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November 16, 2020

WHAT IS UP WEEKLY EMAIL SQUAD?! It's me, Elder Webster, back at it again with another live update!!

Okay, maybe not a "live" update, because my first story starts a week ago from today. On Monday night I got a call from Sister Teuscher and she asked me to give a training to the WHOLE mission on how to find people to teach through personal Facebook accounts, and how I come up with content ideas. Well I made a little PowerPoint presentation and I think it turned out pretty well despite me being SUPER nervous. President recorded it over zoom and is going to put it on our mission google drive folder, so anybody can go back and watch it for their companionship studies. The rest of the week, Facebook was FLOODED with missionaries making posts based off of ideas I recommended haha, it was crazy. 

We found some really solid people to teach this week (from Facebook!!) and I think we can invite one of them, Mari, to be baptized soon because she is so amazing. She cried when we taught her the restoration because she has been "searching" for this her whole life, and she gave the Book of Mormon a big hug when we gave it to her. We were also able to commit our other friend, Carlos, to be baptized on December 26th and he had a great experience at church this week! Yayyyyy!

Other things you probably don't care about but I am going to tell you about anyways:

- Our recent convert, Luis, got the priesthood yesterday! It was so awesome seeing the ward sustain him and everything. Missionary work is the best!

- I learned how to say "We are missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" in sign language!

- This week was like the PRIME time for Fall. The leaves were different colors EVERY SINGLE DAY and almost all the trees are naked now. I have never seen Fall in my life (last year I just saw the very end of it). Fall is SOOO SICK did you guys know??????

-  We are supposed to be helping members get involved in sharing the gospel online, so we threw a little Instagram party at the church for some of the youth and gave a lil presentation. We taught them how to do online missionary work and had them follow us, share some of our posts, helped them make their own posts, and then we played a few games. It was super fun!

- I went on 3 exchanges this week with Elder Flores, Elder Goodworth, and Elder Garcia (the AP). It was lit.

- Manhattan has the best pizza!

Have a FANTASTIC week!

Elder Webster

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