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EMERGENCY *MUST READ*

November 9, 2020

What's up!!!! I'm not sure if you all heard, but the elections were this week. We don't watch the news or anything so I received the update when the ENTIRE city went out onto the streets with cowbells, trumpets, frying pans, and other noisemakers to celebrate. It was crazy. New York is very very very blue. That's all I will say.


I emailed President Teuscher about my concerns with my companion's obedience, and he said "I will see what I can do". Well he actually did a LOT to help! He made a whole PowerPoint presentation on obedience and shared it in a mission-wide devotional. We also had a mission leadership meeting in Queens this week and had a big discussion about how to help the 27 new incoming missionaries be obedient... the answer: WE ARE OBEDIENT OURSELVES. We made plans to do a 40 day fast as a mission from EVERYTHING we may cut corners on when it comes to rules. Anyway, I feel like my emails to President sparked a big mission-wide focus on obedience and I am glad I am able to help my companion, and hopefully other missionaries! I have seen improvements in our companionship which I am SO GRATEFUL FOR!

In my interview with President, he told me what his plans are for Harlem at the next transfer, which includes me having a new companion. He even told me WHO my new companion will be! I don't know why he told me so early because now I have all this information I can't do anything with but at least I know what's coming! So stay tuned for that.

We figured out a new way to get people to talk to us on Facebook! All you have to do is message them and say "CALL ME, ITS AN EMERGENCY" with some police siren and ambulance emojis haha. Sometimes they call us in a panic and we calm them down with a scripture. Haha, not the most effective way to find people to teach, but we thought we would experiment and see how it would work. I don't recommend it. But making it the subject of this email probably got a few extra people to read this so... gotcha.

Anyway, the work is going pretty well I think. We have some awesome people to teach but our biggest problem is that since our area covers all of Manhattan, a lot of the people we teach live far away from the chapel, and it is hard getting them to come to 9 AM church, especially because the subway schedule changes on the weekends for maintenance and no one knows which trains they can take. We miss the convenience of online church haha but thats okay.

Do yourself a favor and read from the Book of Mormon today! You won't regret it. Here's a sneak peek of what you might find in there:

Mosiah 7:33- "But if ye will turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with all diligence of mind, if ye do this, he will, according to his own will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage."

Adios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elder Webster

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