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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

Being Prepared

hey everyone,

well its my birthday coming up on monday the 1st of August. how is everyone doing? so how did the webster reunion go and where was it at this year? tell everyone hi for me as well. well this past week was a crazy week. We have been busy and it has been a long week with nothing to do on somedays and a lot to do on the other days. to start off with yesturday(friday) we was at the Greenville Area Community Center helping out with serivce and out of the blue are phone goes off. we was like who could that be and then we saw and it was the mission president calling us, President Hess. he was calling us cause he was only 15 mins away and wanted to see us and to talk to us and see how things was going. well on top of that are apartment was not clean and we had no car and we was 2 miles away from are apartment so we was runnung as fast as we could to get back to the apartment to clean it up well he beat us their and so we went in and he looked at are apartment and took a look around and then we was talking for about 30 to 45 mins about stuff. and on top of that we was in are service cloths and not in are shirt and ties. well this past week has been a long week with everything going on. on wed we had distrect meeting here in greenville and we found out that the Zoin leaders was coming and no one knew tell they called us at 7 in the morning to find out what the churchs address was. but then we had trade offs and i stayed in greenville with the distrect leader, elder Bready. and we had a good day and we also went door nocking for a little bit but while we was door nocking it started to ran on us and so we kept going cause where we was door nocking we was by are dinner apointment, and are dinner apointment was at 5:30. so we was door nocking tell then well when we went inside it stop raining, then after the apointment we cointue to door nock where we stoped at. and when we went outside side and when we hit the 2nd door the rain came down so hard it was not even funny we was so wet. so then we went walked back are dinner apointment and asked for a ride to are apartment and they gave us one. and when we got back to are apartment it was still down pulling rain and we took a vedio. Elder Bready said that this rain strom has been the longest one and the wroste rain strom that he has seen here in Michigan. and we took some pics as well.

well we have a baptism today(saturday) at 4 pm and right noe it is 12:30 and we have to be at the church at 1 to start to fill up the font cause it takes 3 hours to fill it up. the person that is getting baptised her name is Judy Lafferty and her mom is a member and same with her daughter and her sister and brothers are to. so she is the only one that is not a member but her husbend is not a member but he doesnt want anything to do with are church. whenever we go and teach Judy he went in the other room and watched tv or went outside. ya Elder Dearden he started to teach her when he first got here to Greenville. but me and Elder Dearden we was the ones that set the date with her. well we have a family in the ward named the Zima's and they have a non member family that came to the 24th ward pickneck that we had last week. and they want to learn more about are church and in the family they have 11 kids so their is 13 of them altogether. but first the dad and mom want to learn more beofre they get their kids to learn more so the Zima's(members) they are inviting them to dinner next saturday and we are going to teach them a lesson and more about the gosbel. so this past week has been a long week here in greenville and transfers are coming up again we get a call on friday August 5th to see whats going on and to see where we are going to be going. Elder Dearden thinks he is going to be leaving and that i am going to get a new companion but who knows. but i will let you know next week when we find out. but got to go and get the stuff ready for the baptism today(saturday) talk to everyone later.

elder webster

July 23, 2011

hey everyone

well i am coming up on being out on a mission for 6 mouths now. coming up on August 2nd. so how is everyone doing? me and elder Dearden are doing good we are surving the way hot weather. this past week the weather has been in the 90's and then on top of that the humid as been close to 100 so it feels like 115 to 120 degress outside. well on wedensday we had interviews with the new mission president Hess. then we had distrect meeting and the interviews went good and while one of the compaion was getting interviewed the other copmaion was with sister Hess, cause she was getting to now all of us missionaries. then after all of that was done with we was in a town called Ceder Springs the rest of the day and we was door nocking and we went up to this house and their was a teenager around 18 we was guessing and he seemed interrested of learning more, but right before we was going to asked him when we could come back his mom came up and asked what church we are from and we told her then she shamed the door in are face. but we was door nocking for 2 hours that day cause we didnt have anything else to do and Ceder Springs is 30 mins away from Greenville, so we didnt want to drive back to Greenville and drive back to Ceder Springs. we have the car tell wedensday then we have to give it up to the Grand vally elders, so we wont have a car for a week which wont be to bad i hope anyway. are area in Greenville is the biggest in the stake right now and i dont know why ether from bottom to top it is over 60 miles long. and from west to east it is over 70 miles long that way so we have a good size area. We still have a baptism for the 30th we have to get a interview for her on wedensday when the distrect leader is here on a trade off with me. well on thursday we did about 2 hours of service for a few people. then we went over to a members house and had dinner and then we was their for the rest of the evening hanging out with them and playing cards. today(saturday) we had a ward pickneck for the 24th and some people slept over night last night(friday) but we had a lunch and a lot of games. their was hose shones and a few more it was a good turn out. Ya the Stevens family live in Belding. their is a swich away son with the dad in the Stevens family. he was baptized when he was in his teens then slat lake lost his reconds and he has had the lessons 3 or 4 times but he has to talk with the bishop about a few things and everything and i dont know when he wants to get baptized cause it is up to the person when they want to, we just set the date and it is up to them.

well thats good that the drive way is good, ya i thought i told mikeal that are road was a busy road. but o well, i have not got a letter from him yet. and thanks for the pics and and the package. the sim card is going to be coming in the mail this next week in chelle's letter. Ya i have not got a letter yet from ya it you send it out yesturday(friday) it wont be here tell tuesday or wedensday. and the same with packages as well. sounds like you are going to have a good job in the temple. elder Dearden's birthday i dont know but i think it is around december sometime cause thats when her entered the MTC. He came out in the mission when Chris Dustin went home. dad sounds like you are getting better at golfing and bowling as well. ya when i come home i will need to get all my clubs regribbed for me. but thats it for now letters will be coming soon. i have a few i need to take to the post office that is the only way that we send them out here in Greenville is to take them to the post office. love ya all

love
Elder Webster

Short but Sweet July 16

hey everyone

 

hey how is everyone doing? how is the weather their? i am doing good trying to stay cool. it has been way hot here this past week and today(saturday) as well. this past week it has been a good week and a long week as well. This past week we have been over at a part members familys house for 3 days cause they are way awsome to be with and to hang out with as well. The familys name is the Stevens, there is 3 kids that are living at home and both of the parents as well. and the only one that is not a member is the dad but he did get baptised a long time ago but then they lost the reconds and he has took the lessons like 3 or 4 times and so he just has to do a baptismal date but he has some ?'s about some things as well. one of the ?'s is why do we as members HAVE to go to church every sunday. ya on wed we had distrect meeting up in a town called Big Rapids it is a hour away from greenville and we had to get a ride from a member their then we got a car to come back to greenville with, cause we are on rotaions with 2 other areas. ya when we got the car their was a flat and the missionaryies that had it before us they ran over a nail in the tire on the way up to Big Rapids so it was not their fault so we had to get a patch. but other then that we have had a good week. We had a baptism today and it went really good. their was 15 people there watching it. and we also have a baptism tommorow(sunday) as well. the one tommorow is also part of a part member family as well.

 

Sounds like you was having a good week and sounds like you put mikael to work at the house. Did he have fun at all? ya the package that you send to me mom i have to go and get it from the post office, they put a card in the mail box that we have then we have to go and get it from the post office. since it was closed after 1 today we could not go and get it or else i would of. sounds like everyone is doing good and staying out of trouble. tell Lance hi for me and get his adddress for i can write him and give him me address as well for we can stay in touch while he is on his mission as well. thanks. wow i cant belive that Jameson Rammell is home already wow where did the time go to soon i will be but in the year of 2013 i will. thats good that elder Forsgren is doing better with his compaion and sometimes that is the way to go. sometimes you just have to talk with him and to it face to face. ya sorry this is not a longger email but not much has been going on here in Greenville. but thats all for now hope to hear from everyone soon letters will be coming soon. by the way happy birthday shad and same with you k.j and tell happy birthday to ryan as well.

 

Elder Joseph Webster

Also They just had a baptism today July 16 his name is Chad Edmonds, Then they have a part member baptism tomorrow July 17, and then 1 on July 30th, He forgot to mention that in is email. elder webster is doing good and sounds happy, pictures are coming soon.