Skip to main content

Making Mischievous Missionary Make Meaningful Multimedia Messages to Many Mates

July 20, 2020

Hello everyone!!!

This week honestly felt really slow. Not too much happened other than the transfer call on Saturday. I am staying here in Olmstead for 6 more weeks to finish training Elder Chavez, and I am continuing as District Leader. So, nothing new. But, all the missionaries that are staying in my district are becoming trainers!! So now the district is just full of people that don't know what they are doing, which is fun.

I have a story I want to tell but it requires some background information. So, I haven't written much about this because I don't want to talk negatively, but for the purpose of the story I want to share, I have to preface with the fact that Elder Chavez is not... the best missionary. I won't go into detail, but his desire to be obedient is not very high, and I have been working so so so hard to try to whip him into shape. One thing he struggles with is Facebook. I noticed he has been checking up on what his friends from home are posting, adding friends from home, and just kind of... not using Facebook for missionary work. One day I said, "Why do you keep looking at your friends from back home?", and he said "Uhh... well... I'm not going to wait 2 years to share the gospel with them!". I could tell that his motives for checking up on his home life were not actually to share the gospel. So, in an attempt to try and teach him the PURPOSE of us using Facebook, I said "You're right. Why wait 2 years? You should send all those friends a message right now and share your testimony with them!"

He was not excited about that idea and did not want to do it. But me, trying to teach him that EVERYTHING we do should help us achieve our purpose of inviting others to come unto Christ, made him do it anyway. I didn't want to be too harsh on him, so I did it first to show him that it's not scary. I messaged a nonmember friend from home and brought up the gospel. I am not sure if that is allowed, but for the sake of teaching Elder Chavez that we ONLY use Facebook to do missionary work, I felt like it was justified. The friend that I messaged didn't answer me, so I probably just ruined our whole friendship haha. But honestly, if it helps Elder Chavez learn how to be a better missionary, I don't even mind. I made Elder Chavez go through and message all his friends and share the gospel with them haha. Hopefully he learned something from that experience.

We are teaching a guy named Nazareth and he seems golden! We found him about a week ago, and he has already gone to church twice, read half of 1 Nephi, given us 9 referrals, he already has friends in the ward, and he committed to be baptized without even hesitating! He is super cool!

That's all my updates for this week! Adios!

Elder Webster

P.S. Shoutout to my brother, Jordan, for the email subject.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Transition

 July 5, 2021 This week was President and Sister Holme's first week as our mission presidents! I've been super nervous about this week for the past 3 months, praying, fasting, and staying up too late thinking about all the things I would need to do as their assistant to help them the best I can. Well, this week turned out to be one of the BEST weeks of my life! It was absolutely amazing! As I explain some of the awesome opportunities I had this week, KEEP IN MIND we worked SO hard this week. Harder than ever before. It wasn't all just fun and games like it might sound haha.  First of all, I attended the transition dinner between the Teuschers and the Holmes, and it was really fun just hanging out and joking around with everyone. The Teuschers surprised me, Elder Money, and President Holmes with matching "unity ties". They have little boat steering wheels on them to basically say "you guys are in charge now". I am so so soooo grateful for that whole exper...
Post a Comment
Read more

Fireworks or Gunshots?

October 16, 2019 I feel like I am in an episode of Naked and Afraid. Except I'm not naked, I am just afraid. Haha just kidding, but I do feel like I am on survival mode, because we made popcorn in the drying machine because our house doesnt have a microwave. My district also likes playing a game that we like to call, "Fireworks or gunshots". Every night we hear loud bangs, and most of the time it is fireworks. But sometimes, it sounds more like a gunshot, and then we usually hear police sirens afterwards. So we all make guesses on if its a firework, or if someone got shot. Kinda sketchy, but theres not very many other games we can play haha. The CCM is starting to grow on me! Its literally prison but I am used to it. I am on week 3 of 6, so I am halfway done! The first 2 weeks were really, really hard, but I think I have adjusted to the lifestyle by now, and warmed up to everybody. But staying inside the classroom all day, everyday is driving me crazy! I am counting down...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Great Wall of White Plains

March 22, 2021   ¿CÓMO ESTÁN TODOS? ITS ELDER WEBSTER BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH ANOTHER EMAIL! I don't have lots of time today, so I will try to be quick! I had my AP exchange with Elder Walters. It was fire.   I had my interview with President Teuscher. That was also fire. Elder Weller is finding like 8 new people to teach every week just from English class, so I requested an exchange with him to learn how he does it! I learned A LOT and our next couple days are already packed full of 1st lessons with people! I went on another exchange with Elder Martin (wow I go on so many exchanges). That was also fire. We invited 4 people to be baptized (Brayan, Doris, Milly, and Iker), and all of them said YES, but none of them felt ready to commit to a date yet, because they feel like they still need to learn more first. That is okay, at least we know that they are willing, and they know our intentions! Please pray for them to feel ready soon! The CUTEST little girl that I used to teach...
Post a Comment
Read more