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SNOW STORM IN NYC

December 21, 2020

 HELLO EMAIL SQUAD!! This week was FIRE despite it being quite literally the opposite of fire, since we got snowed on a bunch! I think we got a little less than a foot of snow here in Harlem. I was in HEAVEN! We went down to Central Park for exercise time and threw snowballs and made snow angels. I felt like I was in that one scene from Elf haha.


I've said it before and I am going to say it again. I LOVE HARLEM! I seriously never want to leave! The ward, the food, the buildings, the people we teach, it's all so great! I could write a whole novel just about the members here, but for the sake of time, you will just have to take my word for it. They are the best.

Yesterday at church, a member of the ward in Queens that I served in, Hermana Cruz, showed up with her whole family to our ward to be there for a baby blessing. I WAS SO CAUGHT OFF GUARD but it totally made my whole week! I love them and miss them so much! I got major flashbacks too haha.

I love all the people we teach, but Alejandro (he also goes by Juan so I never know what to call him) is literally an angel! We set his baptismal date for January 16th and it is looking pretty likely it will happen! We made a little Christmas tree ornament for him haha and we posted a picture of it, and he loved it so much! He keeps posting pictures of The Book of Mormon and told us he called some of his friends to teach them about it! He has HIS OWN teaching pool! He even made a collage of pictures of Elder Wooley and I, The Book of Mormon, and Santa Claus and set it as his cover photo on Facebook. I will attach a screenshot of it into this email because it is just SO awesome! WE. LOVE. JUAN!

We had in person zone conference this week and President Teuscher laid some deep doctrine on us about who Jesus Christ was before he was born, and what happened in the premortal life that made him become our Savior. It was so super amazing! I also got to join the Bermuda district council online and give a little spiritual thought. I never thought I would ever be involved with Bermuda, but here I am haha. That's all my updates for this week! Love you all, and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Elder Webster

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