismal date for a goal to work towards but we will have a pushed some of them back cause we have not seen them in the past week or so, we are guessing cause it was a holiday week and weekend so they was not home but we are hoping this week. we have a a busy week in front of us. first off tommorow(tuesday) we have trade offs with big rapids and thats where they distrect leader is and so he is coming down here for the day to be with me here in grand vally. and we have a few apointments that day as well so it is going to be good. then on wedensday we have distrect meeting up in big rapids and that is a hour away from grand rapids. good thing i like driving and it is a stright shot up their not like driving from rexburg to the vally or back lol haha. we just have to hope on the highway and the way we go. but then the rest of the week we have a few other apointments as well. me and elder Kohler we get around 9 lessons everyweek but this week we will polly get around 15 lessons cause we called a few less actives that has not been to church in a long time for us to got and see. and are distrect leader told us to see the people that we have baptismal dates with to see then twice a week. and the members here in the grand vally ward is helping out a lot with missionary work it is picking up a lot. we are having members come out with us almost everyday and sometimes for dinner apointment they bring their friends over as well that they have talked to them about are church. well transfers are coming up on the 9th of next mouth but most likey we will stay together cause the mission president wants the missionaries to stay longer in the ares and to work with the ward members a lot more as well. and elder kohler got here in grand vally about 2 mouths ago. but thats all for the mission news anyway and all for now as well but letters will come soon and hope to hear from everyone soon. love ya

elder webster

Thanksgiving Week

hello everyone,

well it is thanksgiving this week. you all known what that means good food lol. we are going over to a members house for thanksgiving around 1 that day for dinner and we might be having another one that night but who knows. well i have some way good news, if you remember me talking about the McClain's from Greenville they are getting baptized this coming Saturday at 3 pm in Greenville and i get to go back for it. and they said if i cant find a ride that the bishop will come down from Greenville and pick us up. and i was talking with the steven yesterday(Sunday) on the phone and they are going to come to the church on Saturday to come and see me and my companion and they said that they are going to take us out to eat on the 2nd of next mouth somewhere here in Grand Rapids as well. with thanksgiving coming up are district is going to be having a big thanksgiving lunch in Greenville somewhere cause that is where we are going to have district meeting this Wednesday. are district might have a Christmas party but we don't know yet we polly wont know tell next transfer. if we do have a little party it is going to be on a Wednesday after district meeting.

well i don't know if i told you this or not but we had a general authority here last week his name was elder Nash he is in the 70. we had a half mission zone conference for it and it went really good. he talked a lot on using members in during the lessons and how we can use them as well. Well after words the mission president came up to me and told me that i am going to be in a leadership position sometime here soon in my mission, so i told him ok sounds good. and if i do become in the leadership spot in the mission like a district leader i get a full time car YYYYYAAAAAA! lol. but i don't know when that is going to be ether. we have training meeting for all missionaries coming up on the 29th and 30th of this month and all of the missionaries have to be their from the Grand Rapids zone and the Kalamazoo Zone which is south of Grand Rapids. and so polly some of the missionaries from the other zone will be staying in the grand rapids zone somewhere. and on the 30th we are only have a half day training cause the other half we are having for a Christmas party with everyone, so it is going to be a good day. don't worry mom i will get a picture with my coat on when it gets really cold don't worry it has not been that cold to put the inner layer and the outer layer on at the same time. when they send the package they will leave a notice in the mailship that we have and they will take it to the apartment office ad i can go and pick it up later on that day. cause we can get the mail any time from 12:30 to 3:30 in the afternoon so who knows when we will get it. if you are going to send any packages from you guys i would polly wait tell after transfers cause we cant take that much with us if we do get transferred but most likey we will polly stay together here in Grand Vally cause we have been doing good work for this area. Grand Vally has not had a baptism for over a year now. and we have 5 people with a baptismal date: 1 for the 3rd of next mouth, 2 for the 10 of next mouth and, 2 for the 17th of next mouth. and the other ward that goes to are building they have 2 sets of elders and they have 2 or 3 baptisms coming up as well so we are going to invite are investigators to their services for they know what is going to happened for when it is their time to get baptized. and they are going to do the same when we have baptisms as well.

but that's all for now that i can think off. time is just going by a little to fast these days if i say so myself lol. but hope everyone will have a good week, hope to hear from EVERYONE SOON.

Elder Webster

Feeling like Home

hello everyone,

well it is getting colder outside here in Michigan now but no snow yet. well we did have it for a few hours last wedensday. i was on trade offs with the Disrect leaders companion up in big rapids and when we was on are way back on thursday morning it was snowing and the distrect leaders companion was driving and he is a scary driver, o well i cant speak much about that but i have not been pulled over in a long time and it is a good thing lol. knock on wood. well come this winter here in michigan is going to be crazy but people say that the michigan winters are bad but elder Kohler saids that idaho is worse. so we will have to see how it goes. o here in Grand Vally their a member that is from idaho and guess what he is a idaho license plate on his turck that he has. so i am going to take a pic of it with me by it and send it one of these times. o we have elder Nash coming to the mission on friday and saturday of this week so we are having a big half mission Zone conference type thing and it is here in Grand Rapids. so we dont have to go far for it which is good ya. by the way Chris HAPPY BRITHDAY buddie love ya hope you have a good brithday. thank you for the hot cholate it is going to be used this winter for sure. and the jurkey is already gone i ate it that night cause i was hungry and i didnt want to cook anything so i had some of the jurkey. o when the bishop sends the package to me just tell him to send it to where i am staying at cause the mission office was having trouble last week all of their computers and phones was down for a few days so hopefully today(monday) they will be back up.

well ok mission work now. well we had distrect meeting here in Grand Rapids last wedensday and we had trade offs with the distrect leader so i went with his companion back up to big rapids. boy was that a long day. when we got back their we went and walked around the collage that they have their it is like BYU-I up their in Big Rapids, so thats all they do is working on campus which is ok but it was cold. well here in Grand Vally are busy days are on friday and saturday and we dont know why on friday but it seems like thats when everyone can meet with us but i guess that is a good thing thou. monday we had a dinner apointment with a members and their family. the husbend is the young men president but when we was over their for dinner they have a pig pong table and the wife plays it a lot and she is really good. so elder Kohler played her and wow she is good and they invited us back to come and play again on are p-days so we are going to do that. on tuesday we was going to go and meet up with a person that we had a return apointment with and they told us that they didnt want to meet with us so their was somemore people that live in that house and they told us that they would love to meet with us so we asked if they had time and we told them about are church and invited them to be baptized and they said yes so we set a date with them for the 10 of december and they said ok. so now we have 5 people with a baptism date but we are going to have to move some of the dates back a few weeks cause we cant get a hold of them right now which is not good. so if you cant tell heavenly father works in different ways for different people. o here in Grand Rapids us the Grand Vally ward and the Grand Rapids word is doing a chrismans devo from the 1st Presidence chrismens messgae on the first sunday of december and it is at 8 pm our time so polly will be around 6pm your guys time. so we are going to invited all of are investigators to it and the mormon tableernackel choir is going to be singing and a lot of people knows about the choir that we have in Salt Lake City. but before that we are going to have a dessert party with everyone then watch the broadcast. we have dinners all this week but saturday with members which is ok with me and we have dinners all next week as well but saturday so we are getting feed which is good. o how was the missionaries that came to the door mom and dad. but thats all for now hope to hear from everyone soon ether in letters or in email. love ya

elder Webster 

hello everyone,

how is everyone doing? it is getting colder here in Michigan i had to go and get a new winter coat and boy i have only used the outer part on it and it is warm and it only cost 75 bucks for it. at nights it is getting around 15 dregees but during the day time it has warmed up to around 50 somedays crazy weather i tell ya. o well what can you do it is like idaho weather. well mom i dont know if you got my letter or not but it has the address for grand vally on their. well here in Grand Vally if we dont have a car wow it is crazy we have to ride the bus around town tell it trops us off by a spot where one of are apointments are at and sometimes it is fall away. so far since i have been here we have polly walked around 20 miles since tuesday and boy are my legs and feet tried.

elder Kohler and i have been really busy here in Grand Vally. sometimes we have not got home tell after 9 pm and those are long days. here in Grand Vally their is already 4 people with a baptism date and i talked to the Mclains sunday after church and Jonny Mclain has the church court on wedensday and from their it is has to go to the stake President then to salt lake city and then we have to wait for it to come back so it may not be tell the end of the mouth tell he gets baptised or ether tell the 1st part of januray but everyone wants it to be the end of this mouth. and i talked to the Assitends and they said if we can get a ride up their i can go to it which will be sweet cause they really want me to be their. they said that if they have to they will come and pick me up to come to it thats how bad they want me to be their. well when we dont have to car here in Grand Vally we have to plan around the times for the bus pickups, luckerly we have a bus pickup right by are aparmtment complax so it is not to bad. I have not met up with any of the investigators that has the baptism dates yet but hopefully this coming week we will be able to meet up with them. The ward is a good size ward but not to big if i would have to guess on how many people their is that comes each week polly around 150 people. in are area for Grand Vally we cover from a little bit of down town Grand Rapids all the way up to a small town called sparta and sparta is next to the Greenville area. and their is some members that live up in sparta and so we are going to be going up to sparta on friday for a dinner apointment. o we are having a 70 coming though are mission on the 18th of this mouth so we are going to be having a big half mission Zone Conference that day and we are soo lucky it is going to be here in Grand Rapids at the stake center which is only 10 mins away from where we live. The 70's name is elder Nash i dont know where he is from, but he is in the mission Distrect back in Salt lake city. we also are having a mission training as well at the stake center here in Grand Rapids on the 29th and 30th as well from 9 to 4 both days. and the mission President wants all missionaries their for it.

I dont really remember elder Kohler from baseball cause he was the cacther for Hillcrest and he only played his fresmen year for them. so just incase everyone forgot that the mission office is going to be moving this tuesday and wedensday to a new location and here in the address for ya. so let everyone know about the new address. so what has been going on in rexburg, and in the teton vally. we dont have nay snow yet but knocked on wood lol. o get this in Greenville a lot of people like Michigan state football and now here in Grand Vally a lot of people like the Michigan(the blue team). the address for the Grand Vally apartment will be at the bottom of the email as well for everyone to have. but thats all for now hope to hear from everyone soon. have a good week love ya

elder Webster

Michigan Lansing Mission

1400 Abbott Road, Suite 310
East Lansing, MI 48823

elder joseph webster

3165 riverview Dr. NW apt A1

Grand Rapids, MI 49544

Transfers

hello,

well first off i am getting transfered down to Grand Vally it is right above Grand Rapids it is only a 30 min drive from Greenville. i am going to be with elder Korher he is from Ammon, IDaho so not to far away from rexburg. He went to Skyline high school and he granduated the same year i did from high school. and i talked to the Assitends to the mission President about the Mclains and they said since i am only 30 mins away from Greenville that i can come back for the baptisms which is good. o we got a email from the mission office and they are moving and so here is the new address for everyone and i do know the address of where i am going, but i dont have it on me i forgot to grap the paper i wrote it down on. and it is a big town and it is a big ward. their is a post office their and a lot of stores also. we are going to be living in a apartment. we are in the same distrect as Greenville is so we might be going to Greenville sometimes for Distrect meeting if not down in Grand Rapids at the Stake center.

Michigan Lansing Mission
1400 Abbott Road, Suite 310
East Lansing, MI 48823

ya we are going trick or treating tonight with them and another family in Belding and we are going to be dressing up as missionaries lol. we are going around 6 pm tonight and so i have to make sure all of my stuff is packed and ready to go for tommorow, we are having brother Longtin coming and picking us up in the morning and he is taking us out to breakfast then taking us to the stake center for transfers. ya mom i dont know about the care packages ya food is always good for us missionaries and same with toilet paper, socks, and winter stuff as well. o i need some new shoes so i am going to be going and getting some next week when i am down in Grand Vally. and i also need a new winter coat cause i dont know what happed to the inside on mine. so i was thinking mom if you just want to put in my accout that would me good then i can go out and buy one and i wont have to wait for it to get sent to me. i have my boats but i dont think we can have sownpants but i can asked on tuesday when i talked to the assitents at transfers. my white shirts are their i do need some new ones. umm i dont know about chrismans yet i will let you know thou here in the next few weeks if that helps. i did let the Mclains and the Kavanughs know about me getting transfered and i can keep in touch with them as well which is good. ya it is getting way good on sunday when we got a ride to church it was in the low 20's when we woke up but it warmed up to 32 but still it is getting COLD outside and i am not looking forward to it. o well.

well this past week as been the slowest that Greenville as seen in a very long time but o well. This past Wedensday we had distrect meeting down in Grand Rapids and the Zone Leaders was their so it was good. we all went out for lunch afterwords at MickyD's then we got a ride back from are Bishop but he was late picking us up from the stake center and so we was late for a few apointment but we called them to let them know and they was fine with it. Other then that we got the call on Friday around 1030 in the morning and so it was good. and i called Grand Vally just to talk with them around noon and they said that they have 2 baptisms coming up here in a few weeks but then i called them later that night after 930 pm and they have 2 more dates with people so i am going in a place that has been really good for baptisms. Grand Vally and Greenville is the 2 of the best places in the mission right now for baptisms which is good. Well the next day we went down to the community center and talked to a few poeple cause their was a frae market going on their from 9 to 3pm and so we got their around 1 pm and we stayed and helped taked it down and we had to help put up for a wedding reception and also a funeal down starits and their was only 4 of us doing that. and the wedding the the funeal both started at 5 so we was was busy setting up for the both of them and getting everything ready. Elder Robles new companion is going to be elder Meng and no he is not from China lol he has only been out for 4 and a half mouths in his mission and Greenville will be his 2nd area he has been up in the U.P. I have only been in the Grand Vally apartment for a few mins everytime we are their when the whole mission got new beds we had their with us so we went and took them to their apartment so i know what it looks like. and Grand Vally and Greenville is on a car rotation so Greenville dosent have a car right now tell tuseday and then they get the car so i will be walking for 2 weeks which i guess wont be bad. so when you write to me let everyone know the address all of the family and friends as well. but hope to hear from you soon got a few other people to email love ya

elder Webster

October 24, 2011

hello everyone,

well this coming Friday is when we find out about transfer, we will be getting the call ether from the Zone Leaders, if we get a call from them it will be from 8 in the morning tell 9 sometime and it means we are staying together for another transfer. If we get a call from are mission President it will be from 9 in the morning tell sometime around 1 or 2 just really all depends. but it means that one of us are going to be leaving the area. and then next week is transfer just all depends on where you are going is when you are getting transferred. wow Madison won that is like a basketball score 75 to 52 where was the defense at. i wonder what everyone was thinking when it went up that high, that's just crazy. dang maybe next year Madison can make it to the playoffs. ya we hear about the sports all the time from a few members if not people tell us at the door when we go door knocking. i miss Rupes that is a good place to eat at, are they still trying to come to rexburg? what kind of job is Eric trying to get? i know when i went out to go and get the mail i was like wow that is a heavy package i was like what could be in here. and i opened it up and i was like Potatoes and they was even from Idaho i was like wow thanks mom. ya sometimes we don't have dinner tell around 8 in the evening as well cause when we don't have dinner appointment we just don't go back to are apartment tell 8 that night and then have dinner. but when we do have dinner appointments we have then around 5 or 6 with the members when they feed us. when did Horkleys change their name and why did someone buy it from them. but it still will be known as Horkleys though. ya i didn't get the pic sorry.

Mission work is going good it is picking up a little bit and slow but it is getting their. we picked up a few new people that we are teaching now, which is good. This week has gone by fast, elder Robles is doing alright he doesn't feel good today and same with me we both think it is something we ate on Saturday we know it was not yesterday cause what we ate was really good, a member feed us. but he has a bad headache and a stomache ache as well. we had apartment check last Saturday the 22nd someone from the mission office came and check are apartment and we passed ya but we just have to do a few things. Well Trade offs was good it could of gone better o well things happen that's why we have trade offs for we can get better as missionaries. The Investigators are doing good now we still have not herd on any news about the McLains maybe when we go over their they will tell us if they herd anything. he really wants me to be their for it and same with elder Dearden. but he did tell us on Sunday at church it might be only a couple of weeks but he was not sure if it is for the church chort or for the baptism he wasn't sure he still needed to talk to the bishop about that. none that has a baptismal date yet but hopefully here soon we will. we only get a car for a week so we did get it but only tell Wednesday and that's district meeting and we are going to have the Zone Leaders their for it and hopefully it is going to be here in Greenville that way we don't have to travel anywhere and it is in the middle of the areas as well. The Stevens is going good sister Stevens she is good like always the family haven't been out to church yet every weekend they always have someone over to spent the night. The Kavanughes we have not been able to get out their at all and they have not been out to church. This transfer we have only been at are church every other week cause of Stake Conference and General Conference and so it has been really crazy with everything. well hope everything is going good that's all for now. glad to hear from everyone. love ya

Elder Webster

October 17th

hello everyone,

well first off Transfers are coming up again and they can be ether on the 31st of this mouth or on the 1st of next mouth just all depends on where you are going. If transfers are on the 31st that means that you are going up north somewhere in Michigan and if they are on the 1st of next mouth that means that you are ether staying in the zone(stake) that you are in or staying down south of Michigan. that reason for the 2 day transfer is cause when they take the missionaries that are going up north is cause they have to leave around 6 in the morning from Lansing to get to the middle of the state and then that is where they are dropped off. next we had Interviews on last Saturday with the mission President, President Hess in Grand Rapids so we had district meeting that day as well which was ok with me. well i was the first one to go for interviews and i was talking with him for over 15 mins in the interview about a few things and everything that has been going on with me and elder Robles. then earlier in the week we got a phone call from a past investigator that elder Robles was teaching in a different area about someone that he baptized. the person that he baptized past away earlier in the week and the services was on Saturday as well so we got to go to that cause it was down in Grand Rapids and boy was Saturday a long day for us. we was down in Grand Rapids from 8:30 in the morning tell 5:30 that evening. well Wednesday we had 7 appointment and we was only able to teach 2 lessons but we still had dinner with the stones but we didn't share a message with them cause the bishop came and so he took us home cause he was going that way and it saved a trip for Jason stone and gas for him as well. the 2 appointment that we had was with 1 investigator and a less active lady in the ward. we was able to visit with another investigator but that it so it was a long day that day. but hopefully this next Wednesday we can have a better day cause we have trade offs with a different area. and i am staying in Greenville and the District Leader elder Bready is going to be coming here with me and elder Robles is going to go up to Big Rapids o i was talking with the Zone Leaders on Saturday and i told them that i have been talking to the Assistants and asked them if i can do a trade off with the Zone Leaders and they said maybe they would have to talk with them about that, cause the Zone Leaders does about 10 trade offs a transfers cause they do trade offs with all of the district leaders and also with the new missionaries that has came out in the mission. but other then that the week has been a way slow week for teaching and also finding for some odd reason but we are hoping that this week we can get back into things and have lots of appointments and time for finding as well. well last night i was talking with are district leader on the phone and he got word that their was a emergency transfer in the mission and we lost some elders that was in are district they went to another district and so we have only 6 elders instend if 8 elders o well. and their was 15 areas that was involved with that but we wasn't dang it opps did i say that haha lol. The elder Quorum President is Jason Stone and they do not have any kids at all. they live in Ceder Springs they are the ones that feed us every Wednesday, he works down in Grand Rapids and he makes different designs for a lot of things.

the Kavanugh family came and picked us up on Saturday night from the Stevens but no the Kavanughs live on the other side of Greenville then belding, they live on the north side on greenville closer to where the Zima's live at. but we was able to visit with them while they took us back to are apartment which was good elder Robles finally got to meet him. first thing that Native said was hi of course but what is your first name? and so he told him native and his family call us by are first name but o well. it is not the first time that we have had to say are first name to anyone and it polly wont be the last ether. and we have not set a date with the family yet we are hoping here in a few weeks we will be able to. so the Mclains now we was able to meet with them on Friday and a member came with us and it was the ward mission leader. all we are waiting on for them is the papers still from salt lake city and they are with the stake President which is good and now just the bishop has to get the papers from him and then we can set a baptism Day with them. well stake conference was down in Grand Rapids yesterday(Sunday) and so we was down their for 2 days in a row. but stake conference went good President Hess was their and he spoke and so everyone in the ward but a few cause they was not their knows who he is now. and this is the first stake conference here in this stake but the 2nd one on my mission so far. and most likely i will have 2 more before i come home but who knows. i have not had to speak in church yet but knock on wood lol...

so all of the wood is in for everyone huh? that is good no more cutting word for a while right lol.. I will keep grandma and Grandpa in my prayers for they both can get better tell them that i love them and that heavenly father does as well. ok thanks mom for the letter and i wait for the package with the cloths in their for me. i cant remember the elders name that is from Ammon area i well tell you in a letter and you can let everyone else know as well. once again transfers are going to be ether on the 31st of this mouth or on the 1st of next mouth. wow Madison basketball already wow where has the time gone to. is mikael going to help with the freshmen again do you know? the tigers lost huh dang o well they did pretty good this year but we herd yesterday from a member we was at his house and the loins game was on and they lost o well they cant win every game lol.. but that's all for now got to elder the mission President and a few other people as well hope everyone is doing good, hope to hear from everyone soon.

love ya

elder Webster